I am in the early phase of planning a RTW and I wonder if there is a list with connections between continents? For me the most challenging continents are South America and Africa. For the others I can easily find plenty of connections. Here's what I found so far:

South America:
from/to EUR: some flights, mainly MAD/LHR
from/to SWP: SCL-AKL and SCL-SYD
from/to ASIA: no flights
from/to NA: some flight, mainly LAX/MIA
from/to AFR: no flights

Africa:
from/to EUR: JNB/CPT-LHR/MAD
from/to SWP: JNB-SYD
from/to ASIA: JNB-HKG
from/to SA: no flights
from/to NA: no flights

Please help me to complete the list or tell me where I can a complete one?

Thanks

Welcome to FT.

http://www.oneworld.com/flights/where-we-fly/

Click on the "Interactive Network Map"

Hope this helps.

Better still, you can use the excellent MileageMonkey tool

Just use the OWE Planner section to display the list of all oneworld flights between continents. For instance, to display flights between South America and Europe plug in ~sam and ~eur in the From: and To: fields and hit Go! There's further explanation on how this works that you can bring up using the "?" button.

There's a separate thread on the tool here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...ml#post6954703

Thank you for your answer. I knew MileageMonkey, but I didn't know that it has this function already.

Help with booking my ONE itinerary...
 

Hello Flyertalk! Your input and comments on here have really helped me plan my own RTW itinerary. However, i still have a few questions and need your help!

1) Planning on flying to South Africa via London (One World Explorer via British Airways). Then to get to Brazil, it seems like I have to go back to London then onwards to Rio de Janeiro. Will there be issues with backtracking here?

2) If I arrive in London Stansted or Gatwick and then out from Heathrow, will that count as a surface segment?

3) Purchasing additional segments - The T&C says up to 2 additional segments can be purchased per continent. So this means in addition to the 16 segments, I can purchase 12 more (2 x 6 continent fare)?

4)Cost - someone had uploaded a spreadsheet online comparing the cost of ONE fares depending on country of departure. Based on that, I was planning on flying to NZ using a buddy pass and starting my trip there. The savings versus starting in Canada is significant. Can anyone confirm that there is a difference? One world website makes it seem like cost of fare is dependent only on fare class and number of continents.

Thank you so much for your help! I look forward booking my trip and contributing here with my own experience.

Sophia

I can help with some questions but others with far more knowledge and experience will come along with more detail.

You cannot backtrack from one region to another. There is, however, an exemption. See rule 2(e)(3) here. It would help if you provided some more information as to what continents (or oneworld regions) you're planning on visiting.

It will be called a surface segment but it will still be deducted from your maximum 16 segments maximum. Therefore, it's best to avoid 'cross-city' airports if you can.

No. The option to purchase additional segments only relates to the maximum segments per region. For example, you may have a maximum of six segments within North America; four within South West Pacific. So you could purchase, for example, an additional segment in North America such that you had a total of seven. However, you still cannot have anymore than 16 segments for the entire intinerary.

There certainly is a big difference between some countries. Here is a list compiled by a Flyertalk member, I believe. However, it may not be entirely up-to-date. If you're looking for a Economy fare, look under the heading LONEx; if Business, look for DONEx; if First, AONEx, where x is the number of continents you're visiting (either four, five or six).

Hi

I'm just about to book my first RTW that does't start in the UK - a LONE3 from HEL, with initial flight on AY.

Anything I should think about? Can I just book this automatically online on the Explorer tool on Oneworld.com, or do I need to phone up?

Current plan is HEL-HKG-SIN-NRT(via HKG)-ATL(via DFW)-POS(via MIA)-LHR(via MIA)-GYD-overland-AMM-HEL(via TXL)

Been fiddling around with it for days, trying to optimise for price (ie avoiding longhaul APD into UK, or BA YQ surcharges). Comes down to whether I really fancy a long & convoluted trip to GYD (Baku) via Moscow on AB & S7, or whether I'll pay the YQ and fly direct on BA. I'll get more Avios to partly offset the extra cost I guess.

