That's very interesting. May I ask if it's actually ticketed (i.e. e-ticket with ticket numbers) or is it sitting in the Dublin rate desk queue?

Yes.. ticket is issued .. I have flown JNB-HKG-NRT.....

If you'd done DFW-JFK-LAX-LHR you'd have squeezed in a few more miles ;)

I am puzzled by this ticket offer. I am not sure if I am missing anything from the offer.

The 6 continent F ticket cost roughly around 20K US $. Based on the fare it is pretty cheap ( Ex: if i book a ORD DEL ticket in F Class it cost roughly 12,000 US $. )

Are there any other catch in this ? Do I need to pay anything more. I looked through this thread and didn't get the details.

if I have to pay 20 K and get miles it is a great deal ...

Please provide me the details if any one knows more.

No catches
On top of the fare, you have to pay the various govt taxes, which depend on where you fly to. And you also have to pay any fuel surcharges (aka fuel fines) which depends on which airline tickets your itinerary and which airlines you fly.

The first post in this thread gives the basics of the ticket
The fare rules are available on the Oneworld web site - this is the link to them

I'm glad you think USD20,000 is pretty cheap. Personally, I think the approx USD8,300 the exact same ticket costs from The Sudan to be pretty cheap and USD20,000 to be pretty expensive - but not as expensive as the approx USD21,300 the exact same ticket costs down here in Australia!

Thanks Pandaperth.
I didn't mean the 20K was cheap money. Flying 24 segments on F with that amount of money is cheap. I have also checked from India it cost around 10K .. Which is a great deal.

I may plan a trip sometime ...

How much the sur charges ( Fuel fines) cost (approx) ?

Thank You

You are allowed no more than 16 segments these days
and it can be pretty hard to get genuine F flights these days - many airlines have eliminated it (for example LA) and others only have it for their 'flagship' type routes (for example QF only has it on its LHR and LAX flights). There is a thread in this forum on F flights.

The Indian govt imposes an additional tax on premium tickets originating there - can't remember the rate

Depends on various factors - anywhere from zero to say USD1000

You're welcome

I believe its still 10.3%. And I think they expanded it last year to coach tickets also iirc.

That's per segment, right?

NO - for the entire trip

I recently went through the motions of an ex-KRT DONE4 using the on-line tool (KRT-AMM-HKG-PER,BME-PER-DRW-PER-SYD-EZE-LIM-IPC-SCL-GYE-MAD-AMM-KRT)
YQ of USD309.08
plus a 'Tax description unavailable (SDEM)' of USD274.80 which may or may not be related to fuel fines

It should be possible to get YQ down to zero - say by booking on-line with a domestic AA segment as the first segment (so AA tickets) and then NO over-water AA flights and NO BA flights
And of course I'm sure if someone really wanted to - they could construct an itinerary where the fuel fines exceeded USD1000 :D

I've had BA award flights where the fuel surcharge was around $500-$600, so when you said "anywhere from zero to say USD1000" to me that sounds like per-sector. Unless the fuel surcharges for award flights are significantly more than on xONEx?

Mmm. Just looked in itasoftware at a business class return on BA LAX-LHR - and the fuel fines are USD592!!

Last year I posted the results of a quick study I did of the fuel fines vs ticketing carrier - see post #20 in fuel-surcharge-differences-xonex-fares

The main findings were:Things may have changed by now of course. Perhaps it's time for new study;)

Where to look next
 

Looking at travel plans for 2012-2013. Still working, so I cant do one long trip. Been thinking about somthing along the lines of the following.

JFK-LHR-TLV-MAD-LHR-DEL-HKG-SYD-CNS-SYD-SCL-EZE-MIA-SJU-DFW-JFK.

1) How long could I break this up into. I have read one year, I have read one year from ticketing, and I have read that the last segments can be open and booked at a later time?

2) Would I be violating rules if I broke the trip up (Say by returning to JKF after LHR, SCL, MIA)?

3) The cities are not set in stone. If fact they are all places I've been before, and wouldn't mind going back to.

4) I have not started to look and see if any seats would be available on these legs(Via EF). Just wanting to see if it is feasible, and how it would price out (in J) vs. Individual trips.

Thank you.

1. The ticket is good for one year. Since the move to e-ticketing, it's much harder to have open segments (requires paper tickets which the airlines are increasingly unwilling to produce.) However you can put "dummy" dates into the PNR and then just change them later at no cost.

2. You can break the trip anywhere. Many people (myself included) usually start in some less-expensive issuance country, travel around a bit, then come home and resume that pesky work thing, then continue/complete the trip at a later date. If you want to suspend the trip in some intermediate place, fly home on your own dime, then return and pick it up again, no worries.

3. (No comment.)

4. None of those segments, with the possible exception of SYD-SCL, should present any troubles with availability. Of course a lot can change in a year (and especially note new carriers/routes as Oneworld changes/expands.)

However you ought to use EF to check some prices; for example a DONE5 bought and started at TLV is something like $3700 cheaper than one bought and started in the US. By starting in Europe you might think about point (2) above - you could go Europe > Asia > SWP >- S America > N America/home > Europe, save money and achieve the break you're seeking. Plus, you only get two stopovers in the continent of issue; that would help you in North America, where your current itinerary would probably require more stopovers than allowed, and you'd run into a problem with the rules regarding stopovers in the country of issue prior to/after the first/last international segment. Have a look at the rules on the Oneworld site ASAP.

You may like to consider . . . HKG-CNS-SYD-SCL . . . Flying HKG-CNS with CX would free up a segment although the hard product is probably not going to be as good as that on HKG-SYD.