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Old Oct 1, 2025 | 6:25 am
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littlevoices
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: HKG
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Full route booked (for 4, cost per adult = ~USD7.5k; so a lot of fuel surcharges)
OSL-DOH-HKG // HKG-CMB-SIN-HKG // HKG-AKL-NAN-MEL-HKG // HKG-JFK-ORD-ANC-SEA-DOH-OSL
(Return from another RTW) // 1 week CNY Holiday // 2 week Easter Holiday // 2.5week Summer holiday and return

Other points to note:
  1. In general, even 9 months in advance, Alaska Airlines are very stingy with their D class availability on direct flights out of ANC - Near impossible to get even ANC-SEA, but the moment you do ANC-SEA-LAX or ANC-SEA-DFW, lots more space. This was frustrating as my ambition here was an Alaska visit in July, busy times clearly (maybe not helped with the football world cup)
  2. Continuing problems with Trans-conntential availability remains, over a 5 day period couldn't find a single flight (admittedly I need 4 business tickets) from JFK/BOS to LAX or SFO. In the end I had to accept defeat and do JFK-ORD-ANC, rather than JFK-SFO-ANC that I could find on EF). Maybe they're blocking for the world cup?
  3. No enforcement of AA codeshare across an ocean (all of my US flights were AA or AA codeshare)
  4. I had to do this twice as the first agent (after the HUCA) seemed to be doing a good job, but actually hadn't: She had missed an entire flight out; had one flight taking off before I landed, and misspelt a name (which leads to a restart). The second agent, who I've had before, was great and fixed it all as quickly as possible when I called back ten minutes later after viewing online (the other agent was too keen to get me off)
  5. The ticket cost vs fuel surcharge are wrong and so I'll need to call back when I have the energy (children's fuel surcharges are more than adults, but one adult looks to have paid a child fare). The overall amounts are probably correct, but not how they're split... Edit: Yes, looks like one of the adults was classed as a child when I called, maybe I entered passport details incorrectly, or the agent copy/pasted across. God knows what that means. The fuel surcharges are still the wrong way around too, so it's with AA to decide what to do. I have a horror of having to redo this all again, or splitting the ticket to fix the adult fare. Sigh . Maybe the tip there is: Don't enter passport information until AFTER ticketing.
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