Qantas Gold for A$3800 DOH-CMB-MLE-CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY-SYD-SIN-CMB-DOH
May 17, 2017, 11:14 pm
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Qantas Gold for A$3800 DOH-CMB-MLE-CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY-SYD-SIN-CMB-DOH
May be a good deal.
I just booked DOH-CMB-MLE-CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY-SYD-SIN-CMB-DOH for my wife and daughter ($3800 for the wife, $$3125 for the daughter) in J (I class).
UL DOH-CMB-MLE legs, QF CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY legs (EK code share CMB-SIN legs). The QF legs were $2400 adult and $1650 child - all AUD.
720 SC, 6~, 31000 points each.
We all have two weeks in the Maldives before they head back to Oz to escape the Doha summer heat for four weeks.
Now a question to which a search has not revealed an answer.
As part of the above, they have a 26 hour transit in SIN, they will head into the city and stay the night in a hotel but does anyone know if they will have to collect and recheck luggage?
I just booked DOH-CMB-MLE-CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY-SYD-SIN-CMB-DOH for my wife and daughter ($3800 for the wife, $$3125 for the daughter) in J (I class).
UL DOH-CMB-MLE legs, QF CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY legs (EK code share CMB-SIN legs). The QF legs were $2400 adult and $1650 child - all AUD.
720 SC, 6~, 31000 points each.
We all have two weeks in the Maldives before they head back to Oz to escape the Doha summer heat for four weeks.
Now a question to which a search has not revealed an answer.
As part of the above, they have a 26 hour transit in SIN, they will head into the city and stay the night in a hotel but does anyone know if they will have to collect and recheck luggage?
Last edited by VH-RMD; May 19, 2017 at 7:00 am
May 18, 2017, 4:09 am
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That will be (IMHO) treated as stop over (forced?), so I think they will have to collect... If that was the only possible connection, then I would try to get STPC for that too.
May 18, 2017, 4:02 pm
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I would still try asking QF (or whoever is ticket issued on) for STPC. Asking does not cost you anything, worst case scenario they say no...
May 19, 2017, 5:11 am
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May 19, 2017, 3:13 pm
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May be a good deal.
I just booked DOH-CMB-MLE-CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY-SYD-SIN-CMB-DOH for my wife and daughter ($3800 for the wife, $$3125 for the daughter) in J (I class).
UL DOH-CMB-MLE legs, QF CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY legs (EK code share CMB-SIN legs). The QF legs were $2400 adult and $1650 child - all AUD.
I just booked DOH-CMB-MLE-CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY-SYD-SIN-CMB-DOH for my wife and daughter ($3800 for the wife, $$3125 for the daughter) in J (I class).
UL DOH-CMB-MLE legs, QF CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY legs (EK code share CMB-SIN legs). The QF legs were $2400 adult and $1650 child - all AUD.
How did you search / book this? i'm assuming not each stop is a destination?
May 20, 2017, 12:05 am
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MLE is a stop; CMB is a stop for nesting; SIN is a stop for a 26 hour transit; MCY is a stop.
It worked through MEL also but when adding other finals where there was no I class it sent the fare through the roof.
I then had my trusty AMEX Platinum travel service find I class availability and book it for me.
May 23, 2017, 6:15 am
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Found it on ITA Matrix, two nested fares; one DOH-CMB-MLE-CMB-DOH (UL); the other CMB-SIN-SYD-MCY-SYD-SIN-CMB (QF).
MLE is a stop; CMB is a stop for nesting; SIN is a stop for a 26 hour transit; MCY is a stop.
It worked through MEL also but when adding other finals where there was no I class it sent the fare through the roof.
I then had my trusty AMEX Platinum travel service find I class availability and book it for me.
MLE is a stop; CMB is a stop for nesting; SIN is a stop for a 26 hour transit; MCY is a stop.
It worked through MEL also but when adding other finals where there was no I class it sent the fare through the roof.
I then had my trusty AMEX Platinum travel service find I class availability and book it for me.
i have few Amex cards incl plat, never bothered with their service ...
May 24, 2017, 1:38 am
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The UK travel team are better than the Australian and US IMO, it's a matter of timing the call to go to the right team.