Originally Posted by
izzik
This video is the source of many misconceptions and just irresponsible, in my opinion. RTW fares are not easy to understand, so there is a degree of simplification involved.. but he could at least be accurate.
- He pushes people towards booking on the Oneworld site,
- then says he's never used the site for himself,
- then says the ticketing will be done by the first carrier,
- then says it might be Qantas ticketing regardless of the first carrier,
- then he recommends that people call BA to have them ticket and the price that BA comes back with should be the same as the Oneworld site.
- He says the Oneworld site will flag all sorts of errors
- not because the site is wrong but rather he implies it's user error..
- and that users should just keep trying different flights to get past the errors.
- He equates Global Explorer with Oneworld Explorer, when in fact these are two very different fare products.
- He suggests that users should abuse ExpertFlyer's 5-day free trial by registering with fake email addresses to maintain free access.
I caught all those but IMO they're quite minor errors. It's worth noting that in subsequent videos he ditched the online too as well as ticketing through BA and ended up going wth a British TA, Propeller Travel, who put everything together quickly and accurately for a 100 pound fee.
The point of the video was to describe a way to use Finnair's to get to OWE via a quick RTW (6 or 7 segments.). It wasn't intended to be a guide to Oneworld's products in depth. His itinerary in that video was something like 25K flown miles, so the difference between GlobEx and Oneworld Explorer are minor. In some dummy bookings on the OW tool I've tried to force a DONEX ticket by adding more miles than 34K, and the tool doesn't like it. I would just keep using the AA RTW desk anyway.
Like so many YT videos, Matt's contain inaccuracies, but look at the comments and you'll see that he's providing useful, if not comprehensive, information to the unfamiliar.