Originally Posted by
lizthegrey
Has anyone ever successfully gotten QF9 (PER-LHR) to ticket in business as part of a IGLOB26, DGLOB34, or DONE4? It seems like the OW RTW calculator flat out refuses to consider it for business class, offering routings via SIN, DOH, etc. in business instead, or a downgrade to economy for the direct. ExpertFlyer believes D booking code availability exists but I does not for the days I am searching for that route.
Relatedly, is it correct that IGLOB26 is not offered from US or CA, only from AU, if I had to pick one country of {US,CA,AU} to originate my travel? Not that it saves any money, looks like DGLOB34 is 10899 CAD but IGLOB26 is 12588 AUD which washes out any savings from the lower booking code / shorter mileage. No, not interested in a positioning flight, this is primarily a work trip involving speaking in US/Canada, Australia, Europe and I don't want to faff around in advance of the travel I actually need.
I found my problem. It was a married segment unavailability for PER-LHR-(destination in europe), but there was availability by terminating the sector in LHR and then doing the LHR to intra european segment as a separate item by adding a manual stopover, even without >24 hours spent in LHR.