Mini RTW Questions
Jan 26, 2020, 6:40 pm
#7171
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 1,631
Looks to be over MPM at 14,194, assuming CMB is 13,366.
You're okay with the JFK/EWR (and LGA, for that matter). I've done JFK/EWR before, and I"m doing JFK/LGA soon.
You're okay with the JFK/EWR (and LGA, for that matter). I've done JFK/EWR before, and I"m doing JFK/LGA soon.
Jan 26, 2020, 8:02 pm
#7172
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 80
Am I ok going NRT-JFK-YVR? It seems to me like im backtracking....
Jan 26, 2020, 8:33 pm
#7173
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: BOS, YVR, ZRH
Programs: *G
Posts: 17,397
Jan 26, 2020, 9:04 pm
#7174
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 80
One more question, If I plan on doing an open-jaw at CMB, is this basically the same as me booking 2 one-way rewards? I might be able to do a first class flight on one of the legs but not the other, so would rather do 2 one-ways so im only paying the extra points on the leg that has first in it.
Jan 26, 2020, 10:35 pm
#7175
Join Date: Apr 2019
Posts: 9
I'm in the middle of a mini rtw and disaster struck. 5 pages have been ripped out of the middle of my passport. I'm currently in Bali it's Thursday 4:30 pm local time and I'm supposed to fly to Taipei in 24 hours.
There's no Canadian embassy in Bali and to get a replacement passport sent from Jakarta will take at least a week.
The photo page of my passport is fine and the pages ripped out were all blank and I still have them. I think if I just hand the passport to the Bali immigration they wouldn't even notice and stamp my exit beside the entry stamp. I'm very concerned about the Taiwanese officers denying entry and my next stop after that is Tokyo which decreases my chances of flying around with this passport even further.
I'm thinking about calling aeroplan when they open and abandoning the Taipei stop to fly to Jakarta and sort this out in person.
I would greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks.
There's no Canadian embassy in Bali and to get a replacement passport sent from Jakarta will take at least a week.
The photo page of my passport is fine and the pages ripped out were all blank and I still have them. I think if I just hand the passport to the Bali immigration they wouldn't even notice and stamp my exit beside the entry stamp. I'm very concerned about the Taiwanese officers denying entry and my next stop after that is Tokyo which decreases my chances of flying around with this passport even further.
I'm thinking about calling aeroplan when they open and abandoning the Taipei stop to fly to Jakarta and sort this out in person.
I would greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks.
I contacted the Jakarta embassy and realized my trip would have been completely ruined if I had to get a new passport there. To continue travelling I would have had to apply for a temp passport together with a regular passport. Temp takes 5-7 days and regular 15-20. If I had to go straight back to Canada I could have gotten an emergency travel document which is also 5-7 days. Plus there's all kinds of ridiculous document requirements and guarantor signatures since I obviously don't have my birth certificate with me. I will now be protecting my passport like the holy Grail when I travel.
So I had to just try to get through the rest of my trip with my passport with pages missing. I always hand my passport to immigration with the picture page open but I adopted a strategy of sticking my boarding pass a few pages before the damage so they can look at the picture, then the passport is bookmarked to a good page for them to stamp and they don't flip around too much.
This worked at Bali exit immigration and Taipei entry. Taipei exit was a bit sketchy but it worked as well. I'll explain later and post pictures of the damage when I get back to Canada. On my way to Tokyo soon so I think I'm in the clear.
Jan 27, 2020, 1:46 pm
#7176
Join Date: Mar 2013
Programs: Aeroplan, Amex AeroPlat
Posts: 977
Fee for Moving to PE or J from E but on J Ticket?
Long story short, called Aeroplan to change my X seat to PE on a flight in my miniRTW this April. Originally paid 150K for the whole ticket and had every flight segment in J except this one (PEK-YYZ on AC). The PE seat opened up after I booked X.
Agent said: well I can waive the change fee for you this ONE TIME to upgrade the seat to PE. But this means if J opens up later you will have to pay a change fee to move up to J.
I said sure yes go ahead to just make sure I get my PE seat. This route doesn’t usually open up J last minute anyway.
Now I’m wondering- what? Shouldn’t I be entitled to the upgrade to J without any change fee, given the entire ticket is paid using 150K points and the flight segment is the same?
Am I missing something here?
Either way, I’m probably going to change the flight entirely closer to departure date for BR or NH and just pay the $100 change fee
Agent said: well I can waive the change fee for you this ONE TIME to upgrade the seat to PE. But this means if J opens up later you will have to pay a change fee to move up to J.
I said sure yes go ahead to just make sure I get my PE seat. This route doesn’t usually open up J last minute anyway.
Now I’m wondering- what? Shouldn’t I be entitled to the upgrade to J without any change fee, given the entire ticket is paid using 150K points and the flight segment is the same?
