Originally Posted by
zoombee
It switched to AUD as the tool has decided you should ticket with Qantas. If you search the forums here you will learn this may not be the ideal choice. Generally far better to call the aa rtw desk unless you have a well understood reason to do otherwise.
Availability can indeed vary by POS, you may want to consider a period paid up with expert flyer if you want to search for availability based on this. I've often looked once but did see less Japan and Norway availability (in that case for I class) than other POS options.
Thank!. Just to help me figure out how to evaluate what flights there are for ex-CAI, I had a few more questions if you could kindly help me with them!
- Does EF show availability in D based on the POS being Egypt? I can only see the option for other countries like USA, UK, but not the POS being Egypt on EF for flight availability search
- Presumably the AA RTW agents will see availability based on the POS being Egypt (this allows Qantas to restrict D availability even further for ex-CAI RTW trips?)
- I presume AA can sort out this nonsense QR being the 1st flight bug? Or is the recommendation to use some other airline for the first flight because this is a real issue? I think QR don't offer much D availability for CAI-DOH so I might need to do CAI-AMM-DOH anyway
- What tips are there to cut YQ fees? I've read that BA and IB are terrible for adding these in. Should I avoid them altogether, or just ensure if flying on then, it's marketed as a codeshare? When I did manage to make the online tool work for ex-OSL, the taxes and fees were 20k NOK for a 60k base fare!