Smiley90

I've been wondering this too - do you have one year from original ticket date to FLY or do you have one year from original ticket date to REBOOK.

Eg would any ticket booked on August 31st 2019 have to be completely flown by August 31 2020, or could you book for, say, April and then once October 2020 is available change it to that? I'm thinking not.

canadiancow

I booked mine on June 5 2019 and I'm allowed to fly June 29 2020.

You must commence travel within one year of original ticketing date, and you must finish travel within one year of initial travel date, from the way I read my email.

Smiley90

I read your e-mail and it does say "commence", so there's hope that e.g.

Book August 31st 2019 for known "wrong" dates in, say, April 2020
Once availability opens up, schedule for
Departure late August 2020
Return October 2020

WOULD be allowed... Hope. Optimally we'd have left in September or October 2020 but MAYBE I can make late August work. I definitely won't be able to make leaving in July work for a return in August, which would be sad to lose a stopover...

tbuff

Did some digging

YWG-ORD UA
ORD-FRA UA
FRA-SIN appears to work on TK but connects - direct available?
SIN-SFO/SEA routes through Korea on Asiana - how is SQ J availability?

or should I go the other way first? IE SFO SIN?

flyer05

Do SEs get free changes? Or just free cancellations?

canadiancow

Both.

bichoo

I'm not entirely sure on this but if you take your first flight before August 31, 2020 then your good for sure.

In my case, to minimize risk and maximize value, i'm going to book a round trip along a mini-RTW. I'll be flying to IST as my first stop in the mini-RTW in April 2020 and have dummy bookings for IST-SIN(stop)-MEL(dest) for May 2020. After I fly the IST leg, I'll call into aeroplan and push out my remaining flights to March 2021 and ensuring my travel ends before April 2021 (within 1 year of my first stop in IST). . I'll return back from IST to Canada on a separate ticket and link up with my remaining flights out of IST in March 2021 on a separate ticket as well. Keeping my final destination (MEL) unchanged, hopefully I wont be subject to any new reward fee structure that I am expecting.to come about.

Getting away from work long enough to enjoy europe, asia and australia in 10-14 days is difficult so I'll have a little european adventure next year and a long asia/australia trip in 2021.

canadiancow

Your profile says AC*E. If that's accurate, any more changes to the fee structure will be neutral or positive for you.

kalderlake

Hi.

Working on mRTW routing, and I have a question re taxes, fees, etc.

If I book several consecutive flights with Air India in the middle of a longer itinerary, do I pay the fees on each flight, or only on one?

I am looking at flying into and out of India on Air India, (and perhaps taking another flight or two domestically, depending on the answer to my question as well) if that matters.

TIA for any help.

Twickenham

OK, so i am researching a miniRTW for next spring. This is what I have so far:

YUL-SFO-LAX-SYD-AKL (or WLG) - stop
AKL-WLG-MEL-SIN-DPS - stop

From here I have 2 scenarios:

DPS-SIN (or BKK)-ADD - stop
ADD-FCO (or MXP)-ZRH-YUL

or

DPS-IST- stop
IST-(maybe VCE)-ZRH-YUL

Questions:
-Are either of these itineraries within MPM?
-If not, would starting in YQB help?
-Any way I can get JNB to work if I keep AKL? Or even just with DPS?

Twickenham

You pay the fees for the full itinerary. These cannot be determined by looking at the fees of each flight individually.

kalderlake

Thanks.

kalderlake

I"m not an expert, but here's my take:

Using the technique outlined here:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/28509402-post231.html

the MPM to AKL from YUL is 14324, and from YQB it's 14521.

Looking at the Great Circle Mapper, either of the return routes you outline is well over that.

BTW: the MPM for YQB to JNB is 12707, and that from YUL must be a similar number.

You might be able to do YUL-DPS-YUL via JNB if you can find a fairly direct route back from JNB.

bichoo

MEL is your furthest point, not AKL. If you make MEL your final destination, you will have more MPM, its around 16,000 from YQB.

rankourabu

The only way DPS works via JNB is if one does the JNB SIN direct flight which is only ever available in Y.

All other routings (via ADD or PER) go over MPM