Definitely wouldn't be your connection to EF, would be their connection onward, and must have been intermittent while updating type thing.

That's what I'm worried about. I finished up with the agent at 4 and called back at 4:50 (10 minutes before they closed) and it hadn't been priced yet.She said call back tomorrow.

I booked it using my BA FF account. I can see that about 75% of my flights were booked at 25% of my husbands. Ill look tomorrow to see if it will show me the fare.

Thanks!!

Did you make the booking with AA or BA? The FF account doesn't matter, just the airline PNR. If it was AA then use the PNR they gave you (or look it up) and check AA.com

Excellent point! My brain is fried! Thank you!

Passenger x 1

$5,261.00

Taxes
$330.26

Carrier-imposed fees
$510.30

Total (all passengers)
$6,101.56

And there you have it. I started a new ticket because the agent told me that the fare had not gone up. So, now we have no tickets.

Sorry about that. Most of the time the advice given on FT is better than the advice given by the airline/hotel/etc. Remember that you could have changed the routing and dates after ticketing for $125.

On to the next deal.

I really trusted Kathy at the AA RTW desk...and she broke my heart.:(
With all the changes I was making she suggested I start from the beginning and then she confirmed the rate was the same so I went with it. The real kicker is that the CDG-DOH-SEZ route at the end was accepted.

For all who have purchased these RTW tickets before, where does $6100 fall on the scale of good deals? Particularly when you plan on traveling to two of the places on your itinerary anyway and you were already going to be in Africa (for a previously arranged trip) at the start of your RTW.

And, someone mentioned that these are similar to South Africa RTW prices. How similar are they?

I posted the fares for WDH which are now equal to South Africa. Your fare is still cheaper and until recently would have been considered a fairly good deal. Check CAI though.

While it sucks, I would agree with this sentiment. There is a lot of merit in booking even with the current deals. These are still some of the best prices on the market. To put it in perspective, a BA I class fare on some random dates in November is going for $4639 RT just from JNB-ORD. The reverse is $6345. There was no way those fares in the $2K range would last. And I say this sadly, too, because I missed my chance on this one, not thinking change would come so soon...

Good to know! Just checking because we will already be in JNB. I'm kicking myself...

Thank you. That helps. I am trying to be reasonable about this. Seychelles are included in this itinerary and we were planning on going there next summer/fall. RT LAX-SEZ in R is $8200.

IMHO $6100 falls into the "Very Good Deal" category. Last year I happily paid about that for an ex-South Africa DONE5 all-in price

The ex-MPM fares fell into the "Excellent Deal" category. IIRC the only other deal to fall into that category was the ex-Sudan fares back in 2012 (I snagged one of them too:))
I've heard there was an excellent ex-Mauritius fare some time back too, but that was before my time here.

I'm sorry you missed out at the last minute SDandi. You were late to the party, but learnt really fast and seemed good to go. I especially liked your finish of CDG-xDOH-SEZ as your way of getting back to Africa:). (I visited SEZ on my way to KRT to start my ex-KRT DONE4 in 2013 - so I've ticked that place off my list already)

Indeed, that is true. What's more, the BA office there misinterpreted the rules so we all got tickets with a routing to which we were not entitled.

Misinterpreted - in our favour! How wonderful.
What was the misinterpretation and what were the fares like back then?

Hi! Can you check my route (Global explore fare)
DME (Russia)-MAD
MAD-PTY
PTY-MGA (surface)
MGA-MIA (stopover)
MIA-UIO (stopover)
UIO-GPS
GPS-GYE (stopover)
GYE-LIM
LIM-SCL
SCL-IPC
IPC-SCL(stopover)
SCL-SYD
SYD-BKK
BKK-NRT (stopover)
NRT-KHV (Russia).

Two airlines said me, that I should come back to DME (Moscow, Russia).
But in rules

D. Travel may originate at any point for which fares are published and must terminate at the same point, except that origin-destination surface segments are permitted as follows:
(a) within country of origin

There are parts of the rules which treat Russia east of the Urals (asia) differently to Russia west of the Urals (europe). Moscow is west and Khabarovsk is east.

