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Aug 30, 2019, 11:07 am
#946
Join Date: May 2018
Location: YYZ
Programs: AA Plat, Bonvoy Titanium, Hilton Diamond, Golden Circle Jade
Posts: 126
Aug 30, 2019, 11:08 am
#947
Join Date: May 2018
Posts: 40
The new one is TPE-MXP as of Feb 2020. You can find some availability online already.
Aug 30, 2019, 12:09 pm
#948
Join Date: May 2018
Location: YYZ
Programs: AA Plat, Bonvoy Titanium, Hilton Diamond, Golden Circle Jade
Posts: 126
I've booked my first, and likely with the new changes coming September 1, last mini-RTW.
YYZ-TPE (BR - J) (2 hour connection)
TPE-SGN (BR - J)
-stop- [some paid local flights here]
SGN-SIN (SQ - J) (5.5 hour connection)
SIN-MLE (SQ - split J/Y with two in J and 1 in Y)
- stop / destination -
MLE - IST (TK - J)
- 13 hours in IST (intentional) -
IST - VIE (TK - J)
-stop-
VIE - YYZ (AC - J)
Taxes and fees (including booking fee) were a whopping $831 CAD per person.
The 'problem child' flight is solely the Air Canada flight representing about $600 of the cost.
I plan on keeping an eye out for better options and will pay the $100 change fee for a routing like: VIE-EWR-YYZ (UA-J) or VIE-WAW-YYZ (LO) to save $500 per person. We are three passengers so it was a bit harder to book this.
YYZ-TPE (BR - J) (2 hour connection)
TPE-SGN (BR - J)
-stop- [some paid local flights here]
SGN-SIN (SQ - J) (5.5 hour connection)
SIN-MLE (SQ - split J/Y with two in J and 1 in Y)
- stop / destination -
MLE - IST (TK - J)
- 13 hours in IST (intentional) -
IST - VIE (TK - J)
-stop-
VIE - YYZ (AC - J)
Taxes and fees (including booking fee) were a whopping $831 CAD per person.
The 'problem child' flight is solely the Air Canada flight representing about $600 of the cost.
I plan on keeping an eye out for better options and will pay the $100 change fee for a routing like: VIE-EWR-YYZ (UA-J) or VIE-WAW-YYZ (LO) to save $500 per person. We are three passengers so it was a bit harder to book this.
VIE-LIS-YYZ all on TAP
VIE-LIS-BOS/ORD/IAD-YYZ TAP+AC short haul
VIE-ZRH-YUL-YTZ LX+AC short haul
VIE-ZRH-BOS/ORD-YYZ LX+AC short haul
Aug 30, 2019, 7:27 pm
#949
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2015
Location: BOS, YVR, ZRH
Programs: *G
Posts: 17,384
Just got off the phone making this "dummy" booking for 2 tix that I'll later change the dates of (for 400 extra...) to depart August 2020. Lady on the phone also confirmed again that I'll definitely be able to retain the two stopover and make date changes since I booked it before rule change, if anyone else was interested in doing that. But got it in now to retain the two stopovers:
YVR-EWR AC J
EWR-ZRH LX J //STOP
ZRH-JNB LX J
JNB-CPT SA J //DEST
CPT-ADD ET J
ADD-PVG ET J //STOP
PVG-TPE BR J
TPE-SEA BR J
SEA-YVR AC Y (lol)
Total cost for 2 people was 617.62CAD + 65CAD in phone-in booking fees.
YVR-EWR AC J
EWR-ZRH LX J //STOP
ZRH-JNB LX J
JNB-CPT SA J //DEST
CPT-ADD ET J
ADD-PVG ET J //STOP
PVG-TPE BR J
TPE-SEA BR J
SEA-YVR AC Y (lol)
Total cost for 2 people was 617.62CAD + 65CAD in phone-in booking fees.
Aug 30, 2019, 8:24 pm
#950
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 8
Booked a first ever mini RTW!
