It appears that QF no longer handles ticketing for JL. AA does.

I've started playing with the OW site planning a RTW stating in CPT - I've put in CPT-MRU-JBO-LHR but LHR comes up with the red triangle -I've tried then doing DXB-LHR-ATH-LHR again red triangles for ATH and DXB. I thought this would be allowed.

If you mean CPT-MRU-JNB-LHR, then (a) you're missing an intermediate plane change at JNB outbound (no CPT-MRU service, only JNB-MRU) plus you can't return to the country of issue (South Africa) once you've left it - until the end. So plan on CPT-JNB-MRU-LHR and you should be okay.

ATH and DXB are both included in the list of cities in Europe where only one flight to/from London is allowed. DXB-LHR-ATH would be okay, as would LHR-DXB-LHR, or LHR-ATH-LHR, but not the route you've cited. Look at ATH-MAD or MAD-ATH (or DXB-AMM-ATH) as work-arounds.

Thanks - not sure where I got JBO from:confused:. The OW planner is just showing CPT-MRU as 1 sector. It's when I put in JNB-LHR that LHR flashes red. I might do this in F and I know BA don't do (or are ceasing MRU-LHR in F) so I'd have to route through JNB to get F.

If you double click on the triangle it will give you more information about the error. In your case you can't leave the country of origin more than once as per the rules of the xONEx tickets.

Also the system will allow you to put point to point entries that are not valid except via intermediary flights. So your CPT-MRU is valid but it would take 2 sectors to do it which you would find out when you started to enter the flights for each segment.

Thanks - I'll have another play with it later.

Does the use of co-terminals count as a surface segment? For example, is JFK-LHR and then LGW-NCE counted as two segments or three?

Sadly, it counts as three segments

(but BTW BA flies LHR-NCE and LCY-NCE, but not LGW-NCE, but I suspect you were just using it as example, not with the intent of flying it;))

Indeed :)

Edit: Solved my last problem but I have a much bigger question. After the first flight, all flights are supposed to be open right? So why do you need to book all 16 (or however many you are doing) flights through the oneworld planner from the beginning? Confused.

After the first segment; all flights MAY be open.

While OPEN segements can apparently be done with e-tickets it may not be straight forward and seems to confuse some agents/GDS's.

I finished a LONE4 two weeks ago, this was ticketed in August 2009. FOr the post August 2010 segemnt I used "dummy" dates.

As these segement became available to book, I simply revalidated the booking as appropriate, while keeping the orginal routing with all transits and stopovers intact.

Booking through AA was great as there was no service fee assessed each time I revalidated.

You could ostensibly, book a three segment routing that meets the fare conditions and then pay the USD125 re-ticketing fee (+ tax difference) each time you add more segments. The way I describe above is generally less costly.

There is no actual way to have open segments on an e-ticket issued by AA. BA and CX can ostensibly do it, not sure who else.
If you book a three segment routing and then later add on new stops, you are reissuing the ticket.

Other than the first flight, all segments may be left open on paper tickets, but BA will only accept paper tickets issued on BA 125 ticket stock as of January 1, 2011 on all BA operated flights, so the utility of this is severely limited.

Does anyone have a handy link to a price table for xONEx?

Huh? You sure? Is that only on xONEx tix? If all carriers started doing that, could be really inconvenient.

Positive: announcement from QF

It would be very inconvenient if every carrier started doing this, but for me it's a moot point as I need to fly BA for LHR-RUH :/