Originally Posted by cbert
Wanted to keep taxes to lowest but dont know how to calculate them myself, as per the belwo should I travel on other airlines instead of the ones chosen, also how do I keep taxes down ?
1) Fly in coach (which you are)
2) Avoid stopping in London
3) Book on AA (which you might be able to do since you're doing AA from JFK-LHR)
4) Try to make as few connections as possible.
Obviously, these aren't feasible for your journey. So in your case, just book on AA and that's about all you can do, imo.
Your trip is fine. Your actual routing would be SYD-JFK-CUN-ORD-BUF-ORD-JFK-LHR-CAI-BCN-IST-LHR-PEK-HKG-BOM-HKG-NRT-PER-MEL-AYQ-PER
There are several other routings that would get you similar results if availability becomes an issue.
As for New York. Frequency from Chicago to LaGuardia or Newark is much more frequent than to JFK. JFK is an RJ Eagle flight and there's only a few a day. If it were my choice, I would go to Newark if you're taking public transport to Manhattan or to LaGuardia if you're taking a cab. Other opinions might vary.