That strikes me as being a fairly good template for how I may go about things. Thank you.

Wow. Super impressive. My dates the rates are AUD700+ which is, well, limiting. But I'll keep an eye on it. Thank you.

Once, when the fare had increased, and before flying the first segment, I was able to change the routing of the second and a few later segments paying only $125 plus taxes. Is that in accord with the rules, or was I just lucky?

Not since 2012 at least. Earlier it was allowed and in fact you could even change the first segment (I have a 2008 rule sheet that allowed that)
But as danger reported just today up thread it does seem that sometimes you can get away with that even now.

Is name changes allowed with xONEx tickets? Of course, before using 1st coupon. The rule sheet mentions name changes only under group travel, I'm wondering about individual booking. And would there be recalculation of fare if it's allowed?

A name change on any individual ticket is always a reissue. And a reissue means repricing.

It would be an exchange, not a reissue.

The xONEx tickets allow the route after the first flight to be changed without repricing. That too would be a reissue or an exchange.

I do not deny the accuracy of your conclusion (of which I have no knowledge) but a reissue/exchange is not always a reprice.

supposed to fly dfw anc in a class on a done4 yesterday. planned to spend 25 hours in anc to do a day trip. flight was cancelled and rebooked today on the same day in Y with 1 hour at anc. nothing can be done. being tortured. dont even.get MCE..

Forgive me, but why not cancel the segments and go somewhere else?

I don't know what sort of miles or points you get for twice DFW-ANC in Y but life is too short to spend it in Y.

cx said i need to pay for rerouting, will call aa rtw when it opens.

Also worth saying that staff at the airport have much wider authority to amend your route than a call centre, including ignoring fare rules or other restrictions. They may be willing to endorse you onto AS.

there is no space to.anc from any airlines except sy.

aa rtw desk says they can remove the.2.sectors without fee, but i will need to.pay 125 for route change to.add.it back

In my own experience over several decades, ticket reissues and fare repricing are two different things. Tickets need to be reissued for all sorts of reasons. In some cases (e.g., involuntary changes), the new ticket is an even exchange for the previous ticket. In other cases (e.g., voluntary changes), the new ticket must have the taxes and carrier-imposed fees recalculated, so there may be some add/collect or refund, but the base fare remains unchanged. Per the fare rules, if you change the first flight, or voluntarily change the route after flying the first flight, you pay $125 plus or minus any difference in taxes and carrier-imposed fees, but the base fare remains unchanged.

Since DONEx allow free date/time/carrier changes, why not change the DFW-ANC and subsequent flights on a later date?

The problem with that is the AA flights to ANC are seasonal, running for 7-12 weeks over summer.

Was the poster scheduled for the last flights of the year, then? I could see how that would be a problem. If it was me, I wouldn't fly that distance in Y. Either reschedule or reroute.

A space did come up a few hours before the flight.

did DFW ANC DFW with 1 hour turn...
I had to fly to BOS after DFW.

CX RTW said that I need to pay a routing change fee since AA did rebook me on DFW ANC the next day.

AA RTW said they could drop DFW ANC DFW for me at no cost, but I would need to pay a routing change fee to add back the segment. As my remaining ticket is DFW BOS LAX DOH BCN DOH OSL DOH DUR.

any rerouting would be complicated since the married segment logic by QR, and the low YQ that is currently in the ticket, together with the limited number of direct flight from BOS. It seems the best to fly the same day turn and credit the flight to JL and be done. After all, I have been to ANC 9 times. The main reason to go to ANC is that I had expected the revenue based earning wont start until Oct 1, and I was hoping to pick up 12000 miles per segment on DFW ANC DFW.

Exactly what I had been planning to do until I found no space in the right buckets on the DFW/ANC/DFW flights (and with the AAdvantage program earning change, I've switched to QRPC).

A member on Australian Frequent Flyer has posted some good news for those poor souls who purchase their Explorer fares (among others) from Qantas ex-Australia.

Qantas is abolishing the YQ on tickets issued from 1 September.

http://www.qantas.com/agents/dyn/qf/info/201609/0901

It's being discusssed here on FT - in the Qantas Forum http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qanta...rld-fares.html

Only ex-Australia. Not ex-NZ or ex- anywhere else.

Not sure if this has been discussed previously.