YYC-IAH AC J
IAH-BOG UA Y
BOG-BCN AV J
BCN-IST TK J (Stopover)
IST-CAI MS J
CAI-JNB MS J
JNB-ELS SA J (Destination)
ELS-JNB SA J
JNB-ADD ET J
ADD-SIN ET J (Stopover)
SIN-SGN SQ J
SGN-ICN OZ J
ICN-SEA OZ J
SEA-YVR AC Y
YVR-YYC AC J
155K miles + $485.31 fees & taxes + booking fee
YYC-IAH AC J
IAH-BOG UA Y
BOG-BCN AV J
BCN-IST TK J (Stopover)
IST-CAI MS J
CAI-JNB MS J
JNB-ELS SA J (Destination)
ELS-JNB SA J
JNB-ADD ET J
ADD-SIN ET J (Stopover)
SIN-SGN SQ J
SGN-ICN OZ J
ICN-SEA OZ J
SEA-YVR AC Y
YVR-YYC AC J
155K miles + $485.31 fees & taxes + booking fee
Aug 30, 2019, 10:54 pm
#951
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SFO
Programs: AC SE MM, BA Gold, SQ Silver, Bonvoy Tit LTG, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond
Posts: 44,302
I was bored, and had a whole long weekend to kill, so I found this:
I'll deal with LAX-SFO later.
I messaged a few cow-like people about it, and they both seemed interested. All segments had the fare class in 3+, except HND-LAX, which was O1 I3+.
So I have a calf with me who's on all the same segments, except HND-LAX is currently in I. But it's F6.
And we're going to deal with the LAX-SFO closer to departure.
I booked SFO-IAH-FRA online for $1100x2 in taxes/fees, then called to add the rest, and half that amount was refunded.
No booking fee or change fee, obviously, and there will be no change fee when I fix the final two segments.
I'm a little annoyed that we split the PNR to put me in F for the TPAC though, because now only canadiancalf is listed for a CPU on LAX-MRY.
Code:
2019-08-30 UA 1909 SFO-IAH (I) 2019-08-31 LH 441 IAH-FRA (O) 2019-09-01 TG 921 FRA-BKK (O) 2019-09-02 TG 660 BKK-HND (O) 2019-09-02 NH 106 HND-LAX (O) 2019-09-02 UA 5324 LAX-MRY (X) 2019-09-03 UA 5316 MRY-SFO (X)
I'll deal with LAX-SFO later.
I messaged a few cow-like people about it, and they both seemed interested. All segments had the fare class in 3+, except HND-LAX, which was O1 I3+.
So I have a calf with me who's on all the same segments, except HND-LAX is currently in I. But it's F6.
And we're going to deal with the LAX-SFO closer to departure.
I booked SFO-IAH-FRA online for $1100x2 in taxes/fees, then called to add the rest, and half that amount was refunded.
No booking fee or change fee, obviously, and there will be no change fee when I fix the final two segments.
I'm a little annoyed that we split the PNR to put me in F for the TPAC though, because now only canadiancalf is listed for a CPU on LAX-MRY.
Aug 30, 2019, 11:00 pm
#952
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2015
Location: BOS, YVR, ZRH
Programs: *G
Posts: 17,384
I was bored, and had a whole long weekend to kill, so I found this:
I'll deal with LAX-SFO later.
I messaged a few cow-like people about it, and they both seemed interested. All segments had the fare class in 3+, except HND-LAX, which was O1 I3+.
So I have a calf with me who's on all the same segments, except HND-LAX is currently in I. But it's F6.
And we're going to deal with the LAX-SFO closer to departure.
I booked SFO-IAH-FRA online for $1100x2 in taxes/fees, then called to add the rest, and half that amount was refunded.
No booking fee or change fee, obviously, and there will be no change fee when I fix the final two segments.
I'm a little annoyed that we split the PNR to put me in F for the TPAC though, because now only canadiancalf is listed for a CPU on LAX-MRY.
Code:
2019-08-30 UA 1909 SFO-IAH (I) 2019-08-31 LH 441 IAH-FRA (O) 2019-09-01 TG 921 FRA-BKK (O) 2019-09-02 TG 660 BKK-HND (O) 2019-09-02 NH 106 HND-LAX (O) 2019-09-02 UA 5324 LAX-MRY (X) 2019-09-03 UA 5316 MRY-SFO (X)
I'll deal with LAX-SFO later.
I messaged a few cow-like people about it, and they both seemed interested. All segments had the fare class in 3+, except HND-LAX, which was O1 I3+.
So I have a calf with me who's on all the same segments, except HND-LAX is currently in I. But it's F6.
And we're going to deal with the LAX-SFO closer to departure.
I booked SFO-IAH-FRA online for $1100x2 in taxes/fees, then called to add the rest, and half that amount was refunded.
No booking fee or change fee, obviously, and there will be no change fee when I fix the final two segments.
I'm a little annoyed that we split the PNR to put me in F for the TPAC though, because now only canadiancalf is listed for a CPU on LAX-MRY.
