allbrosca

Just changed mine. Made it pretty basic, but covering a lot of miles. Also, fees and scamcharges went from $951 to $810 (x 2). Now going:

YYZ-LAX (AC J) LAX-ICN (OZ F) Stop
ICN-NRT (OZ F) Stop
NRT-FRA (NH F) FRA-BRU (LH J) Stop replaces NRT-BKK (TG J) BKK-BRU (TG F)
BRU-ORD (UA F) ORD-YYZ (AC J) replaces BRU-YUL (AC J) YUL-YYZ (AC J)

Now all the long legs are in F. Really wanted to stop at the TK First Class lounge in BKK but I eliminated half a day of travel time and picked up an extra night in BRU instead of spending it on a plane!

habshabs444

I just booked the following after a couple of hours on the phone with Aeroplan. I thought I had it all down pat, until I realized that they weren't showing any of the OZ F flights that I wanted that were showing up on the united award site, but not aeroplan. Anyhow, here it is:

YYZ-ORD - AC J - E75 - (overnight <24hrs)
ORD-NRT - NH F - 777-300ER - (overnight <24hrs)
NRT-HKG - NH J - 763 - stop
HKG-BKK - TG F - A380 - (overnight <24hrs)
BKK-MUC - TG F - 747-400 - (overnight <24hrs)
MUC-VIE - LH J - Fokker 100 - stop
VIE-FRA - LH J - A319 (overnight <24hrs)
FRA-ORD - UA F - 777-200
ORD-YYZ - UA J - CR7

I plan to swap out the United flight for LH F once it becomes available a few weeks out which I realize will bump up my YQ even higher but I'm not going to get to experience it every day. As it stands now, total fees/charges were $887.16 which is slightly higher than I thought it would be, but oh well. I purposely wanted to stop over in each location with the exception of FRA in order to do a quick visit of each city.

rankourabu

It seems that mini-rtw's with scamcharges around the $1000 mark are now the norm....

1Newflyer

Does mini-RTW require a minimum number of segments to be called that? I am planning a trip to Europe next spring with one stopover of several days each way, probably in NY going to and Montreal coming back.

Pseudo Nim

Not really. It's a term coined by FT meaning an itinerary where you cross both oceans and manage a few stops along the way. But as you notice, this thread has a number of North America - Asia itineraries going *and* returning over the Atlantic, which are technically not RTWs, but have potential for even more "interesting" routings because of higher MPM, so the term has kind of diluted itself.

Also, the Aeroplan agents have no clue what you'd be talking about if you did mention it

sp4294

NH F is a great score, as is TG A388 in F (although sadly too short). Is the F to MUC still in B777 suites? Nice job!

lovenola

I just booked this after spending a ton of time with the KVS tool over the past few weeks and some very helpful FTers:

All segments in J except as noted, 2 tickets:

SFO to FRA on UA
FRA to BRU on SN
BRU to CAI on MS, stopover in CAI

CAI to CAN on MS
CAN to PVG on CA, stopover in PVG

PVG to NRT on NH, in Y going to try and change it to J, stopover in NRT
NRT to SEA on UA
SEA to SFO on UA, in Y but probably going to ditch this leg and just pay to fly back to LAX on WN

Including the call centre fee, I paid 135k miles and $270 per ticket in fees, which I thought was pretty good.

1Newflyer

I can not find it easily if discussed before, but I am constructing an itinerary of
a trip to Europe as follows:

YYC - EWR stop

JFK - VIE
VIE - KRK destination
and return via YUL >>>>>>>>>

Is changing airports at New York acceptable? The AP tool appears not to like it....

Is using points from 1 account for 2 tickets any better than separate accounts for each ticket as far as agent booking and seat assignments? Do they charge fees separately for each ticket or combined into one sum?

rankourabu

This is in the wrong thread, but yes changing airports is acceptable.

However, JFK-VIE-KRK-xxx-YUL will cost about $700+ in fees

Method of payment doesnt matter, each ticket will get charged $33.90 phone fee.

Pseudo Nim

Changing airports in the same city is not a problem (especially if they are well-known airports and you don't have to argue with the agent, like in the case of KIX/ITM). As far as the points go - it makes no difference which accounts the points come from as the fees are the same regardless.

[edit] why don't you try to get on YYZ-WAW which might have the 787 (depending on your dates)?

He does say 747-400....

allbrosca

Out of nowhere there has been a lot of NH F availability about 6 months out. Maybe that's when they release them? I have been checking NRT and HND to BRU fairly regularly and earlier this week found lots of NH F routing through either FRA or MUC in early May.

krayZpaving

Just finished the second last leg of this, and will complete the trip tonight. Thanks to all for the collective help & intelligence (and the SQ F availability spot of course!).

Pseudo Nim

Past experience definitely didn't see a lot of NH F availability - any number of months out. So good score there

1Newflyer

My apologies for misplacing my post. Thank you both for comments.

TDawg225

I had originally booked a trip with the 125K F "promotion" for Oct but had to change last min because of medical issues. I was unfortunately in the 3 week window so I couldn't refund the points and had to book the flight within 1 year of ticketing (with no vacation left for the year), so the new itinerary isn't the most ideal but I figured I would add it to the collective wisdom should someone be looking for something similar.

YYJ - YVR - AC Y - DH3 (had to burn my original istanbul stopover because I didn't have vacation until Feb but needed flight to start before Dec 3)
YVR - SFO - UA Y - A319
SFO - NRT - NH J - 77W (stopover)
HND - BKK - TG F - 773 (destination)
BKK - HKG - TG F - A380
HKG - IST - TK J - 77W
IST - FRA - LH J - 321
FRA - IAD - LH J - 74H
IAD - YYZ - UA Y - ER4
YYZ - YVR - AC J - 77L

Obviously I'm hoping for some F space to open on FRA-IAD and SFO-NRT (unlikely). If anyone can think of anything else I might want to change (should I change my ticket closer to dep) please let me know.

Taxes and scamcharges ~$800. I didn't calculate the exact amount because it was hard to work out with change fees, refunds, etc.