That shouldn't have any impact on this rule, but some airlines might claim otherwise.

The routing looks fine. You have flights left over. Any reason you can't add on a KHV-OVB-DME at the end?

If I add KHV-OVB-DME it will be 17 flights.

So it is... I missed the IPC flights when I checked.
That's also where you have a problem. -UIO-GPS-GYE-LIM-SCL-IPC-SCL- is 6 flights in South America. You're only allowed 4.

Buzz! Wrong!
The Global Explorer rule differ from the Oneworld Explorer rules in this respect
The Global Explorer rule is maximum of 4 stopovers per continent, not a maximum of four flights

Why?

Flights and stopovers
- Select up to 16 flight segments on your round-the-world itinerary. Travel between two airports by surface transportation will count as one flight segment.
- Each tier includes the following stopover allowances:
Tier 1 – Minimum two. Maximum five (including a maximum of two within a region).
Tiers 2, 3 and 4 – Minimum two. Maximum four within a region.
All tiers – A maximum of two stopovers are permitted in the region of origin.

I can have more than 4 flights/segments is the South America region.

There's no such limit on Global Explorer fares that I can see.

Edit - ooops - I'm getting slow in my old age! :D

But now, how I can explain to airlines that my all route is ok?

And now, how I can explain to airlines, that all my route is ok?

Great circle mapper shows the total mileage as 34501, so this is a 39000 GE as far as I can see.

Is it a problem?
I can choose LGLOB39 39000 (ECONOMY ONLY)

Sorry Olga, but in my opinion your route is not OK
Airlines look for the most restrictive rules and I think they have you on this one:This rule implies you must return to the TC area in which you started.

The problem is Russia is split between two TC areas - European Russia in TC2 and Asian Russia in TC3.
Start in European Russia, you have to return to European Russia.
In other words start in TC2, you have to return to TC2.

Also, are you trying to keep your mileage under 34,000? Your itinerary is just over; remember surface segment miles have to be included - dme-mad-pty-mga-mia-uio-gps-uio-lim-scl-ipc-scl-syd-bkk-nrt-khv
Forget this comment - I see you're thinking of an LGLOB39, allowing you up to 39,000 miles

No, not a problem - just checking that you know that the surface sector has to be counted, which pushes it over 34000 miles.

It looks OK to me, although with Russia being split between TC3 and TC2 I can see that there is some slight ambiguity. It's the only case in which you don't start and end in the same TC, although the fact that the start and end are in the same country and that is explicitly allowed would seem to make it fine for me. Maybe try to get a different airline to ticket it?

Would this work for you?
dme-mad-pty-mga-mia-uio-gps-uio-lim-scl-ipc-scl-syd-nrt-bkk-ovb-dme

No,because I'm from KHV:)

So maybe you can start from somewhere just East of the Urals - in other words in Asian (TC3) Russia? Such as:
ovb-dme-mad-pty-mga-mia-uio-gps-uio-lim-scl-ipc-scl-syd-bkk-nrt-khv

Also, I have just remembered this from the fare rulesQF has a codeshare on TN PPT-AKL

So you could fly IPC-PPT-AKL-SYD instead of IPC-SCL-SYD

It does take one extra segment, but you get Tahiti and New Zealand

Or maybe I can make KHV-DME surface segment? Is it ok?

I like the way you think:)
But no - I seem to remember reading somewhere on FlyerTalk just recently that a surface segment is required to have a flight segment before it and a flight segment after it. (Makes sense to me.)
So a surface segment OVB-DME at the start won't work either:)

I know, but I need visa for New Zealand and Tahiti.
For this route I already need US visa, Shengen, Australia and Japan:(

And as I know, it's hard to find ticket IPC-PPT-AKL for this fare. For example, no tickets for January 2017.

Ah, of course. You are right. Economy ("L") class can be hard to find on those south pacific routes.

An air ticket cannot start or end with a surface sector.

You can always have a KHV-DME flight that is far into the future, to use the next time you go to Moscow?

Great idea! Thank you!:D

IIRC first segment cannot be a surface segment.

And if I understand right, I can change date of flight for free?

Yes.
Remember, the last flight must be within one year of the first flight