Originally Posted by
ojala
We booked our OWE from CAI back in March and we're scheduled to take the first flights in October. The first few flights are ok but after that we'll need to change the dates. There has been a few changes to the existing flights as Qantas has been cancelling domestic flights but we'd reschedule those anyway.
I was just looking at the most recent automatic itinerary that Qantas provided and I was wondering what the NVA/NVB dates actually mean on these tickets? The NVA is 19Mar25 that is one year since booking the ticket. But I'd assume the ticket is valid for a year since the flights flights, correct?
NVB is empty.
Assume that you meant first flights, not flights flights.
But QF has been pretty notorious on this, they tend to claim that they only honor the ticket from 1 year after ticketing, not first flight as its supposed to be. So your time to reschedule is likely much shorter than you are expecting. It's one of the many downsides of ticketing a RTW with QF.
I've done 2 with them so far, and wouldn't necessarily hesitate to do another, but I know what I'm getting into. If you want quick and efficient changes, it's not happening. If you need a lot of re-routes to changed ticketed points, they're painful. But if you have a solid itinerary that you will likely only do date changes on they aren't so bad and have the convenience of working inside the OW online tool. They're also one of the only ones that will ticket an itinerary that they have zero of their own flights on. My preference going forward would be CX but I have to have my first segments on CX to do that which can be wasteful because I never would do a HKG transfer / stopover otherwise. For people who don't care about avoiding AA coded segments, then AA ticketing is definitely the way to go.