Originally Posted by
headinclouds
The trip is now on AA.COM and tariffs switched me to the AA codeshare ORD-LHR, but left the HKG-LAX flight on CX. The price listed is the correct base fare of 1,003,300 JPY, with taxes of 110,290 JPY, and carrier imposed charges of 32,400 JPY. Taxes seem high while carrier charges seem low. No QR flights for now and no longhaul departures from LHR, so a bit puzzled as to why the taxes are so high. The initial Asia flight taxes come to about $160. Have 5 USA flights and just ORD-LHR open segment CDG-HND. I was expecting about 15-20% above base fare and this is close to that.
You can likely build the same itinerary out on the OneWorld tool online and get an idea about your taxes and fees. It "should" price it being that simple. But you might have to change dates to get F availability. One the very last page after you click review flights it'll allow you to see a detail of your taxes and fees. Carrier surcharges will all be lumped together but taxes will all be broken out so you can see where they are (all in IATA code but you can search Google for them).
I just built one out that's similar but can't do exactly the same, for some reason the OneWorld tool wants to force the last segments onto CX if your first segment is with them. I came up with an itinerary that has 91,440 total in taxes and fees, 48,800 in YQ/YR and the rest in tax.
The massive outliers are:
G3RE - 6,270 JPY - I can't find this one but suspect it's one of Hong Kong's since it's in the list between Japan and Hong Kong
US arrival and departure taxes - 6,100 JPY total
French airport solidarity tax - 7,060 JPY
French passenger service charge - 4,730 JPY
All the others are smaller but adding up to about 42,000 JPY in total. I can't imagine your itinerary has all that much more in taxes, but try building it out and see. It doesn't matter if you have to select Business or First just to get a sample to price out, any countries that have a tax on premium cabin I believe are the same between business and first.
I think the most interesting part of this exercise was learning that an AONE3 prices out almost the same as a DONE5... might have to re-think my Winter travel plans and see if I can consolidate a bit or use miles for some of the side flights I was thinking of that push me from a 3 to a 5.