RTW inside an RTW
Aug 30, 2005 | 1:40 am
#31
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Madrid, Spain & Santiago, Chile
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 3,181
Originally Posted by alect
...the agent ignored them - instead of throwing them out she said she would leave them in for me to dispose of.
Note: before someone says "can't be done", let me say that yes, I agree, I know the OWE is different and this most probably wont fly, but with some (non-OWE) tickets it -can- be done. I have purchased several tickets MAD-EZE-SYD r/t in the past, flown MAD-EZE-MAD and much later flown EZE-SYD-EZE, all with the airline's ok, by the way.
Aug 30, 2005 | 4:19 pm
#32
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: YVR occasionally
Programs: OW Emerald (AA-EXP, BA-Gold)
Posts: 261
Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
If you have an electronic ticket and you decide to skip a segment, you need to pay a reissue fee to drop it.
ReelChief, your knowledge of RTWs has increased exponentially since you came to this forum just this summer! That's some very complex routings you've planned.
ReelChief, your knowledge of RTWs has increased exponentially since you came to this forum just this summer! That's some very complex routings you've planned.
Thanks! This discussion stimulated me to retry a third simultaneous RTW and by trying some new things, what I was trying to do finally works.
The main point is that I find that things I couldnt do by sticking only with ONEs becomes possible by throwing in at least one STAR. The possibility for backtracking (at the cost, of course, of unused miles) makes it possible for me with a ONE4, a ONE5, and one STAR3 to have an overall duration of one yearand yet be home for periods of 21, 21, 21, and 75 days. Without getting into details, the sequence of the tickets is (omitting the YVR-CAI-YVR at the beginning and the end): O1-S1-O2-S1-O2-S1-O1, where O1 is an AONE4 ex-CAI (covering EU-AF-SWP-NA), O2 is a DONE5 ex-BKK (covering AS-EU-NA-SA-SWP), and S3 is the Star3 (covering SWP,AS,NA,EU but in a bit of a jumbled order). Except for the AONE4, I havent booked the tickets and am relying on the OneValidator and the official Star calculator for validity.
My guiding principle has been to arrange to be where I want to be when I want to be there but this forum has encouraged me to throw in an unneeded LHR-DXB-LHR. As for FF credits (not yet being a member of either AA or BA), by carefully picking what segments go to which program it seems that I should get the AAPlat Challenge in 2005, reach EXP in mid 2006, and BA Silver then too. (The Star trips get me only to prestige status on AC- because only about 26K of the 39K is actually flown).
For other novices who might be trying nested trips I would suggest that you consider complementing ONEs with a STAR or twoat least it seems to work for me. However, the ticketing is yet to come. It has been fun and challenging to do thisthanks again to all of you for your help.