RTW Fares
Jan 10, 2004 | 10:35 pm
#1
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RTW Fares
Through the generous help of other FTers, I learned of the ability to purchase RTW tickets at different prices in different counties. As a result, on a recent trip to Asia, I purchased an AONE3 in the U.S. for about US$8,500, and a second AONE3 in BKK for about Bht 240,000 (or about US$6,000).
I'd be curious to learn what the cost of an AONE3 is in other countries. Other than BKK, where are there other opportunities to save? Are there any places where they are more expensive than in the U.S.?
I'd be curious to learn what the cost of an AONE3 is in other countries. Other than BKK, where are there other opportunities to save? Are there any places where they are more expensive than in the U.S.?
Jan 10, 2004 | 10:50 pm
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The US is one of the more expensive places to buy a ticket however, for the first class ticket you bought, the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Morocco, the Euro zone countries and a few other places are more expensive.
You can download an Excel spreadsheet from here and check prices for various types of tickets from different locations around the world.
You can download an Excel spreadsheet from here and check prices for various types of tickets from different locations around the world.
Jan 11, 2004 | 12:26 pm
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The .exe is actually a self extracting ZIP file. You can open it with WinZip and extract the XLS from there without running the self extractor. However, you can also download a straight ZIP file from here. This is actually about 70K smaller as it does not contain the self extractor code.
Note that the spreadsheet contains macros. These are needed to do the downloading of the currency translations and the sorting of the fares. They are not protected so you can read them (assuming you speak Visual Basic) to see that I'm not trying to erase your hard drive or do other dastardly things to your PC.
Note that the spreadsheet contains macros. These are needed to do the downloading of the currency translations and the sorting of the fares. They are not protected so you can read them (assuming you speak Visual Basic) to see that I'm not trying to erase your hard drive or do other dastardly things to your PC.
Jan 12, 2004 | 12:27 pm
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I got to tell you, that spreadsheet is pure genius. Any way of finding out when prices change? For example, will this spreadsheet be updated when Cairo fares change? I dont know who spent the time to creat this but I love it!
Ive created a similar spreadsheet that calculates miles between airports, but unfortunately it only contains data that Ive input myself, that Ive looked up, Id love to be able to hook it up to some online database that would download all that info, but unfortunately dont know where I could get all that info.
Ive created a similar spreadsheet that calculates miles between airports, but unfortunately it only contains data that Ive input myself, that Ive looked up, Id love to be able to hook it up to some online database that would download all that info, but unfortunately dont know where I could get all that info.
Jan 12, 2004 | 1:29 pm
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