Always Flyin

I'm getting this for an ex-Saigon ticket (that it states is a valid itinerary (and I know is)):

"The following error(s) occured: We are unable to confirm the fare for the flights you have selected. Please choose a different fare or flights and resubmit your request. (15012)"

That's helpful...

Connected1

Is this error message occurring as the system is trying to confirm a particular segment or does this happen after all segments have been confirmed and you are proceeding to the booking step (or, even worse, after you've entered payment details)? What is the full itinerary you are trying to book? Who is the marketing carrier on the first segment?

Always Flyin

After confirmation of the entire itinerary and entry of the traveller info, but before payment details are requested. Has been going on for five days now on two separate computers.

First segment is on CX.

Routing is: SGN-xHKG-oJFK-oLAX-xDFW-oIAD-oDFW-oLAX-oLHR-oNCE-oLHR-oCAI-xLHR-xHKG-oMNL-xHKG-oSGN

col747uk

Have priced up an AONE3 ex ICN using the above. The taxes that are quoted are they based on the ticket being ticketed with the airline providing the first sector ( in my case CX). Could I take the itinerary to AA and get an overall cheaper total cost because taxes would be cheaper? Only AA flights are N American domestic.

millionmiler

Typically AA will not ticket if at least one of the over ocean segments is not on AA metal.

Gardyloo

Very possible. Why not ask and see? Skype is your friend.

AFAIK AA is not uptight at present about AA trans-oceanic as a "requirement;" in a worst case you could look for an AA codeshare on JL or CX metal transpacific, which would seal the deal.

It wouldn't be cheaper taxes, it would be cheaper fuel surcharges.

Kiwi Flyer

booking tool minimum connection time (MCT) too long

lockedintheattic

My ticket has no AA trans-oceanic flights (just two flights within the Americas) and AA were happy to issue. And yes, saved a fortune in fuel surcharges vs BA's quote, who my first flight is with.

travelhound

Originally Posted by thetravelguy
Yes, but if you try to purchase this and pay with a card using a billing address other than the country of origin, the pricing in the country of origin will be compared to the price in the country of sale and the higher will apply


They are strict on this over the phone, but there are ways around this. Call the local country agent who will take a US card. I booked on line departing from South Africa using a US credit card. It went straight to Qantas South Africa and I paid Rands. Taxes seemed high... perhaps I could have done better had I read this thread first.

christep

It is simply not true that the billing address of the credit card is in any way relevant to the price you pay. The country of sale is the location of the agent making the sale. I do wish people would stop propagating this utter myth.

C-man

will this tool work using FF points?

christep

No - the tool is designed specifically for OneWorldExplorer revenue tickets.

KKT

It is very confusing but interesting in reading through all the threads.

I have a few questions :

1) I noticed in Star Alliance thread that RTW will go up massively from 1 Feb., is Oneworld RTW going up from 1 Feb as well?

2) I am based in Hong Kong. Previously I have purchased tickets on Cathay Taiwan website (TPE-HKG-TPE); Air New Zesland UK website (LHR -HKG-LHR) and have no problem in paying the fare starting in that country, I suppose it will be the same if I am buying CRTW starting from Seoul on-line.

3) If the fare is also going up on 1 Feb, I am trying to buy the ticket tomorrow on line (I am in Osaka at the moment). I will be starting my trip in Oct 2009 and travelling until Aug 2010. I am only certain with the date of the first 3 flights (in Oct) but with not the rest of itin. Also, I cannot book flight more than 12 months and not with a OPEN date. Can I make up the places and dates of the remaining itin and change it later? Am I correct that changing of dates do not require a fee and change of destinations require a fee?

Previously nearly all my RTW were on Star and less familiar with Oneworld.

Many thanks.

Dr. HFH

Not this conversation, again. Chris is completely correct.

tt7

There are a couple of current threads related to this topic - there currently does not appear to be any confirmation of fares going up but there is also an apparent "10% sale discount" starting on Feb 1 - so as someone has already pointed out, maybe the fares will go up 10% on Feb 1.

If you buy it online using the oneworld tool, then presumably there should be no issues in getting country-of-origin pricing.

$125 each time you change destinations. No fee for date/time changes. Best idea is to pick the places you currently think you want on the ticket (and specific dates and times, as you can't do an 'open' ticket online) and then change them later if you have to. It's $125 for each set of changes, not for each changed destination, so if you are going to make changes to the destinations, try to do them all at the same time.

I think the 12 month validity of the ticket runs from the date of the first flight and not from when the ticket is issued but perhaps others can confirm that (as I've never done a ticket that I wanted to go for more than 12 months out from when it was originally issued).