rosege

Just wanted to send a big thanks to everyone in this thread for posting info.
My girlfriend and I just booked an amazing trip based off it for the latter part of the year.
Good luck to all with this booking!

CX_newbie

You should post your routing and your price Share the information!

rosege

ChocolateFactory

Flying for Fun

I was wondering that myself. I was originally suspect that it was a cover-up because poster has 2Y and 6J segments and an airport change in LON. When I played around with it I was getting full fare Y on the last segment HKG-TYO. I forced the routing specific to the exampled itinerary dates/times/flight numbers and it priced out eactly as shown in the classes shown. This is the first example I have seen with a co-terminal other than TYO and first time seeing an EK flight book into I. Interesting.

Maybe it is time to check out other co-terminals and open jaws.

James

beyounged

don't forget this marvelous guy has 2 stopovers, you can shave another 100USD off by cutting a stopover. (1 is free anyway) And I think you can stop anywhere along the way, LON, SIN, HKG...

Flying for Fun

The stopover in Madrid is FREE on the ICN-SCL fare. The stopover in Madrid is FREE on the SCL-TYO fare. The time in SCL is not a stopover. It is the time between when the ICN-SCL fare ends & SCL-TYO fare starts. No possiblity to shave anything else off. I have had success with stopovers at the start or end of a LA flight like PPT or MAD but no success with stopovers on other flights like SEZ.

When I replicated his itinerary it booked into J naturally. No forced booking class or cabin.

rosege

Its just powertools with firefox - and in powertools it has editor mode enabled

ChocolateFactory

What's that editor mode?

CDKing

I just did my manual request for Dragon air coded and CX operated. It posted today. So getting a reprint from QF will likely work out for you.

rosege

From the powertools page

Features added to the itinerary details page:

• convert times into 24h format
• translation support
• open fare rules in new window by default
• price breakdown (base fare, taxes & carrier imposed surcharges)
• editor mode (adjust cabin prior extraction)
• multiple handy links (Seatguru, Planefinder, WhereToCredit)
• new on page features like detailed mileage breakdown*, GCM-Map* and earned frequent flyer miles*
• create links to various providers (OTAs / airlines / other tools) to try direct booking of your itinerary

andymac66

I've also noticed that most stopovers force the price a lot higher and your words about the stopover having to be at the beginning or end of a LA segment make a lot of sense. That's a useful piece of information. On my last trip I stopped over in PPT and IPC without forcing the price much higher. It may not be a rock solid rule though - I'm currently on a three month "stopover" in EDI (my home location) on a AKL-PPT-IPC-SCL-MAD-LHR-EDI-HEL-TYO routing, all in Y. There's no point in trying to find cheap fares with a stopover in SEZ, DPS etc if it's never going to happen. I've wasted a lot of time on it, believe me!

beyounged

you can definitely stopover when you have some OW carriers.
Just finished a grand trip over 100 days, 4 tix on this fare. Even OJ at some places are ok, but I utilized mostly AY on stopovers.
last journey a few months back: ICN-MAD-SCL, SCL-MAD-FRA//FRA-HEL-PVG-HND ~700USD
this journey: each trip <1000USD, all plebe class
1. ICN-MAD-LIM-SCL, SCL-GYE-LIM-MAD-HEL-RVN//RVN-HEL-BKK-ICN-KIX
2. ICN-MAD-LIM-IQT//IQT-LIM-GYE-SCL, SCL-BOG-LIM-BCN-ICN-KIX
3. ICN-HEL-MAD-LIM-GRU-SCL, SCL-LIM-MAD-HEL-PRG//PRG-HEL-MLA//MLA-HEL-FUK-ICN-KIX
4. ICN-HKG-HEL-MAD-GYE-LIM-EZE-SCL, SCL-LIM-BCN-HEL-CHQ//HER-HEL-WAW//WAW-HEL-PVG-PUS-KIX
takeaways:
OJ definitely possible, stopovers in random places possible.
try avoiding MAD/BCN-LIM, these are ancient LA767, took it too many times and the IFE is basically unusable
AY helps you to very nice places in Europe
definitely for only 2 kinds of people: poor folks like me who want to go to difficult-to-reach places while earning EQM, or deep pockets who wish to cruise around the world's major cities in J.
over 100k EQM logged on AS. over 200k earned as MVPG75K for last 4 trips
interesting occurrences:
trip 4, as you can see, has 17 segments, over the 16 limit. priced out on LA via tools, payment went through, etix took 2 months for someone to re-issue manually on HEL-WAW-HEL segments. LA paid 270EUR for the two legs which booked in L class.
in trip 3, I missed my PRG-HEL-MLA flight (was having too much fun) and LA resolved it after excessive calling for 2 days. no penalties, all other segments restored, only paid another tix to MLA. Thanks to @ChocolateFactory for the help!

if there is enough demand, I may write a TR. also I can experiment around it a bit more, as I played around it for about 4 months before my trip began, but the devaluation of LA earnings on AS really made me hesitant. at 50% base miles for almost all Y buckets, this deal is as dead as my future, at least to me. If I would ever do it again, it will probably be a J run, but I think for TP it is not the best value if I want to do it as TP run.

rosege

When I redid the route for the screenshot I was also getting Y on last segment which was different from last week when I booked it - I had to poke around a bit to find the class I actually got on that last segment.
I actually dont have the co-terminal in my real booking - I had seen that when looking at options but when I booked it both were LHR (I figured the EK lounge would be better at LHR than LGW). I just did the matrix quickly and didnt notice it had the co-terminal for that one - with this route you can book EK J from LHR LGW and I think I also saw STN as an option for this.

rosege

Is anyone able to get this starting in Jan for a reasonable price? - economy is fine
Jan seems to be double the price from what I can tell