My only BA segment is CPT-JNB

but it does mean that BA would do the ticketing, rather than AA if I use its RTW desk, or QR if I contact them directly to ticket

But BA doing the ticketing means you they will collect fuel fines just about anywhere correct?

I did substitute QR (JNB-DOH-MAD) with BA (JNB-LHR-MAD) and the total fuel fine difference was only about 416ZAR or ~$37, of course there are higher airport taxes as well, but it comes as a surprise to me.

If I am not mistaken, because I am only doing a connection in LHR on the way to MAD, I should be able to use AA flight numbers is that correct? I wonder if I can do that to try and realize a YQ reduction.

I hope the RTW can provide a better fuel fine break down and also will see whether the switch of first flights can massage those fines some more.

My thread on the Lan Chile forum may not be noticed by the regulars on this forum, but any help with this Lan Chile problem would be much appreciated:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/lan-l...s-infants.html

I may delete South America and Lan Chile from my itinerary and do something else.

Could somebody with Expert Flyer or similar access please give me the base fare price of a DONE4, DONE5 and DONE6 ex-Johannesburg?

cheers.

done4: Zar 58,940
done5: Zar 67,880
done6: Zar 80,500

I have a recent pricing of a DONE4 ex-JNB at 59,010ZAR.

59,010 - 58,940 = 70 ZAR
which is roughly 7 USD

I'm thinking your itinerary includes HKG?
which has a nuisance tax, but which for some reason the authorities there state must be added to the base fare, rather than be separately identified as a tax

New Itin, any comments?
 

Thanks.

The ban on infants on the lap in Lan Chile business class was a show-stopper for my old itinerary involving flying to South America and to/from Easter Island on Lan.

I wasn't prepared to buy a seat for my son when all other airlines are OK with him on the lap and I wasn't prepared to downgrade my Lan Chile legs to economy when I'm paying for business class either.

I've reworked the itinerary departing from JNB instead of Cairo as per the original plan and deleted all the Lan Chile flights except for SCL-GIG which I don't think I can avoid.

JNB(QF) - SYD(QF) - MEL(QF) - SYD(JL) - NRT(UL) - CMB(UL) - KUL(MH) - RGN(KA) - HKG(CX) - LAX - JFK(AA) - CUN(AA) - MIA(AA) - SCL(LA) - GIG(BA) - LHR(BA) - EBB < 16 segments total

The only thing is from JNB I must go to Melbourne before Sydney (family reasons and no direct JNB-MEL flight) therefore I'm "wasting" 2 x sectors in short hops from SYD-MEL-SYD.

Can anybody see a way in this itinerary to do any one of the following, maybe by deleting the inefficient SYD-MEL-SYD legs and me just buying a separate ticket for those:
- Get from Cape Town to/from JNB?
- Add another destination in South or Central America (but not EZE or LIM; already been there on previous trips)?
- Going to Port Moresby (POM)?

Thanks again for your help (and also to gardyloo who has also helped out a lot). For this part of the trip JNB and SYD are transits, but I will be making a long stop in SYD after MEL. I want to do Australia before Asia so that I will have summer in Australia (I arrive in Aus in January; doing Asia first I'd arrive in Aus in March or April).

Is there a direct CPT-DOH flight? I have the OneWorld electronic timetable and CPT-DOH is showing a transit in JNB (ie CPT-JNB would be a segment). The thought of flying Cathay JNB-HKG-MEL had crossed my mind, just because it is a 25 hour flight so I would really think I'm getting good value out of a DONE5 ticket, rather than just flying Qantas JNB-SYD-MEL in 15 hours ;) Or maybe that is crazy ;)

For those who might care, I changed my above itinerary to replace the AA codeshares on IB and CX for MAD-LHR and JFK-HKG, respectively, and it shaved off about 1,641ZAR or $164 in fuel fines. New total is 10,149ZAR approx $1,015.

QR in general and AA TATL fuel fines are not pretty. However, I still think I am being overcharged, I have gone and tried to manually price the fuel fines in an unscientific manner, although the CX fines are correct because those are clearly published and they have been slightly reduced as of Oct 1.

Route Airline YQ
JNB-DOH QR $80.50
DOH-MAD QR $80.50
MAD-xLHR IB $40.88
xLHR-LAX AA $288 (RT is 576)
LAX-JFK AA $0
JFK-HKG CX $103.70
HKG-NRT CX $23.50
NRT-HKG CX $23.50
HKG-JNB CX $103.70

Total $744 (8,109ZAR)

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I've started a trial of Expert Flyer.... can't figure out how to look up fuel surcharges though.

For my RTW biz class trip. Seat availability is showing as zero in all classes and all fare brackets for the Qatar CPT-DOH flight. Any idea what is going on?

I had a problem when I was playing with the One World RTW booking tool getting any Qatar flights to come up also.

Edit - I also notice the poster above says QR fuel surcharges are high? It only makes economic sense for me to fly Qatar CPT-DOH-MEL if the fuel surcharges are about the same or less than Qantas JNB-SYD.

What date?