Originally Posted by
headinclouds
Decided against the ex-CAI xONEx, last one was ex-CAI in 2017 when the EGP devalued overnight and I got my ticket 12 hours before AA stopped selling them.
I have a AONE3 ex-TYO (Asia-N.AM-Europe-Asia) currently being priced by AA RTW's tariff's desk starting March 2024. A couple of quirks while the agent was trying to get A class availability.
1-EF shows A class on the BA codeshare ORD-LHR (AA 7003), yet AA does not see it. So I'm booked on the BA flight number. No big deal for me since I'll credit to BA anyways. AA flight numbers would be better I think.
2-EF shows A class on the JL CDG-HND flight, but no codeshare flight, naturally. But the agent said I had to book the AA codeshare. What? She said that AA can't see A class, but D class. Don't know what going on there.
3-Agent said that base fare was $13K, which is not right. I assume that when tariff's does the actual pricing it will be about $7K base fare. Right? I got no push back for not having AA flights crossing the oceans. Odd?
4-I have booked only the 1st 9 flights. I plan to make changes after I start the RTW. That is when I'll add a couple of QR 1st class flights LHR-DOH-LHR. SInce that will be mid-way thru the RTW, any ideas as to what QR YQ/YR would be since it is only 2 flights?
After all this, maybe book via CX since the 1st flight is HND-HKG. Thoughts?
If you book via CX you are far less likely to get pushback on the codeshares. That seems to be an AA thing from everything I've read on here. I don't even see an AA codeshare on the JL flight CDG-HND, that's just weird.
I think you'd need a travel agent to tell you exactly how much the QR surcharges will be, but based on my last ticket with a lot of QR segments on it and another I'm working on, also with a lot of QR segments on it, it shouldn't be too bad since you're also ex-TYO. I'd guess at very worst in the $200-300 range but doubt it's even that. But you'd have UK APD which is quite a chunk unless you're structuring them as a transit in LHR (example DUB(BA)-LHR(QR)-DOH, in the reverse it doesn't matter since APD is only assessed on departures, not arrivals. I believe ex-LON it's ~$230 now.