Originally Posted by
Flying Viking
Food for thought there...
So if a more professional traveller were to fly PEK-EWR-CPH-SIN-PEK, how would he/she go about it? My current RTW business-class ticket costs about USD 6,400. The round-trip ticket from PEK-EWR-PEK on its own costs more than this, so I thought it was great value for money
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That is my point, you can not buy a RTW in business class for $6,400 (the current price for CRWSTAR1 ex PEK is about $6.990 anyway), but because you are booked in A on SQ FRA-SIN rather than D you have to buy a RTW in First Class for about $10,760 - you are basically paying $3,800 extra for just one flight, as you don't have any other flights in F in your whole itinerary. A CRWSTAR1 does not allow an upgrade of just one sector with cash, if one sector is booked in First (other than UA/US domestic flights on a 2-class-aircraft) you have to buy a FRWSTAR1.
Is there a better way with higher service-standards at a marginal increase in price? I don't mind a stop-over on long flights (which is why my real routing for the coming trip is PEK-TOR-EWR-CPH-FRA-SIN-PEK).
And I'm still keeping my expectations as low as possible for the SQ-leg. If there's been a mix-up with the booking, I want to enjoy their new b-class instead of being disappointed I'm missing their f-class.
Your current itinerary covers less than 21,500 of the allowed 29,000, so you have a lot of space to play around. I assume you do have the *A RTW Mileage calculator? If not, you can download it for free at
http://www.staralliance.com.
In case you do buy a FRWSTAR1, you could do PEK-ICN-SFO (new SQ F)-EWR-FRA (LH F)-CPH-FRA-BKK (TG F)-PEK or PEK-NRT-LAX (NH F / old SQ F)-EWR-FRA (LH F)-CPH-FRA-SIN (new SQ F)-PEK or even way more complex routings, as you are still way below the max.