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Originally Posted by Calchas (Post 31154752)

(It's also not clear to me that a sum of one way fares will always be a valid way of calculating a cost of an itinerary. Several carriers no longer allow their fares to be used end-on-end in an unrestricted way.)

Haven't done any RTWs since I left BA, but the way I do this for partially used tkts issued by my current agency where used A-B-C will no longer price as a combined oneway fares, is to find the lowest applicable split tkt A-B and B-C oneways and add those together. It doesn't leave much over, if anything…

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Originally Posted by Dr. HFH (Post 31156334)

If the fare for the transportation used exceeds the fare paid, then there would (could?) be a negative refund, -- an additional collection.

I've not known Refunds departments to chase adcols - in my experience there's simply no refund due and that's the end of it.

There are the cases in the US of frequent hidden city ticketing abusers receiving invoices or suspension of their FF programme membership, and of BA sending debit memos to travel agents who have issued ex-EU tickets of which the last leg regularly gets thrown away, but I'm not aware of any such invoices/ADMs for partially used RTWs.

Bear in mind that the RTW is valid for a year and has a nosho fee; the last coupon could hypothetically still be used up to max validity, so any audit would have to wait until after the ticket had expired. There are also many other ticket types that often have unused coupons left, and nothing happens with those.

I'm sure if airlines saw systemic abuse of the fares then they'd act, like with the examples I gave. OtherwiseI think it just looks like common usage/abandonment.

Just to confirm, the last leg has to be taken within 12 months of the date of departure from the origin, not from the date of ticketing, correct?

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Originally Posted by andreiz (Post 31205382)

Just to confirm, the last leg has to be taken within 12 months of the date of departure from the origin, not from the date of ticketing, correct?

Yes. This means it could be up to 24 months from the date of ticketing.

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Originally Posted by andreiz (Post 31205382)

Just to confirm, the last leg has to be taken within 12 months of the date of departure from the origin, not from the date of ticketing, correct?

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Originally Posted by R2 (Post 31205461)

Yes. This means it could be up to 24 months from the date of ticketing.

The wording of the relevant rule is:

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7. MAXIMUM STAY
Return travel from the last stopover point must commence no later than 12 months after departure.

As a concrete example, for my last OWE ticket:

2016-late July: booked the ticket
2016-early August: paid and ticketed
2017-early June: took the first flight
2018-late May: took the last flight of the ticket

Should somebody update the wiki at the beginning of this thread? (I could help.) It lists airlines that don't exist anymore, doesn't list airlines that are now OW carriers, and contains a number of factual errors (i.e. it says if yours is a D ticket and there's no business class on a flight, you get downgraded to L, whereas in reality you get downgraded to B, which makes a difference). There are also a few obsolete links in the wiki.

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Originally Posted by AlreadyThere (Post 31232873)

You can do that @:-) ^
Anyone with 90 posts on FT can edit a wiki

Hi everyone, I'm sure this is answered in other places but I couldn't find it. My last OWE RTW trip was 2006-7 and at the time there was a website/chart that showed how much an Economy OWE would cost in various currencies. For example, I live in the US but might fly to, say, Egypt to purchase and start my ticket if it was significantly less. Does anyone know if that data still exists? Many thanks!

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Originally Posted by wsheldon (Post 31313186)

For xONEx pricing, EF (Expertflyer) is one of few places where you can find it.
OR, a painful way is to plug in your itinerary on the "oneworld" web site, follow it all the way to pricing.

As for the ex-CAI RTW, I am afraid that deal had gone long time ago. There had been several threads on that subject. When doing a search, I can find only this:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onew...ai-doh-qr.html

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Originally Posted by wsheldon (Post 31313186)

No. It used to be posted on the oneworld website, but was removed due to laws requiring displaying full price for air fare.

Think of where you want to go and then get the prices for those countries to shop prices.

Is HND still the cheapest place to start a DONE itinerary?

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Originally Posted by Wozza2404 (Post 31389945)

Is HND still the cheapest place to start a DONE itinerary?

Check out OSL or Pakistan

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Originally Posted by ajnaro (Post 31390602)

Check out OSL or Pakistan

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Originally Posted by pandaperth (Post 31392083)

Also Sri Lanka

Pakistan currently ~ USD $800 less than Sri Lanka for an IONE3.

when AT joins oneworld, do you think oneworld will file more OWE fare from african countries that are not currently served by oneworld?

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Originally Posted by pbd456 (Post 31396254)

when AT joins oneworld, do you think oneworld will file more OWE fare from african countries that are not currently served by oneworld?

Probably. I would expect them to be priced in USD where possible. I also don't think they will be particularly attractive. AFAIK there is limited competition on most international routes ex-Africa and oneworld must have learned their lesson from the numerous pricing 'events' in Africa in recent years.