(just in case someone else reading your post goes "why'd cow get a refund, did he seduce the operator???", in case you already know)
Aug 30, 2019, 11:23 pm
#953
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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: 44,302
Why'd you book it online? You get a tax refund because for whatever reason, if you fly USA-GERMANY-XXX, USA-GERMANY is YQ-free (and you get to skip the LH scamcharges), but stopping in Germany means you have to pay YQ. And this doesn't apply to Canada-Germany-XXX flights either. No clue why.
(just in case someone else reading your post goes "why'd cow get a refund, did he seduce the operator???", in case you already know)
(just in case someone else reading your post goes "why'd cow get a refund, did he seduce the operator???", in case you already know)
I booked it online because as an SE, I have a $30 phone booking fee, but I have a change fee waiver. And the whole itinerary wouldn't show up online.
Also I booked SFO-IAH-FRA around 2:15 before departure, and the ticketing cutoff with Aeroplan is 2 hours
Aug 31, 2019, 6:47 pm
#954
Join Date: Aug 2019
Programs: Aeroplan
Posts: 43
Booked my first-ever mini-RTW trip. How'd I do?
Goal: To visit Australia with stopovers in Japan and Germany.
My itinerary:
Saturday, April 11 AC799 YYZ LAX
Sunday, April 12 OZ201 LAX ICN
Tuesday, April 14 OZ106 ICN NRT
Wednesday, April 22 NH807 NRT BKK
Thursday, April 23 SQ979 BKK SIN
Friday, April 24 SQ225 SIN PER
Wednesday, May 6 SQ224 PER SIN
Wednesday, May 6 SQ974 SIN BKK
Thursday, May 7 TK59 BKK IST
Thursday, May 7 TK1727 IST TXL
Saturday, May 16 LX967 TXL ZRH
Sunday, May 17 LX86 ZRH YUL
Sunday, May 17 AC429 YUL YYZ
Everything is in business class.
Some of the routing left something to be desired. I would have preferred to land in SYD instead of PER, but I had incredible difficulty finding any availability. Likewise, any intra-Japan flights were a no-go. And I couldn't figure out a way to get it to work such that I'd be able to take a city tour in Singapore or Istanbul.
I think I could have done a bit better if I thought it through a bit more and spent more time on it (not that this didn't take a lot of time to piece together!).. but that August 31 deadline loomed large.
My itinerary:
Saturday, April 11 AC799 YYZ LAX
Sunday, April 12 OZ201 LAX ICN
Tuesday, April 14 OZ106 ICN NRT
Wednesday, April 22 NH807 NRT BKK
Thursday, April 23 SQ979 BKK SIN
Friday, April 24 SQ225 SIN PER
Wednesday, May 6 SQ224 PER SIN
Wednesday, May 6 SQ974 SIN BKK
Thursday, May 7 TK59 BKK IST
Thursday, May 7 TK1727 IST TXL
Saturday, May 16 LX967 TXL ZRH
Sunday, May 17 LX86 ZRH YUL
Sunday, May 17 AC429 YUL YYZ
Everything is in business class.
Some of the routing left something to be desired. I would have preferred to land in SYD instead of PER, but I had incredible difficulty finding any availability. Likewise, any intra-Japan flights were a no-go. And I couldn't figure out a way to get it to work such that I'd be able to take a city tour in Singapore or Istanbul.
I think I could have done a bit better if I thought it through a bit more and spent more time on it (not that this didn't take a lot of time to piece together!).. but that August 31 deadline loomed large.
Aug 31, 2019, 7:03 pm
#955
Suspended
Join Date: Sep 2014
Programs: AC SE100K-1MM, NH, DL, AA, BA, Global Entry/Nexus, APEC..
Posts: 18,877
Goal: To visit Australia with stopovers in Japan and Germany.......
I think I could have done a bit better if I thought it through a bit more and spent more time on it (not that this didn't take a lot of time to piece together!).. but that August 31 deadline loomed large.
I think I could have done a bit better if I thought it through a bit more and spent more time on it (not that this didn't take a lot of time to piece together!).. but that August 31 deadline loomed large.
Sep 1, 2019, 2:05 am
#956
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 65
We (me+1) have done mRTW trips in the past, but for practical reasons (like vacation availability, etc) they never actually went all the way around the world, using all three stops in one region.
With the rule changes coming up, we decided it was time to finally do a true mRTW that actually goes RTW.
Tried very hard to do Japan, Australia, and Europe, and could have made it work with PER (similar to Thelmp above), but with starting from YYC rather than YYZ it would have limited our options in Europe.