Am I missing something here?
Either way, I’m probably going to change the flight entirely closer to departure date for BR or NH and just pay the $100 change fee
Jan 27, 2020, 2:11 pm
#7177
Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: YYZ
Posts: 88
Long story short, called Aeroplan to change my X seat to PE on a flight in my miniRTW this April. Originally paid 150K for the whole ticket and had every flight segment in J except this one (PEK-YYZ on AC). The PE seat opened up after I booked X.
Agent said: well I can waive the change fee for you this ONE TIME to upgrade the seat to PE. But this means if J opens up later you will have to pay a change fee to move up to J.
I said sure yes go ahead to just make sure I get my PE seat. This route doesn’t usually open up J last minute anyway.
Now I’m wondering- what? Shouldn’t I be entitled to the upgrade to J without any change fee, given the entire ticket is paid using 150K points and the flight segment is the same?
Am I missing something here?
Either way, I’m probably going to change the flight entirely closer to departure date for BR or NH and just pay the $100 change fee
Agent said: well I can waive the change fee for you this ONE TIME to upgrade the seat to PE. But this means if J opens up later you will have to pay a change fee to move up to J.
I said sure yes go ahead to just make sure I get my PE seat. This route doesn’t usually open up J last minute anyway.
Now I’m wondering- what? Shouldn’t I be entitled to the upgrade to J without any change fee, given the entire ticket is paid using 150K points and the flight segment is the same?
Am I missing something here?
Either way, I’m probably going to change the flight entirely closer to departure date for BR or NH and just pay the $100 change fee
Jan 27, 2020, 2:13 pm
#7178
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SFO
Programs: AC SE MM, BA Gold, SQ Silver, Bonvoy Tit LTG, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond
Posts: 44,316
As long as you do not change your flight, there is no fee to move up a cabin on the same flight up to the redemption's highest level (i.e. Y to J on a J redemption is free, Y to F is not).
Jan 27, 2020, 2:14 pm
#7179
Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: YVR
Programs: Marriot Gold, Hilton Gold, Aeroplan Black
Posts: 37
Long story short, called Aeroplan to change my X seat to PE on a flight in my miniRTW this April. Originally paid 150K for the whole ticket and had every flight segment in J except this one (PEK-YYZ on AC). The PE seat opened up after I booked X.
Agent said: well I can waive the change fee for you this ONE TIME to upgrade the seat to PE. But this means if J opens up later you will have to pay a change fee to move up to J.
I said sure yes go ahead to just make sure I get my PE seat. This route doesn’t usually open up J last minute anyway.
Now I’m wondering- what? Shouldn’t I be entitled to the upgrade to J without any change fee, given the entire ticket is paid using 150K points and the flight segment is the same?
Am I missing something here?
Either way, I’m probably going to change the flight entirely closer to departure date for BR or NH and just pay the $100 change fee
Agent said: well I can waive the change fee for you this ONE TIME to upgrade the seat to PE. But this means if J opens up later you will have to pay a change fee to move up to J.
I said sure yes go ahead to just make sure I get my PE seat. This route doesn’t usually open up J last minute anyway.
Now I’m wondering- what? Shouldn’t I be entitled to the upgrade to J without any change fee, given the entire ticket is paid using 150K points and the flight segment is the same?
Am I missing something here?
Either way, I’m probably going to change the flight entirely closer to departure date for BR or NH and just pay the $100 change fee
Jan 27, 2020, 2:31 pm
#7180
Join Date: Mar 2013
Programs: Aeroplan, Amex AeroPlat
Posts: 977
I got no status (silver...) and waited two and half hours. I just let the phone on speaker and muted while I worked
Jan 27, 2020, 5:01 pm
#7181
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 80
Are you able to call to aeroplan for a one-way booking and feed them segments? I know its hit or miss for mini-RTWs right now, but were you able to feed segments for one-ways say a year ago?
Jan 27, 2020, 5:14 pm
#7182
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SFO
Programs: AC SE MM, BA Gold, SQ Silver, Bonvoy Tit LTG, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond
Posts: 44,316
Jan 28, 2020, 5:14 pm
#7184
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: YEG
Programs: TK*G, AC
Posts: 345
Hoping for some advice on a mini-RTW booking I made under the old rules with two stops. On September 23, 2019 I booked a YYZ-MEL trip in J for travel commencing next week with stops in Europe and Asia. Unfortunately, I recently suffered an injury that’s going to prevent me from taking this trip.
Ideally, I’d like to rebook the same trip for February 2021. My initial thought was to pay the change fee to change the flights to later this year, then pay the change fee again in a few months to book the actual flights I want once there’s February/March 2021 reward availability.
