Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
Regarding the big number for carrier surcharges, not having a breakout by segment is a major problem, but I took it upon myself to use ITA and look up the YQ and YR charges listed for the various segments and carriers on your itinerary. These are shown in the currency of the departing airport, so one needs to change them to Norwegian Kroner to see how the total compares to the NOK 28,002 total on the estimate. And, guess what... the numbers don't add up at all. The total YQ/YR surcharges using he segment-by-segment approach comes to NOK 10,842, of which NOK 8934 is from one segment - BOS-LHR (US$850, the standard YQ charged by all the Oneworld carriers on USA-UK business class segments, whether it's LAX-LHR or BOS-LHR, LAX-MAD, JFK-HEL, you name it.) By comparison, the YQ/YR charged by Oneworld carriers on Canada-Europe business class segments is CA$714.50, or US$536. From the Caribbean it's US$365, from Mexico it's US$400.
Unfortunately for OneWorld Explorer ticket's that method of YQ/YR calculation doesn't work. It's quite a bit different on an Explorer ticket than individual revenue tickets. From my best understanding it's varied quite heavily based on the point of origin of the xONEx ticket and the ticketing carrier, but for example an ex-TYO DONE5 tends to have around 40,000-60,000 JPY in YQ/YR but if you checked the same itinerary on Matrix you'd end up easily with 200,000-300,000 JPY depending on the itinerary. The only way I know to get a full breakdown by carrier is to get a travel agent to run the itinerary for you.