The Higher price rule means that you pay the higher of the price of where you ticket and where you originate. (Excluding the Canada Exception.)

SO - no. You'll need to start in NZ to get the cheaper price.

Yes, a ticket issued in NZ must start in NZ. If you really want to start from a cheap place, try South Africa where you will save quite a bit of money.

yeah thats what i was thinking as it about 2000 dollars after tax cheaper from new zealand, south america that seems a little extreme as I would have to pay to get to south america and I plan to go there on my done4 anyway but thankyou for the suggestion

Kiwifyer or someone has made the comment that AA have closed their NZ office. (from memory it was a desk in the QF sales office). So not sure how you (we) can buy an AA issued DONE in NZ now.

Same way you can get it done anywhere - get RTW desk to set it up then call AA's NZ number. Or work through a TA if you want (though normally you have to ask for it to be ticketed with AA as they default to QF).

Hi everyone have a booking with qantas for my done 4 ex new zealand the taxes are ridiculus around $2100, but anyway what do you expect. My other question is before I pay has anyone every gotten D class availability NRT-GRU, I have booked a date for April 09, but I am waitlisted for two seats, and it seems to me that JAL dont release D class or A class on this route on purpose it would seem. So should I change my flight route so that I avoid this leg and go another way or else take a chance?

regards

Although my routing eventually changed so much that it mooted this question, during an earlier iteration of my itinerary, I decided not to risk it (since if I couldn't get availability, I would have had either to travel in L or to split it into two segments, which would have pushed me over the 21-segment limit). But, then again, I don't have any status and am risk averse.

You may save several hundred dollars by booking though AA if you can. There are threads on this here.

Also, how many flights do you have ex UK where it is not a transfer from a flight inbound to the UK? It's £80 each time.

Hi serfty I have considered booking through AA, however I need the ex new zealand price, how would I book this assume I ring the new zealand number however it is a freecall number I think, but I could try the australian number I guess and route the first flight on AA codeshare etc, I might give that ago this afternoon, yes I do have few flights ex lhr as the plan is to work over there for a couple of years and do some side tripping home for christmas sort of thing.

thankyou for the response, if only japan airlines would release D class, I might have to change the route, as I dont want to pay for something I probably would not get

regards

I believe AA ticketing for NZ is handled by their office in SYD. I think they might just put on an NZ "hat" if you rang up on the NZ freecall number, and be able to issue the ticket at the NZ price.

Cabbage85, are you sure that you have reserved a DONE4? Maybe the high "taxes" are because you are actually one a DONE5.

New Zealand: SWP
Japan: Asia
Flight NRT-GRU: Stops at JFK. If you have a stopover there it would add North America and South America. This is also your Pacific crossing.
Now you need an Atlantic crossing which will go to Europe.

Europe then is the 5th continent.

If you post your itinerary we'll have an easier time discussing "taxes" (which could also be fuel fines) as well as number of continents.

I've merged a few threads together to help make it easier to answer the OP's questions.

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Hi everyone, I have finally taken the plunge and am starting my trip in indonesia, so I am using points to get up to denpasar and then from there I am doing the following

dps-nrt-del-hkg-akl-mel-per-ayq-syd-eze-gru-lim-scl-rio-lhr-dxb-lhr-ist-lhr-dps, (Via, HKG)

also I am doing the rio-lhr-dxb-lhr-ist lhr with out stop over so i reduce the number from 3 to 1 and save some money. I guess the one way i wish I had modified the route was instead of akl-mel-per-ayq-syd, I should have done akl-bne-drw-per-syd, earn more points status credits. More interesting is that qantas told me that cathay hkg-akl has first class and the flights I am booked on will be a 747-400 with the new layout at this stage, i thought it wa only a two class service, als syd-eze is three class service which i thought was once again odd, as i would nto expect lots of first class demand to eze, but I am only really speculating.

also i gave up on nrt-gru as there was no d class avialability from dec 08 to april 09 so I figured that it would never exist and changed my route accordingly, which worked out fine.

regards