Originally Posted by
marcolau317
For this one in particular, putting them into ITA Matrix, I could found fares by splitting the following way - 3 price sets with 4 fares involved, you were lucky when the agent approve this set if the 3 fare limit is there.
SGN-DOH-CMN
CMN-MIA
MIA-LAX-HND-SGN (2 fares in single quote)
Furthermore, they seem to have restricted the itinerary so that RTW with deliberately multiple stopover is almost impossible.
Had you removed CMN stops and go direct to MIA I guess the success rate would be higher as it look more direct from APAC to USA; it may help further by removing the DOH stopover as well...
My US-bound multi carrier reward from HKG with outbound via DOH and inbound via TYO and KUL was approved only on condition that there are no further direct routing from HK to US and JP to HK at the time of booking, and that the DOH and KUL stop MUST be transit only - such notes were left explicitly in the ticket notes.
I definitely think having these insanely long stopovers is causing a major problem here. I would love to go from PNH - DOH - HEL - BCN - CMN - MIA - LAX - HND - SGN - PNH but just not taking the LAX onwards. I'll price everything from LAX onwards in Y class and have the rest will be in business.
I'll keep the stopovers 30 days or less for each of those countries before MIA and I'll still be benefiting a lot as I'm only paying an extra 25k if they price this out in economy. My goal is to get the longest segnment in economy so this whole thing prices out in economy.
Could you actually share the itinerary that got approved for you. Thanks