Calchas was suggesting QF12 all the way through to SYD, ie -JFK-SYD-MEL-BNE-MEL-SYD-NRT
With QF12 out of JFK often delayed, connections to MEL can sometimes be missed with the flight released and MEL connections from JFK moved to the BNE or SYD flight upon landing in LAX.
Since you don't have a US transcon on the current plan, there is also the option of JFK-SFO-SYD, or if after September, SFO-MEL on some days.

QF fly BNE and MEL-NRT and SYD-HND, JL fly SYD-NRT and MEL-NRT
The QF BNE and MEL-NRT flights are day flights north, overnight south. HND is overnight in both directions.
JL has a day flight north from SYD and south to MEL and night flights north from MEL and south to SYD.

It was 6200 USD for DONE3 (+1000 for another continent), I guess it's a competitive price nowadays but some veterans here may know better.

It was TLV-HKG-MLE-HKG in one go - yeah just for points for that MLE turnaround. But regardless, I didn't have to present my itinerary before proceeding to check-in so it wasn't an issue.

Thanks Himeno for your reply....Yes I am aware of all of those options and have flown every which way home from the west coast and to be frank just hate all the options....As we are retired JFK-HKG-MEL suits us better as we spend a couple of nights in HKG and that eases the jetlag and then the overnighter from HKG arrives at 11.30am a most civil time when Melbourne airport is deserted and from landing to the Limo is about 15 minutes !!
So thats why we are looking to come home via HKG....Currently we are doing DONE5's from JNB but the rand has moved dramatically against us so thinking we may need to start from HND and trying to see if its is allowable to come home via HKG

This is a problem I believe. People have reported success in getting transits (<24 hours) ticketed like this, but I don't recall anyone every getting a stopover ticketed on similar itineraries.

The rules say "Maximum 2 stopovers permitted in the continent of origin" so I don't see why it would be a problem to route HND- ... RTW ... -oHKG-oHND.

That's fine.

What isn't fine as I understand it is HND-<Europe>-<N America>-o<Asia>-<SW Pacific>-<Asia>-<HND>.

Whether HND-<Europe>-<N America>-x<Asia>-<SW Pacific>-<Asia>-<HND> is fine may depend on who you ask.

???
Current rule says:

And neither of the visits to Asia is for travel between the Southwest Pacific and Europe/Middle East
Therefore the itinerary will not be valid

Thanks all...will call AA and report back but I guess the only option is to fly JFK-MEL-SYD-HND....or stay with orginating in JNB and pay the extra

Rang JL and they confirmed that this itinerary is in fact invalid so need to fly JFK-SFO-MEL etc....Thanks all for your advice

Hey everyone, I started research for DONE4, I thought I share base fare with rest of you.

Airport BF Currency
cai $2,490 (USD)
alg $6,994 (USD)
nrt $7,140 (USD)
kwi $7,157 (USD)
amm $7,193 (USD)
tlv $7,200 (USD)
ktm $7,228 (USD)
OSL $7,272 (USD)
khi $7,388 (USD)
isb $7,388 (USD)
cmb $7,441 (USD)
ARN $7,481 (USD)
AMD $7,499 (USD)
jed $7,602 (USD)
ist $7,685 (USD)
doh $7,991 (USD)
mpm $8,034 (USD)
jnb $8,222 (USD)
dxb $8,506 (USD)
lca $8,528 (USD)
hel $8,528 (USD)
dme $8,528 (USD)
mla $8,528 (USD)
lhr $8,641 (USD)
bgw $8,750 (USD)
akl $8,976 (USD)

Source: ExpertFlyer ; pulled on Apr 28 2018

Can anyone advise if any better ex-pricing point exist, compare to what I have pulled?
Additionally, Can someone share details on why ex-CAI are invalid? I am curious what is the reason behind barring ex-CAI fare? I tried searching but nothing relevant is coming up.

Thanks,

SEZ BA rtw fare valid?
 

Not aware of anyone ticketing it so far.

Possibly a TA could do it.

MLE or SEZ? While Male and Mahe are close in name they are not the same country, or even the same region.

