Originally Posted by
trasodaa
Thx for your reply! Finnair site does work, and I finally get one proper CX/AY style e-ticket and can ditch the QF one now. Upon checking, my YQ total is 980+1540=2420AUD, YR total is 380+95=475AUD.
I thought QR charges high YQ because it has steep cost when I redeem QR flights via asiamiles, but I now agree with you that IB could be the only reason (Never heard of it, I even tried to avoid LHR to avoid the departure tax but it seems that I am wrong).
Regarding travel insurance fee and YR, my only guess is that I have 2 transits in one ticket point/bundle with different carriers, so that airlines need insurance to cover mis-connection and charge more (I am just making this up, as this is the first time I focus on YR and YQ). Next time, if I make less transits but more stopovers, plus book multiple flights in one bundle under same airline code, would that lower down the insurance fee and YR?
No, the insurance charge isn't coming from that, I do that all the time with different carriers on connections. It's one of the carriers on the itinerary. I heard that JL does charge it on their own segments when they issue the RTW, but they definitely don't charge it on QF or CX issued tickets. So I believe it has to be coming from your IB, BA, or MH segments, but having said that I don't recall anyone else posting this last month that had excessively high airline fees. (You still have an overall good deal, but it's an outlier) I'd just ring up QF and ask them which airline charged it for a good data point in this thread.
BTW if you're curious about what all the airport fees and tax codes are,
this is a really good site, they have almost all of them: The first several are all Egypt.
Also what you pay in surcharges on revenue or redemption flights doesn't calculate the same on a RTW. That ends up depending on the ticketing carrier and point of origin. Each RTW ticketing carrier has a different way to charge YQ on partners and point of origin also matters, for example ex-TYO has no YQ at all (at least on QF and CX tickets), only YR which tends to run in the $300-600 range.