Originally Posted by
40love
Thanks
Thai-Kiwi
I (wrongly?) assumed that if I booked multi-city with the dates like you used above, that I would be charged for 3 separate 1 way journeys?
Are you saying that in some scenarios, leg 2 and leg 3 would be charged the same/similarly to a leg 2 + leg 3 with no "stopover"?
By extension, if I am in Hong Kong and want to go to Jakarta, is there some way I can book a flight that goes through Singapore or Kuala Lumpur or Hanoi or Bangkok, and "stop over" for 2 weeks in that destination before flying on to Jakarta, and essentially pay the same as a HKG-CGK flight? (and if this IS the case, where should I start "digging around"?)
First & second questions - No, generally multi-city uses the furthest point as the 'destination', and so the pricing is on a return basis to that destination, sometimes cheaper or sometimes not. The intermediate sectors may also incur a fee if making a stopover. You need to think about the legs so that some legs are outbound, and some in the return return. And there might not even be a published fare if you get too tricky.
One the third question HKG-CGK with a long stop in BKK/KUL/HAN, this probably isn't available on an NZ fare, so getting off-thread. But certainly you can build that kind of journey - it may or may not be cheaper than just buying one-ways sectors. I have done so many times, mainly using airline websites, but also ITA matrix (a bit like using DOS), google flights (same engine as ITA matrix, but less customisable), skyscanner.net
See the THAI examples below
This is a multi-city construction
This is a one-way fare with a long connection in BKK. Note I can't quickly determine the exact fare class for this fare - THAI makes it tricky
