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Jan 15, 2025 | 9:04 am

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zoombee

Join Date: Mar 2008

Location: London, UK

Programs: BA GGL, AA liftime gold

Posts: 688

Quote:

Originally Posted by checkerboard

I'm a flyer with quite some xONEx under his belt, but haven't ventured out on one for a while now, and my intuition for how to minimize taxes and fees is woefully out of date.

Now thinking of an ex-OSL DONE5 for later in the year - this detail about QR surcharges caught my attention.

For a ticket that will maximize QR, and to a lesser extent, CX, and JL sectors, which ticketing carrier is best these days, to minimize the surcharges involved?

AA-RTW desk would be my normal default (including AA marketed/operated on MIA-GRU), but if carrier imposed charges when ticketing through them really are around $200 a sector for QR, I maybe should consider another option, if a better one exists.

Can anyone here please advise?

The oddity with qr is that they have much lower charges after the first qr segment. So if optimising for charges then either entirely avoid qr or go all in. In your case it sounds like all in (up to 6 segments) sounds best as the per qr segment average is then low.

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