Originally Posted by
dvs7310
There's no reason to do that transit in HEL on your outbound, just don't book through the tool and fly it on QR. That's a wasted segment that you can use for something else.
Do you have any interest in Hong Kong or Tokyo, as you mentioned, you have to pay for Asia anyway, so why not use them? You can fly HKG-JFK on CX or HND-JFK on JL (or AA but wouldn't unless it's the absolutely only option). No need for the xLAX segment what way either. That actually gives you one more segment that you can use for another Asian city. Could be somewhere that QF fly to (since CX and / or JL fly to all of those), or anywhere that another OW airline flies to from Australia that also has flights to HKG or TYO (KUL, CMB come to mind), that gives you quite a lot of options for 2x Asia stopovers. JL shouldn't add too much in YQ, I don't think UL does either, but MH or CX might, just have to investigate.
I suspect you have an error in your codes as well, NBE is a relatively unknown airport in Tunisia that's mostly served by LCCs, I think in Tunisia QR only flies to TUN, but that's also Europe for OW Explorer purposes, so probably you want NBO since that's Africa?
Thanks, yes the HEL was just to price this thing properly on the tool for indicative purposes. Hopefully starting with QR doesn't boost the YQ fees much.
Due to timings constraints we would have to do Asia after Australia, will have a look at going via Tokyo! Hopefully not too much YQ, and JL are v nice I've heard.
I meant NBO, typo! Good inference!
Sadly the connections in Africa are quite poor for OW, so would have to do an surface sector if adding something inside Africa itself, and can't visit South Africa or Mauritius itself either, so would look at Seychelles perhaps.
Thanks for the help. Is it best to book via AA RTW, or can a travel agent book earlier than the 330 days (need to secure some high demand dates around New Year's 2025). Any travel agents specialise in this kind of thing?