Originally Posted by
cmurphy2005
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.
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You seem to confusing real taxes, as paid to government and regulatory authorities, and carrier surcharges (YQ YR). Real taxes are they same for all carriers on the same routes/class of travel. Can/will be different real taxes for stopovers (+24hrs) vs transits
Originally Posted by
DY444
QF are reputed to pile on the charges like they're going out of style so you might want to investigate alternatives for SIN-BNE for example. I don't know anything about other Australian domestic carriers but it might also be worthwhile looking into options with them outside the xONEx ticket for the internal Australia legs rather than using QF.
Domestic airlines in Australia are QF Qantas, VA Virgin Australia, REX and JQ Jetstar (LLC owned by QF). And some very small regional airlines.