I called Aeroplan and was told that I could change my flight but I’d have to commence travel by September 23, 2020 since the ticket is only valid for one year from issuance and that changing the ticket to a later date doesn’t extend the validity. I suppose I did know that rule but it slipped my mind.
So it looks like my best option is to cancel the reward altogether and take the refund less the cancellation fee. This would mean losing out on a two-stop mini-RTW. The Aeroplan agent was hopeful that the new program will bring back the two-stop rule, but she didn’t seem to have any details or confirmation that this would be the case, so who knows if that’ll be an option later this year or if it’ll be a similar number of miles if it is available.
Am I missing anything? Any other options available to me to take the same trip a year later without losing the extra stop? I’m absolutely fine paying the necessary change fees.
Ideally, I’d like to rebook the same trip for February 2021. My initial thought was to pay the change fee to change the flights to later this year, then pay the change fee again in a few months to book the actual flights I want once there’s February/March 2021 reward availability.
I called Aeroplan and was told that I could change my flight but I’d have to commence travel by September 23, 2020 since the ticket is only valid for one year from issuance and that changing the ticket to a later date doesn’t extend the validity. I suppose I did know that rule but it slipped my mind.
So it looks like my best option is to cancel the reward altogether and take the refund less the cancellation fee. This would mean losing out on a two-stop mini-RTW. The Aeroplan agent was hopeful that the new program will bring back the two-stop rule, but she didn’t seem to have any details or confirmation that this would be the case, so who knows if that’ll be an option later this year or if it’ll be a similar number of miles if it is available.
Am I missing anything? Any other options available to me to take the same trip a year later without losing the extra stop? I’m absolutely fine paying the necessary change fees.
Jan 28, 2020, 6:53 pm
#7185
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: BOS, YVR, ZRH
Programs: *G
Posts: 17,397
Hoping for some advice on a mini-RTW booking I made under the old rules with two stops. On September 23, 2019 I booked a YYZ-MEL trip in J for travel commencing next week with stops in Europe and Asia. Unfortunately, I recently suffered an injury that’s going to prevent me from taking this trip.
Ideally, I’d like to rebook the same trip for February 2021. My initial thought was to pay the change fee to change the flights to later this year, then pay the change fee again in a few months to book the actual flights I want once there’s February/March 2021 reward availability.
I called Aeroplan and was told that I could change my flight but I’d have to commence travel by September 23, 2020 since the ticket is only valid for one year from issuance and that changing the ticket to a later date doesn’t extend the validity. I suppose I did know that rule but it slipped my mind.
So it looks like my best option is to cancel the reward altogether and take the refund less the cancellation fee. This would mean losing out on a two-stop mini-RTW. The Aeroplan agent was hopeful that the new program will bring back the two-stop rule, but she didn’t seem to have any details or confirmation that this would be the case, so who knows if that’ll be an option later this year or if it’ll be a similar number of miles if it is available.
Am I missing anything? Any other options available to me to take the same trip a year later without losing the extra stop? I’m absolutely fine paying the necessary change fees.
Ideally, I’d like to rebook the same trip for February 2021. My initial thought was to pay the change fee to change the flights to later this year, then pay the change fee again in a few months to book the actual flights I want once there’s February/March 2021 reward availability.
I called Aeroplan and was told that I could change my flight but I’d have to commence travel by September 23, 2020 since the ticket is only valid for one year from issuance and that changing the ticket to a later date doesn’t extend the validity. I suppose I did know that rule but it slipped my mind.
So it looks like my best option is to cancel the reward altogether and take the refund less the cancellation fee. This would mean losing out on a two-stop mini-RTW. The Aeroplan agent was hopeful that the new program will bring back the two-stop rule, but she didn’t seem to have any details or confirmation that this would be the case, so who knows if that’ll be an option later this year or if it’ll be a similar number of miles if it is available.
Am I missing anything? Any other options available to me to take the same trip a year later without losing the extra stop? I’m absolutely fine paying the necessary change fees.
The only thing that MIGHT be a compromise is you fly this September:
DEP-STOP1
Then do "stopover" until February 2021 to resume your trip and nest in a separately booked STOP1-DEP round-trip.
That works if you have any time and eagerness for a (shorter) vacation this year and go to a similar area on your first stopover on the RTW. this works because while you have to depart within 1year of booking, you THEN have another extra year to complete travel. Makes sense?
EDIT: An example with made-up dates and cities:
RTW Segment 1: YYZ-ATH, stop (September 2020)
Cash: ATH-YYZ (September 2020)
Cash: YYZ-ZRH (February 2021) - ATH (March 2021)
RTW Segment 2: ATH-MEL (March 2021)
RTW Segment 3: MEL-TYO (April 2021)
RTW Segment 4: TYO-YYZ (June 2021)
Last edited by Smiley90; Jan 28, 2020 at 7:02 pm