Originally Posted by cmurphy2005

Hello everyone,

I'm researching a DONE4 RTW trip for my honeymoon. I tried to get in contact with Propeller Travel and paid the £50 fee for their RTW planning service, but it's been 10 days and I haven't had a response, so I thought I'd ask for some assistance from this board. Below is our current itinerary, which prices up as 57,959 NOK fare + 19,065 NOK in taxes = 77,024 NOK. I'm trying to figure out a few things:

1. Are there any red flags in terms of code choices that could reduce the taxes a little? Or do codeshares not affect the taxes, only the metal flown? We'd also be interested in taking the Qantas flight SYD-JFK (via AKL) instead of AA, but doing so seems to increase the fees substantially.
2. I'd be aiming to credit to BAEC - should I try to use an agent that will book the AA transpacific / transatlantic legs with a QR, or other, code?
3. Pending the above answers, is the AA RTW desk the best port of call to book this itinerary? I'm unable to book OSL-DOH as the first flight using the OneWorld tool as noted in the wiki etc. We are also going to likely push out the final legs (from ANU-JFK onwards) into 2027, and add another US round trip which I think would be permitted still as segments 15 and 16 (including DPS-SIN as a ground segment).

Really appreciate any guidance anyone can provide - thanks.

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1 QR 176 10SEP OSL DOH
2 QR 962 11SEP DOH DPS

3 QF 54 18SEP SIN BNE

4 QF1592 22SEP BNE HTI
5 QF 579 27SEP HTI SYD

6 QF 728 30SEP SYD AYQ
7 QF 729 02OCT AYQ SYD

8 AA 72 05OCT SYD LAX
9 AA 307 05OCT LAX JFK

10 AA1749 08NOV JFK ANU
11 AA1359 12NOV ANU JFK

12 AA 100 19NOV JFK LHR
13 BA 774 21NOV LHR OSL