MLE is a pretty bad place to start. For £15k + taxes, I wouldn't be worrying about a few tier points myself.

If someone gave you a ticket and you might as well use it, (making this up off the top of my head) maybe MLE-HKG-DEL-TYO-SIN-SYD-PER-SYD-LAX-JFK-GRU-JNB-LHR-DOH-CDG-DOH-MLE. Many of those flights don't have F. But all of them are over 2000 miles.

Also, just to be clear,
(1) BA has a twice weekly SEZ-LHR (Sundays and Thursdays if I remember correctly);
(2) MLE isn't even in the same IATA traffic conference as SEZ: SEZ is in TC2 (Europe/Africa) whereas MLE is in TC3 (Asia/Australasia). The pricing on the two cities is unrelated.

Very odd that EF shows you BA fares SEZ-SEZ. It tells me there are no fares on BA, AA, QR.https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...2733d8683c.png
UPDATE: I just tried it again, with only BA, and then it does show me fares. Interesting. I hadn't realized BA had fares, since all my searches typically look for fares on AA.

Per the other thread - https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onew...elles-rtw.html
Looks like this is an orphan fare from 2006 that didn't have an expiry loaded

Latest Pricing
 

Any suggestions for where can I find pricing for the Circle Pacific fares. I'm trying to find info and assuming I'm missing something but not obvious on the oneworld site!
If there are choices about where to buy from, also any advice?
Thanks

Sorry just looking through this thread and wondering related question on this "intercontinental departure/arrival" exceptions rule quoted here for xONEx routings

when it says "2 permitted in North America" does that mean i can route Asia-North America-South America-North America-Europe-Asia? I have booked xONEx before but only Asia-NA-Europe-Asia because I thought couldnt go from NA to SA and back to NA before going to Europe - always have a preference to go back to North America instead of flying directly from south america to europe particularly with the limited routing options.

and likewise for Asia - does that mean I can go Japan-Europe-NA-HKG-Australia-Japan?

The North America "second entry" option is only for itineraries that include South America, and one of the entries must be an intercontinental transit without stopover, e.g. HKG-xLAX-SCL....LAX-JFK-MIA.... LHR

The policy seems to have changed in practice regarding the "second Asia entry" issue. Previously, one of the Asia entries also had to be while in transit to another continent, typically Australia/NZ, but I'm not sure if stopovers in Asia following both entries are now allowed.

But according to the rule 4e of Oct 2017, 2 N.American etries are allowed.

Okay, my bad; I see they've removed the stopover restriction on the NA second entry. Good on 'em.

DONEX fares ex CGK?
 

CX9865.00 · DONE3Round-Trip · C
ExpandedCX9865.00 · DONEWC3Round-Trip · C
ExpandedCX11252.00 · DGLOB34Round-Trip · C
ExpandedCX11252.00 · DONE4Round-Trip · C
ExpandedCX11252.00 · DONEWC4Round-Trip · C
ExpandedCX12117.00 · DONE5Round-Trip · C
ExpandedCX13393.00 · DONE6

I currently have a rtw on precisely this route issued by the AA rtw desk in 2017. At the time there was some question whether the second entry to North America could have a stop-over, but it was approved by the rate desk.

Urggh the one time I want a RTW out of CAI :( I assume that means even a TA can't book one?

I guess the next best option is to hop to ALG for ~$300 economy and start from there. What a pain!

I don't have access to EF these days, but I can safely say that it will be somewhere in the range "Expensive" to "Very Expensive Indeed", probably towards the top end! :D

usd 11,305.83

Done4 hkg $11,306

On the other hand, Circle Pacific fares out of HKG are still pretty decent, e.g. DCIR22 at US$5241 and DCIR26 at $6394. Both are cheaper than their Japanese equivalents by several hundred dollars.

The 11,306 price is in USD. In HKG it's 88.740

why? Business travel?

KUL offers a better cost benefit ratio. In US$
DCIR22 4953
DCIR26 6043
DONE4 8590

Happy wandering
Fred