Has anyone had any luck booking segments in A class with QR when flying Middle East segments. More specifically, trying to use the online tool to book a CAI-DOH segment and its forcing me into economy.

Fare rules state that QR flights in the ME with no D class can be booked as A class. If I make the reservation over the phone will they allow me to book A class?

Thank you!

Welcome to Flyer Talk OWRTW :)

That is a known bug with the online tool. You'll need to book directly with an airline or through a travel agent to get A class on QR middle east flights on a business class RTW.

Thank you for the welcome and clarifying this issue Kiwi Flyer! :)

This should no longer be a bug. I emailed oneworld about this exact thing years ago when QR joined oneworld and they did fix it.

Have you tried checking different dates?

Are you sure the flights have availability in A?

QR seems to be restricting the A bucket quite tightly of late.

Tried to change the dates but no luck in finding availability in A. I also tried to look for availability in A between DOH-DXB and couldn't find any on the 18 flights they run per day.

Do you mean restricting the A bucket to RTW tickets?

The majority of flights between DOH-CAI only have A as their premium cabin. The same goes for DOH-DXB.

I mean QR often limits availability in the Alpha ("A") bucket. QR uses the A bucket internally for discount first class fares, and so QR tends to keep the numbers in it tightly capped.

For instance, the availability for Friday two weeks for now is [as seen from an office in London],
For QR 1304 and QR 1302, we have AL, meaning alpha class is full but open to wait listing.

(There is no mechanism to restrict what kind of fare uses the bucket, except by modifying the fare rules. The fact that the AONE* products use the same bucket as discount first class fares is unfortunate.)

We agree that QR renames its premium cabin as "first class" on some regional middle east routes. QR also uses Foxtrot ("F") and Papa ("P") classes as a first class buckets on these (and other) routes. Fares that book into F or P are usually more expensive than fares that only permit booking into A.

The AONE* fares do not allow booking into F or P on QR. On QR, only A, D, L or Y may be used (in that order of preference).

If A on a middle east regional flight is full, and there is no D class, then you will be offered L or Y class instead.

Can Oneworld Explorer Fare start in Russia (Asia)?
 

I am trying to purchase an LONE3 or LONE4 starting in VVO with an internal S7 flight.
However, a UK travel agent I have previously used to book Oneworld Explorer fares before says
"The Oneworld Explorer fare is offered from Asia, but not every city or country. In this case, Russia doesn’t offer one."

However, I can get a quote for a fare on Expertflyer VVO-VVO.

Does anyone have any comments or suggestions?

Thanks

Find a better travel agent!

Any suggestions? I have been using a UK travel agent which does a lot of RTW bookings.
PM me if you wish.

Actually, user Leo123 recently reported here a very good experience booking direct with S7 - this post contains the contact details.

Have you tried using the online booking tool?

If your proposed itinerary has BA or AA segments, then you should be able to phone the airline to purchase the ticket

Can Oneworld Explorer end with an overland segment?
 

Thanks for your helpful suggestions.
A related question for planning this trip:
Can Oneworld Explorer end with an overland segment from where I really intend to finish to where I started?
If so, are there any rules about it (e.g. overland segment must be in the same continent)?
Thanks

As long as your Origin-Destination surface complies with this rule, then yes it is allowed:Note also that this segment does NOT count as one of the maximum 16 segments allowed.

That's total nonsense.

+1

Technically, you cannot end (or start) an air ticket with a surface sector; it's not something that makes any sense. But the fare rules in this case allow the final city to be different from the start city.

NB, I am pretty sure this used to allow BETWEEN UNITED STATES/CANADA explicitly?

EDIT: looking at the historical rules last November, they allowed
EDIT 2: Please regard the rules A-G as the current rules in effect.

Where do you look up the fare rules Calchas?

The pdf document on the oneworld.com web site has exceptions (a) to (g); as do the fare rules listed in ExpertFlyer.

I searched for CAI-CAI BA AONE6 on ExpertFlyer. The first was ticketing today and the second was ticketing 01 NOV 2016. In both cases ticketing at LON.

Maybe they now vary those rules a little by origin city. But then why include the India/Sri Lanka exception?

Thanks for explaining Calchas

However, I tried reproducing your result - and couldn't:confused:
I would be very, very surprised if the fare rules differed based on origin city, or on any other criterion. I understand Oneworld is working on automating updates to the fare rules for all airlines in the alliance, which to me implies only one version for all.