Calchas

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tamg

Found fares with stopovers in ITA matrix, e.g. FRA-LHR-BKK (stopover)-HKG, HKG-PEK (stopover)-LHR-FRA for Ł1050.

However you only seem to be able to book 5 flights multi-city on expedia and I cannot find anywhere else that prices it the same as on ITA (because of the YQ?).

Any advice?

Thanks

Calchas

Welcome to FlyerTalk

Someone somewhere wrote a browser plug in that transfers your ITA quote across to Orbitz or Expedia. I can't find it now but it's quite popular. Have a Google.

Will probably need a bit of tweaking to work with a HKG point of sale.

Also Kayak uses the same underlying pricing software as the ITA Matrix so try that.

tamg

Thanks! Using the plugin I was able to find a bookable fare with stopovers in Beijing and Bangkok for Ł1055, however still not on expedia hk which seems to only support 5 segments regardless.

But stopovers appear to prevent the HK YQ trick from working anyway.

For those also struggling, the browser extension can be found here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...serscript.html

mlqsko

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...serscript.html

BobbySteel

I don't think any of those transfer to expedia hk though.

cmcbugg

Actually just tried it myself. Open with Farefreaks - then you can select a number of OTAs including expedia hk.

skywalkerLAX

What dates did you try and which modifications did you make?

It's a very good fare but without the Stopovers I can't maximize my TPs and rather fly a few MH tickets in asia for that money.

Calchas

I know you didn't quite say this, but in case someone has covered an MH sector with this fare, "I" class on MH gets 0 points when credited to BAEC.

cln

i try to get FRA-LHR-BKK-HKG-BKK-LHR-FRA it is possible on matrix but expedia hk only has 5 flights maximum *_*

any idea ?

edit i got the script to work but price goes up to 47k HKD

DrTom

Trying to book for next Easter (taking the Germany to London leg earlier).

Priced up successful on Matrix, copied across to expedia.com.hk (via the script and farefreaks).

However, I can't book as Expedia will only take dates up to 21 March 2016 and the return leg is after that.

Any way around this, or alternative booking sources, please?

cln

hmm via farefreaks i cant see expedia.comhk anymore... actually now no expedia choices anymore visible

IAN-UK

[QUOTE=cln;24722783]i try to get FRA-LHR-BKK-HKG-BKK-LHR-FRA it is possible on matrix but expedia hk only has 5 flights maximum *_*

any idea ?
/QUOTE]

If you have BA selected as the airline, then the system might intuitively offer FRA-HKG and/or BKK-FRA both via LHR. That cuts your booking down to four (or five) lines. Worth trying.

Steppo

That's correct... when FareFreaks started in Nov14 you could pass up to 6 flights to expedia even though there UI only was made for up to 5. While playing with this fare right now.. trying to find some advices for you, i recognized this possibility is gone. So i have to set the limit of legs to 5 for expedia. Its not showing expedia while your search is containing 6 legs since you would get unsuitable results anyway. Sorry for that.
The next limitation of expedia is, you can only pass one airline. This works fine while searching fo BA and you will find more flights than you would with any known search-engine. But i have not yet found the possibility to pass more than one airline. Any Stopovers including CX or any other airline result in a search without any pre-filtered airline, messing up the results. The only why is to playing with flight times..
But i have not found a "this the way!" yet.

cln

when i tried it 2 hours ago expedia.com.hk was available :<