Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
Hi, -- I commute 3-4×/year roundtrip between BKK and BOS. I've been using OWEs for well over a decade, but I've just started reading about Circle Pacific fares, which could be significantly less expensive for me. On a very basic level, my understanding is:
- I can use them between SEAsia and North America.
- Both ocean crossings must be TPAC.
- One crossing must be northern, for example JFK/HKG.
- The other crossing must be southern, for example SYD/JFK.
- The fares are mileage-based rather than continent-based.
Have I missed anything significant?
Originally Posted by
anabolism
ex-BKK, a DCIR22 (22k miles) base fare is currently USD 5549.92, a DCIR26 (26k miles) base fare is currently USD 6653.60, an IONE3 is USD 9292.01.
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Originally Posted by
wandering_fred
Circle Pacific DCIR fares do not seem to have the price variability that the DONEx fares have. 22k, 26k and 29kSA fares are sold.
While your assumptions do seem to be/are valid, the mileage limitations will make getting to JFK/BOS on one end and BKK/SE Asia on the other an interesting challenge. KUL seems to be slightly less expensive than NRT.
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A very simple guess at a possible routing. Have not checked if Oneworld flight actually exist for all. But SEA-NRT(AS-HA) BKK-SYD(QF) and SYD-DFW(QF) do exist.
Getting under 22,000 miles would be a challenge with USA east coast.
Some people do have multiple OW RTW tickets on go at 1 time. Can be contra rotating. (E to W and other W to E, Pacific clockwise - Pacific anti clockwise]
As Japan is (currently) a cheap starting point could start - end in Japan. With a BOS-Japan positioning flight to start to sequence
FJ & AS(HA) have some interesting routes.
Route guess -->
A map from the Great Circle Mapper - Great Circle Mapper
FJ network--->
A map from the Great Circle Mapper - Great Circle Mapper
AS-HA routes (from 2023). Are more routes now.