Comes out at €2780, although I could knock it down to €2590 if I did the Moscow option. Or €2900 if I do a direct flight from POS-LGW on BA

I reckon I'm getting pretty good value on this, and some interesting places. (SIN & ATL are for work, the others are visiting friends / tourism). Thoughts welcome!

Question about pricing:

I always thought that there was some difficulty with pricing the cheaper xONEx tickets when one doesn't actually live in the starting country. I remember there's some talk how travel agents from Canada are exempted from this rule so we need to use a Canadian travel agent if we wanted to book an xONEx with the fare of the starting country (which is cheaper than the fare if started from one's residence).

Is this not the case anymore?

Related to t1nt1n's question: if one uses the online tool for an origination, does that solve the problem? For instance, it appears that Japan (surprisingly!) is a good place to start an RTW in Asia right now due to the devaluation of the yen. If I build the itinerary using the tool, and send it off for ticketing, will it automatically price and ticket in JPY at the JPY local price? Or will my billing address in another country trigger the repricing?

The Canadian exemption was recently removed (as of the re-issued fare rules on 1-Nov-2012)

So the remaining options for getting the lower, point of origin, fare are:
- use the online tool
- get the ticket issued by a travel agent/airline office in the country of origin

Unfortunately the online tool has many bugs and also disallows some itineraries that are in fact valid - but it can work for simple itineraries
Some have reported getting a simple itinerary ticketed using the tool and then later paying the USD125 change fee to get the ticket the way they wanted it in the first place.

For ticketing an ex-South Africa itinerary, some make use of the AA GSA there. Same for ex-Egypt.

The tool assumes you are booking it from where the trip starts, regardless of what the billing address says. I have booked a number of DONE3's via the tool out of NRT and ICN while located in (with billing address) CBR - which the airline issuing the ticket also knew.
A few years ago, when QF still issued tickets booked via the tool for JL, a credit card issue popped up and QF Tokyo asked QF Sydney to contact me, I was still charged the ex japan price in JPY.

The problem is all the bugs in the tool. Since AA took over ticketing for JL, almost every option to start out of Japan will result in a bug which prevents booking completion.

If we can use a TA local to the starting country then I don't think this is a big deal. If I recall, I think back then even this wouldn't work as the TA would have to charge us the price of our residence and only Canadian TAs were allowed to charge the starting country fare?

Thanks!

No, the cost is based on where the ticket is issued. In the vast majority of cases, the ticket is issued where you happen to be (normally your country of residence).
An ex-NRT ticket issued in Japan will cost the Japan price in JPY.
An ex-NRT ticket issued in America will cost the US price in USD.
The now gone "Canadian Exception" allowed for an ex-NRT ticket to be issued in Canada and cost the Japan price in CAD.

The main problem is finding a travel agent in the country of departure who is willing to do everything electronically/over phone without wanting to see the card.

ex-JNB QF
 

Back in December I booked a DONE5 business class out of Johannesburg on Qantas. I couldn't pay for it online for some reason, so I called the local Qantas office (in Tokyo) and they sent an email to the Joburg office with my credit card details, and half a day later I got a confirmation email from Joburg and I was good to go.

Since then I've needed to change dates on my flights at least 5 times, and it hasn't cost a thing. I didn't feel like asking directly, but after talking to them so many times it came out that on biz class they don't charge for date changes (they do on economy) but they still charge for routing changes - US$125 each time they have to redo the ticket, which can include as many changes as you want in one go.

There aren't any change fees to change date, time, flight or carrier. The only fee is if routing is changed (which includes changing a less then 24h "connection" to a stopover).
I've made changes to LONE4's, DONE3's, LGLOB26's and DAS13's with AA, BA, QF, JL and CX over the years for no cost.
I've made one routing change on an LONE4 for no cost, but that was due to rioting in BKK and a number of airlines and governments having wavers and warnings out.
There are however reports of some airlines charging "service" fees to make the free changes.