[MENTION=165293]pandaperth[/MENTION] - When will you be in CMB? between 11 and 17 Nov?

Just wandering (again)
Fred

Yes!
I fly in to CMB on Oct 19th
and am scheduled to fly out on Nov 17th
(I might change that to a day or two earlier)
So, yes - let's set up a meet :D

Currently vegging out in lovely Vung Tau, Vietnam

Too bad I will be leaving Perth late Nov. CMB I might get a chance to catch you if I were to fly HKG-CMB-NRT-...

Don't forget to visit Sofitel Legend Grand Metropole in Hanoi if you travel to far North Vietnam. Greatest hotel to spend Accor Plus voucher if you managed to have some.

Yes, true, thanks for advice. It's 770 business miles longer, which is substantial for my last minute run.

But I have to forfeit the bonus RDM when credit to AA, as only Sri Lankan airlines flies CMB-NRT. Well, that I consider the bonus is less than 100 USD.

SYD-PER not cheap flight, hmmmm.

Yes, especially the difficult to use SWU, bonus RDM only lead to a devalued redemption table. Yes...

I value AA EXP for Pier First when I buy cheap Oneworld tickets originated from HK, that alone might not justify for such calculative flying.

Hand one "thank you coupon" from AA when you got your EXP immediately after you got on the plane. Would improve the crAAppy FAs.... hardware wise I like the swirl chair in 777-300er F, best working desk in the air. Food wise I already got full in Pier First. :D

I don't know AA scheme well.
Do you book AA flight number for DEL-NRT ?
If a JL flight number is required, CMB-NRT is bookable as JL7076.

Probably same situation, and not cheap MEL-PER.
NRT-MEL-AKL is another candidate.

Thanks all for supportive answers.

Extremely interesting about the North America 2 stopover new rules with the Asia transfer rule, seems I can get both with my airline.

Europe-HKG-MLE-HKG-CTS-HKG-PER-xHKG-USA...

The round the world desk of the ticketing airline seems to be able to change the xHKG to be a stopover, giving me Europe-Asia-Europe-Asia(Only HKG)-USA...

My question is, would that be any problem after this rtw is re-issued? That is, after my stopover in HKG no one will catch me in Hong Kong airport or USA and afterwards... right? Or if I need to further re-issue my ticket nobody would say "geez... how come you got HKG stopover, your ticket is invalid". Right?

I think I can self answer my question, the rtw ticket probably won't have any issue as I have got ticket involuntary reissued to violation of rtw rules due to schedule change or QR ban recently. So should be fine. I thought of editing (deleting) my own post but on second thought could leave it shall it be informative to future forum members.

It's almost a week my issuing carrier still cannot reprice my ticket saying that they need to ask individual carriers for YQ. Is this normal?

By the way I have not deliberately avoid BA. Boy, AA has to be avoided for EQD and RDM fare credits... BA has to be avoided for YQ... UL has to be avoided for no elite bonus on AAdvantage. I started to have problem planning...

By the way, fare information is all lost on my ticket even from issuing carrier website, but still AA can credit me by bogus fare even on reissued rtw... Anybody please enlighten me on this issue?

The fare information will be available on the original ticket.

I've never heard of this. May I ask which airline?

I thought that RTW tickets issued by airlines other than AA, with AA coded flights credited to AA, would earn based on distance and not fare.

RJ

There have been many posts of the two crediting methods. You may refer to this lengthy post for more information.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...-miles-aa.html

My own experience with a DONEx booked on RJ has been quite different. AA had taken over the ticket, but when I wanted to make some route adjustments, AA insisted that RJ had failed to collect slews of taxes and fuel surcharges and wanted thousands. RJ reissued with only the $125 change fee. It took a long time, though.



I had been following that thread and thought that it was for AA-issued tickets where sometimes the fare method and sometimes the distance method applied, whereas for non-AA issued tickets, it was always distance. Perhaps I accidentally missed a bunch of posts there, or simply misremembered what I'd read.

Still no reply from RJ for rtw re-issue. It has been a week. I am dying here as I suppose to fly in two days.... and need to apply for a VISA.

Any suggestions?

I am thinking to have QR to re-ticket my rtw. CX refused earlier but I didn't push hard enough maybe.

CX ticketing counter at airports can do it for a fee (I did mine at LHR)