I believe airlines are allowed to file fares in a different currency if they want to. I did a random search on CZ fares from CAI to CAN, and the cheapest fare is filed in AED.

Hi,

Many thanks for this - much appreciated. I have only ever booked a RTW with BA (directly). Would I just call QR or is it best via a TA ? I've seen lots of comments about poor QR call centre customer service.

Not sure about this particular pricing, but typically for a RTW I make an international call to the airline with whom my first flight will be, in the country where that flight takes off from (eg Norway). Some how that seems cleaner than persuading a UK agent to sell a ticket originating in OSL etc. Note that if you buy a ticket internationally like that, you will need a credit card that doesn't add a foreign exchange margin.

I suspect in your case I'd try QR locally, and if that doesn't work then QR in Qatar (assuming the outstation has a different call centre, for some airlines this is the case and for some it just routes to the nightshift in the centre).

If your journey uses AA on one of the over-ocean legs you can also get great service from AA's specialist RTW desk.

You are welcome. In my experience, a TA can only issue an RTW using QR plate if QR has the first inter-TC segment (TPAC, TATL, or Europe/ME-Asia/Aus), so the autoprice default to QR as the validating carrier. You can try asking a different TA, or reverse the routing if possible.

Hi - I'm trying to use the tool to check if my itinerary is valid or not, but it's insisting that there isn't a single OW flight between Sydney and Thailand/Malaysia or Singapore which seems *quite* unlikely, so I thought I'd check here if this looks like a valid itinerary or if there are issues with it that I might not have spotted:

OSL-LHR-SIN-MEL-SYD-NOU-SYD-SIN-HKT-HKG-KIX-LAX-BOS-LHR-OSL

(first SIN stop transit only)

I'm within the 16 legs, but not sure if I have too many flights in Asia and Australia

Hoping I can use my BA vouchers to bring the pricing down even further!

I noticed that the other day as well. Tool couldn't find any flights for HKG-AKL, HKG-SYD, or NRT/HND-SYD.

Others will know the detailed rules but it sounds as though you have made it think you are backtracking in Asia-Pac. Sometimes the tool gets it wrong (actually there are two tools and they seem to calculate differently). Also, rather than go back to LHR have you thought of going OSL-HEL-SIN instead (on Finnair)? It's a nice airline, great airport and quite a convenient route.

You may also be hitting some availability constraints on those sectors. HKG and SYD have some bottlenecks at the moment as we found on our booking. I usually take a subscription to Expertflyer for a month or two while I'm setting up an RTW, and use it to check for D class (or whatever you are flying in) on specific flights before asking the tool to price the route and again before calling to book.

I believe TAs can ticket on any airline that has the fare. Back when a number of people were buying xONEx tickets starting in origins for which most of the OW airlines had withdrawn their fares but a few hadn't yet, people were using TAs to get them ticketed on OW airlines that still had the fare, with the ticketing airline not being the first flight and maybe only having a small flight in the routing (I can't recall all the details).

I agree with @SPO, except that I have an annual subscription to Expert Flyer, as I use it all the time. I would not rely on the online tool to verify if a routing is correct, as it is often wrong. I verify the routing against the rules myself, manually, then use Expert Flyer to identify the flights I want and verify availability in the appropriate booking inventory.

Suggestions:
If you are wanting to see more of Australia, you can change one of your SYD visits to BNE. If you have an unused segment, then you can add PER between SIN and MEL
The wiki to the The Oneworld Explorer User Guide - FlyerTalk Forums might give you more ideas

or indeed CNS providing you aren�t going there in marine stinger season. Might be a nice contrast to Sydney.

Egypt has devalued the EGP several times in the last year which means that Egypt is again a good starting place for xonex tickets.

Thanks everyone - this is super helpful, some great tweaks here and i'll definitely take a subscription on ExpertFlyer - great tip

My primary question is where do I actually book a DONE3 starting in Cairo? The on-line itinerary builder on oneworld is useless.

First two segments would be on QR.

General planned itinerary is:

CAI-xDOH-xLAX-oLAS-xLAX-oJFK-xDFW-oLAS-xDFW-oHNL-oTYO-oBKK-xHKG-oLHR-oCAI

Any hiccups on that itinerary?

Thx.

Looks like 7 NA segments.
I usually book through the AA RTW desk, although they may at times require an AA over water segment.