New GIB Fares
 

Just received the new GIB Fares (ex taxes):-

MONE3 - GIB£1274
MONE4 - GIB£1529
MONE5 - GIB£1847
MONE6 - GIB£2165

MGLOB 26 - GIB£1209
MGLOB 29 - GIB£1529
MGLOB 34 - GIB£1849

DONE3 - GIB£2866
DONE4 - GIB£3185
DONE5 - GIB£3567
DONE6 - GIB£4076

DGLOB 34 - GIB£3185

AONE3 - GIB£4331
AONE4 - GIB£4777
AONE5 - GIB£5350
AONE6 - GIB£6051

AGLOB 34 - GIB£4777

My source for these fares was [email protected] in case you need more information.

Happy flying

Looks like coach actually went down but everything else went up.

Here are the old fares:

MONE3 - GIB£1499
MONE4 - GIB£1799
MONE5 - GIB£2079
MONE6 - GIB£2379

DONE3 - GIB£2499
DONE4 - GIB£3099
DONE5 - GIB£3499
DONE6 - GIB£2999

AONE3 - GIB£4160
AONE4 - GIB£4590
AONE5 - GIB£5140
AONE6 - GIB£5820

Frustratingly the largest rise is on the DONE3 which is the fare I want http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Is GIB still the cheapest (or one of the cheapest) location to purchase OWE tickets from? Or are there better locations? We bought our OWE RTW tickets there last year and were thinking about doing it again this year - next month.

Thanks.

The current cheapest for first or business class is in your backyard - CAI. Fares from GIB have gone up substantially.

You can download an Excel spreadsheet with the current fares and a currency conversion program from http://www.exmo.net/OWE-030301.xls .

Thanks, ExMo! I did download your spreadsheet. The CAI prices are dated Nov 2001 - and yes those are extremely attractive for the "A" tickets. Do you know if there are any more recent ones by any chance?

Same question for AGLOB3 and AGLOB4 RTW fares.

Now if I can just get there and back before the war....

Thanks!

Great spreadsheet - what a help http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Anyone have a contact with a TA in CAI - can't believe that F, is the same price as J in GIB !!

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The prices were current as of the 03 Aug 2002 Sabre files that were recently obtained by UserMark. I believe they are in effect today.

I, too, plan on making a quick trip there to p/u a ticket -- hopefully before the war starts.

Look again. Here are the fares ex-CAI in GBP.

Class > AONE* DONE*
3 cont £2,885 £2,397
4 cont £3,328 £2,663
5 cont £3,774 £2,929
6 cont £4,217 £3,196


Book and ticket through BA.

Would someone please decode MONE3 etc,
Thanks

The base OWE fare code is ONE. It is preceded by a letter: A, D or M, to indicate the class of service: first, business and coach, respectively. It is suffixed with a number: 3, 4, 5 or 6, to indicate the number of continents purchased. Thus, MONE3 is a 3 continent, coach Oneworld Explorer fare.

The Global Explorer fare is similar using a base of GLOB and a suffix number indicating the thousands of miles purchased.

Will take up advice & book via BA Travel shop in UK & collect in CAI.

The great thing with CAI over DEL (where I was thinking of buying as well) is only 15k BA miles to get there. DEL = 25k http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

With current BA miles, looks like I'll get 2 x LHR-CPT in J with BA for Oct wedding trip + pick up PLT with AA & 40k miles on the same trip in F.

Happy flying http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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On the topic of CAI...does anyone know what tax is applied to these tickets?

Too bad there's not a cost-effective way to take advantage of the CAI fare from a LAX home base.

I'd be really interested to hear how you get on doing this. If the BA Travel Shop co-operate I think we have found a cheap and easy route to cheap OWE tix! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif

Thanks to the sharp eyes of headintheclouds a few typos have been found and corrected in the fare conversion spreadsheet. These involve Gibraltar, Latvia, and Lebanon. All the errors were obvious if looking at these countries (e.g. 6 continent fare less than 3 continent, etc.). It is only worth re-downloading the sheet if you are considering one of these countries as an origin.

Sorry for the problems but typing has never been one of my strong suits. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

The trip (which includes business @ the beginning) has slipped two weeks. Expected departure is now April 11. Will keep you posted.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif Bad news http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Both BA & AA told me that booking flights through the UK offices - even when collecting & paying the fare in CAI - would mean charging the UK rate and not the local on !!

The only way around this was to call BA in CAI (00-202-5780741/2/3/4/5) and talk with them about the booking.

Odd that AA ATW desk stated that ticket must be booked in CAI. Where the ticket is issued, not booked determines the price. My AA contact told me so, even 2 days ago. So, can one fax the BA Cairo office with an itinerary and credit card details for collection at a later date?

That's what they told me - I gave them itinerary & they came back with a few hours with the price inc tax. Thing is they couldn't guarantee the fare until they had the CC as the exchange rate is volatile @ present. tax I was being quoted seemed high too but maybe that was just my route.

Ticket price should be quoted in Egyptian £s. The exchange rate to British £s has fallen considerably (>15%) since the first of the year. The quoted fare shouldn't vary with the exchange rate -- just what you will end up paying in £ Sterling will vary.

BA LDN quoted the UK rate converted to EGP & AA LDN told me that they would do the same.

BA CAI told me that the fare was the listed one but with the tax it added 20% http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

In the end ran out time to sort this out so will have to look at it again for later in the summer.

BA LDN quoted the UK rate converted to EGP & AA LDN told me that they would do the same.

BA CAI told me that the fare was the listed one but with the tax it added 20% http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

In the end ran out time to sort resolve this before having to leave the UK on business, so will have to look at it again for later in the summer.

Thing is, by having time to replan I've been able to add more miles and have more non-flying time so all is not lost http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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I am trying to sort out a RTW at present ex-CAI which I reserved in London.

UK came back with £7000+, but when I told them that I was collecting it in CAI they re-priced it at EGP39635.

But now BA in CAI are re-working the price as they have had increases recently. This has taken nearly a week, but they are still working on it.

I will fax cc details to CAI and go and collect it from BA office.