Originally Posted by
Gardyloo
Right, that's my point (which I made poorly, evidently.) The lumped-together YQ/YR total in wytco0's fare summary is opaque as to both who did the calculations and what the per-segment charges were. As I said, I suspect the culprit is BA, but the only way to know for sure is to see the actual ticket numbers once issued, so you could see the prefix that indicates the issuing carrier, hence (presumably) who did the numbers (e.g. 001, AA, 125 BA and so on.)
I think I once got a full breakdown from the AA RTW desk but I can't find it now (years ago.) The ticket had been issued by AA's GSA in Cape Town, but the (then Dublin) AA rates desk had done the crunching.
Even after issue, I think it depends on who issued your ticket if you can see a breakdown or not. On my last year's QF issued one, I could still only see the lump sum when I pulled the ticket on the Finnair site (QF site is as hopeless as their CS agents). But I've ran a few different scenarios for my next one for December start this year and I get fairly similar results from CX and QF (haven't tried AA and probably won't because I'll get screwed on the AA segments going revenue vs. distance, I guess if they were magically $1000 cheaper then it'd be ok and I could donate to the AA hotels no-show cause to make up the difference, but that's not going to happen since the total YQ/YR on QF or CX issued is far far less than $1000). I absolutely will not do another QF ticket after the last experience but it's a good data point to compare fees.