So in the end:
YYC-YVR - AC J
YVR-HND - NH J
HND-GMP - NH (One J, One Y, for now)
ICN-SIN - SQ J
SIN-DPS - SQ J
DPS-SIN - SQ J
SIN-BKK - SQ J
BKK-ZRH - LX J
ZRH-YUL - LX J
YUL-YYC - AC J
Taxes/fees: $535.31 + $31.50 per person
Will be setting an alert to look for availability to switch the BKK-ZRH leg to BKK-VIE to try out the new BR.
Thanks to all of those who've contributed to this forum over the years that gave me the background understanding to be able to book this in a short period of time before the rule change!
Side note:
Aeroplan customer service person was excellent - she was the first I've had who was exited rather than confused that I had all the airport codes, flight numbers and dates ready for her to enter and entering them and getting confirmed bookings took less than 15 minutes, despite her having to do it twice as the miles were coming out of two different accounts.
Then, we waited over an hour on hold together for a supervisor to approve the tax/fees payment, as quote "there's too much tax" by which she meant there were too many different tax line items for the system to handle so a supervisor had to manually approve it.
She said the wait for a supervisor was really long because "Today's the last day to book these really complicated itineraries, so we're really busy!"
With the rule changes coming up, we decided it was time to finally do a true mRTW that actually goes RTW.
Tried very hard to do Japan, Australia, and Europe, and could have made it work with PER (similar to Thelmp above), but with starting from YYC rather than YYZ it would have limited our options in Europe.
So in the end:
YYC-YVR - AC J
YVR-HND - NH J
HND-GMP - NH (One J, One Y, for now)
ICN-SIN - SQ J
SIN-DPS - SQ J
DPS-SIN - SQ J
SIN-BKK - SQ J
BKK-ZRH - LX J
ZRH-YUL - LX J
YUL-YYC - AC J
Taxes/fees: $535.31 + $31.50 per person
Will be setting an alert to look for availability to switch the BKK-ZRH leg to BKK-VIE to try out the new BR.
Thanks to all of those who've contributed to this forum over the years that gave me the background understanding to be able to book this in a short period of time before the rule change!
Side note:
Aeroplan customer service person was excellent - she was the first I've had who was exited rather than confused that I had all the airport codes, flight numbers and dates ready for her to enter and entering them and getting confirmed bookings took less than 15 minutes, despite her having to do it twice as the miles were coming out of two different accounts.
Then, we waited over an hour on hold together for a supervisor to approve the tax/fees payment, as quote "there's too much tax" by which she meant there were too many different tax line items for the system to handle so a supervisor had to manually approve it.
She said the wait for a supervisor was really long because "Today's the last day to book these really complicated itineraries, so we're really busy!"
Last edited by peteremcc; Sep 1, 2019 at 2:17 am
Sep 1, 2019, 3:34 am
#957
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Canada
Programs: UA*1K MM
Posts: 23,293
RIP 2 stopover mRTWs. 
Sep 3, 2019, 4:19 am
#958
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,000
Booked under the wire. 3 PAX, all in J except for that one pesky DH8 segment.
YVR-YEG AC
<24 hours
YEG-YYC AC
<24 hours
YYC-NRT AC
stop
NRT-ICN-TAS OZ
turnaround
TAS-IST-CDG TK
stop
CDG-FRA-ZRH LH
<24 hours
ZRH-YVR AC
$442+$31.50
YVR-YEG AC
<24 hours
YEG-YYC AC
<24 hours
YYC-NRT AC
stop
NRT-ICN-TAS OZ
turnaround
TAS-IST-CDG TK
stop
CDG-FRA-ZRH LH
<24 hours
ZRH-YVR AC
$442+$31.50
Sep 3, 2019, 4:22 am
#959
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,000
A friend has in J:
YVR-HND NH
HND-SIN NH
SIN-DPS SQ turnaround
DPS-IST TK
IST-FRA TK stop
FRA-YVR AC
$273
YVR-HND NH
HND-SIN NH
SIN-DPS SQ turnaround
DPS-IST TK
IST-FRA TK stop
FRA-YVR AC
$273
Sep 4, 2019, 12:18 pm
#960
Join Date: May 2018
Location: YYZ
Programs: AA Plat, Bonvoy Titanium, Hilton Diamond, Golden Circle Jade
Posts: 126
That is a pretty low total fees for long haul AC, OZ and another AC. The two LH shorthaul isn't cheap either. I'd estimate those to add up 600-800 pp. I wonder what's the trick/catch here.