Changes to OW fares today
 

This has just been posted at the end of a very long thread and deserves it's own one.

Changes have been made to the Oneworld Explorer fares:

Oneworld Explorer Fare Levels (AONE*/DONE*/LONE*)

* Effective 15 May 2007, introduction of fare levels ex Slovenia
* Effective 01 June 2007, increase of fare levels ex Australia, introduction of fare levels ex Sudan, changes to fare levels ex Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Israel.

Oneworld Explorer Fare (AONE*/DONE*/LONE*)

* Effective 15 May 2007, additional information relating to sectors within Europe and Middle East and the introduction of fare levels ex Slovenia
* Effective 01 June 2007, increase of fare levels ex Australia, introduction of fare levels ex Sudan, changes to fare levels ex Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Israel.

Any info in relation to this?

Specifically the Ultimate...pricing sticky, for anyone who wants to follow any possible add-on postings there.

Nice in theory, but until today's post there was no activity whatsoever on the "Ultimate" sticky over the last two months. A change in OW fares needs to be highlighted, not lost on page 10 of a long, rambling sticky.

It'd be nice if those in the know would try and fish out updated starfiles.

And there weren't any changes in fares for the last two months of which I am aware.

Don't get me wrong - I think you did exactly the right thing and I appreciate it. But otoh if someone happens to post additional information to the original thread, I'd like to know where to look for it - I almost never look at the old stickies otherwise.

I am not able to see any OW RTW fares ex-LJU on Amadeus. My Sabre connection is GUIed up at the moment, so maybe they're there...?

Here is a comparison with WearyBizTraveler's spreadsheet data and the new ex Oz prices:Biggest % change appears to be in the LxONE's of around 3 to 6%. The DONEx's & AONEx's have all increased by just under 1%.

Can't see any change in the EF rules, although I could see the updated pricing for exOZ.

Can someone who has access to the new Starfile advise how the Europe/ME bit has changed?

Thanks. :)

This looks somwhat different:

Ahh 'Within Middle East.'
To reflect RJ's participation in the product I suppose.

"Within Middle East" has been there for years (at least since 2003).

The only change I see there from the old star files is the addition of the word "segment" in the intro language, otherwise everything is the same.

From the 11/2006 starfile:
New:

So we need a full update basically. I'll start now and finish tomorrow.

OK I guess I've always been bad at playing spot the difference...:o :(

Thankfully nothing to bang heads over, as far as I can see, unless one is doing ex-OZ.

I wonder if the inclusion of the word "segment" in the orign/destination exception means that that final surface segment will count as one of the 20 segments. Right now surface segments don't count toward the 20, but I can't think of another reason that they would add it.

Don't think it'd count towards the limit. I think there's a sufficient distinction between the 2 kinds of segments. The final segment in the origin-destination exception is described as 'surface segment' while we're allowed 20 'flight segment (sic) including free/purchased flight segments.'

The bold section looks new to me. They've cleared up the fact that you cannot purchase additional long intra-europe segments from the UK, if you already have 2 of them free: