AZ TUN-JNB rtn business £994.00
Aug 31, 2019, 8:08 am
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AZ TUN-JNB rtn business £994.00
Not seen these fares for a while but AZ are just sub £1k for TUN-FCO-JNB rtn in business at the moment for selected dates. I was looking at 15 October outbound and return 4 November on Skyscanner - book through MyTrips OTA (there is a £988 fare with GotoGate but they get terrible reviews). As usual with AZ booking too far out you pays your money and takes your chances!
Aug 31, 2019, 7:01 pm
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After the CC bank pays the merchant in ~ 2 months, any extra leverage of the payment method disappears. The airline may theoretically owe the pax money for not providing the service, but there will be no intermediary to front that money to you.
Sep 1, 2019, 3:40 am
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My understanding of the system is that it is the CC company (Visa, Alex etc) who must reimburse the customer. The CC company may, in turn, recover the money from the merchant (Alitalia in this case). Hence paying by CC eleminates the risk of the customer being left out of pocket.
Sep 1, 2019, 3:13 pm
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This fare has been around for a while. The fare rules allow you to use Etihad to route via AUH. It might be worth playing around with flight numbers, when I looked at this back in January EY flights appeared to attract lower surcharges than AZ ones. FCO - AUH is on the Dreamliner, you can also route TUN - FCO - MXP - AUH - JNB, MXP - AUH is the A330.
The fare allows unlimited free stopovers.
The fare allows unlimited free stopovers.
Sep 1, 2019, 6:00 pm
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Sep 2, 2019, 2:49 am
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This fare has been around for a while. The fare rules allow you to use Etihad to route via AUH. It might be worth playing around with flight numbers, when I looked at this back in January EY flights appeared to attract lower surcharges than AZ ones. FCO - AUH is on the Dreamliner, you can also route TUN - FCO - MXP - AUH - JNB, MXP - AUH is the A330.
The fare allows unlimited free stopovers.
The fare allows unlimited free stopovers.
Sep 2, 2019, 9:43 am
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I was going to say, this is a better deal and costs less and doesn’t have the fiddle of starting in Tunisia. But I am struggling to find them under 500 Euros. If it comes up again next year, I will book it.
Sep 2, 2019, 1:29 pm
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