Thanks...cheers!! :) I will schedule accordingly to have mainline China business as well to cover the 7 days for ticketing time..... ^

Allow for surface sector between Lima/Cancun
 

I would like to purchase Circle Pacific DCIR29SA ex-HKG.

is the following routing valid?

Option 1
HKG-xSYD-xSCL/surface/CUN-JFK-HKG

Option 2
HKG-xSYD-xSCL-LIM-CUZ-xLIM-UIO-MIA/surface/CUN-xJFK-HKG

From a quick glance both are well under the mileage limit. Option 2 appears to have three stopovers in SA (LIM,CUX,UIO), so you will to pay for the third.
As for the surface sector between SCL-CUN, this is a surface sector between 2 regions(or continents) and counts as a stopover in each region.
[QUOTE]v) Where a passenger disembarks at one point and re-embarks at a subsequent point enroute, the points count as a single stopover
Where there is a surface sector between two regions, this will count as a stopover in each of the two regions. However, for the purpose of the total stopovers permitted, this will count as one stopover only.[/QUOTE]

Thanks Jerry. My travel agent told me that I cannot surface between 2 continents. From your reply it seems to be ok to surface between SCL & CUN. Right?

[QUOTE=jerry a. laska;17831073]From a quick glance both are well under the mileage limit. Option 2 appears to have three stopovers in SA (LIM,CUX,UIO), so you will to pay for the third.




As for the surface sector between SCL-CUN, this is a surface sector between 2 regions(or continents) and counts as a stopover in each region.

That's how I read it. That particular rule uses the term regions instead of continents (but lists the continents as the regions). See:
Again your TA may be applying/confusing xonex rules with circle pacific. But even with an xonex only transoceanic surface sectors between certain TC's are prohibited.

Ok...I posted this question as well in the HKG section under travel agencies as well. I am going to HKG in the next several days, and as the OW pros here has mentioned HKG is a good place to start from for the DCIR26.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a travel agent in HKG that is good to work with for ticketing? I will be staying at the JW Marriott on HK island. thanks...

See this post for one recommendation:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/17395795-post51.html
You could PM that poster for additional info.

You could also try to arrange the booking through the AA rtw desk and tell them you will be purchasing in HKG and then purchase through the AA GSA in HKG:
See also:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...t-visited.html
I think they have moved to the above address since this 2008 post.

Thanks...I will look into that!! :)

Hi all! I am wanting to do the pacific circle using DCIR26 for HKG-JFK-SYD-HKG but seems this will be only around 24000 miles, any suggestions to add more stops in between to make use of near 26000 miles?

Thanks :)

Welcome to Ft Justintin
Your itinerary is in fact only 22,602 miles according to gcm

So one option is to get it below 22,000miles and save yourself some money by buying a DCIR22 instead of a DCIR26 - for example HKG-ORD-LAX-SYD-HKG

If you play around with gcm you can explore possibilities for your DCIR26 - such as HKG-NRT-JFK-LAX-SYD-AKL-BNE-HKG

My partner I have been flying a DONEx annually; before the huge rate increase a few years ago we used DCIRx a lot. We have limited vacation, so we generally only allot 2 or 3 days per stop-over. If it's a place we've not been before, we try to use that limited time to get a feel for the place and decide if we want to go back. If we've been there before, then we target something we didn't get to do before, or something we know is very fun. So, for us, limited time per place is fine.

Very good advise. Ever since the big price increase, my partner and I have been doing DONEx trips that start outside North America for the significantly lower cost, plus the ability to have multiple stop-offs in North America. As you suggest, we have a long (~6-8 month) stop-off at home, making one DONEx into two trips.

An intriguing idea. I have the AA RTW desk set it up, then find someone to issue it (usually an AA office somewhere). A big advantage is that then the RTW desk is happy to make changes. If CX issues the ticket, I'm assuming they couldn't issue something set up by AA (different systems)? The one time I used an external TA to set things up, the AA RTW desk couldn't touch it, and it was a nightmare.

AAs HKG desk is perfectly good and accepts not present credit cards (just need to fill out and send back a word doc)...

You will run into probs if you try a non-valid itin though (dont ask)

Terrific! (I thought I'd read here that they didn't, so it's great to learn they do). Thank you.

JQ (non QF codeshare)?
 

Is it possible to use JQ flights that aren't available as QF codeshares? I'm looking into an ex-HKG xCIRCxx in lieu of an xONEx, and am thinking it would be nice to visit the new Hilton Gold Coast or maybe Noosa, so I'd want to fly via OOL or MCY, and these seem to be served only by JQ codes.

(I could fly to BNE and take the train, at least for the Gold Coast, but that seems much more difficult.)

E.g., hkg-nrt-dfw-san-lax-mel-ool-syd-akl-syd-hkg shows at 25,987 per Great Circle Mapper.