fast_random

Booked CDG-SFO (in May), and HNL-AKL-SIN-BKK-(VIE)-CDG in December on Expedia. Just in time for Christmas in Europe. Ended up priced at €3620, probably due to the proximity to the holidays. I'm not familiar with typical pricing on this kind of route, but it still strikes me as a decent deal. If anyone with more experience disagrees, please let me know within the 24h free cancellation window

Kmxu

Why do not post the google flight link here? If your dates are flexible, you can move the dates, you may get a lower fare. For example, the price for this trip can be as low as $2928.
https://www.google.co.uk/travel/flig...U0UhIGCAEQABgA

fabge

Are stopovers allowed?

yogibearla

Do we know what ticket stock this books too? If it's non-016 (UA) might be a pqp earning opportunity.

canadavid

Yes, once per continent (in North America, NZ and Asia)

jbalmuth

Don't forget that one permitted routing is via South America (and permits a stopover in RIO, SAO or BUE). Also a stop would be permitted in RAR or PPT or HNL (in lieu of North America). Finally, stopovers in Europe (i.e. ZRH, VIE, MUC, GVA, FRA, DUS, CGN, BRU) appear to be allowed in lieu of other enroute stops between France and Auckland.

honzeek_cz

I tried hard to come up with routing via PPT without increasing the price (had one at about EUR 3500), but no luck.

Tofino87

Would be very interested to see some of those examples incorporating RAR/PPT.

How about GUM, TKK, YAP, PPG, NAN ?

jbalmuth

The routing rules for this fare are listed in posting #21 above.

Tofino87

Ah yes, my bad

fast_random

Apologies, I should've expressed myself better. I'm happy with the price I got given that my dates aren't flexible, and this gets me where I want to be. Out of curiosity I tried pricing this as a RTW ticket and ended up at 7k with pretty much the same flights, so got some decent savings. I guess what I was trying to get at is that I'm a bit surprised that this fare isn't getting more attention here, which made me think that maybe historically a deal like this for what's essentially a RTW ticket comes along more often than I originally thought. Or maybe people are simply hesitant to book this because of unclear future covid/travel restrictions (particularly in NZ). If it's the former and there's a reasonable chance the same ticket can be booked at a similar price in say August, then waiting would make more sense, given changes in travel restrictions.

Mine ended up 220 / LH. For the itinerary described above (with the CDG-SFO segment operated by UA) united.com is predicting 5288 PQP total.

Kmxu

There are still travel restrictions even though that you are allowed to enter some countries. I am interested in spending a few days in BKK or SIN, in addition to AKL, but I have a hard time to pull the trigger.

moyafmx

I pulled the trigger and my booking went through:
https://www.google.com/travel/flight...7S4x8JNy6zfAq8

My routing isn't as interesting as others mentioned here. I particularly tried to book SYD instead of AKL, and a stopover SIN-BKK-CDG but introducing either of those options led to either to price changing drastically on Google Flights when selecting flights, or in checkout errors when trying to book on United.

If you can improve on my routing for January feel free to post a link, I have flexibility on my dates

3544quebec

Looks like you can open jaw AKL/SYD

Trip from Paris | Google Flights

Maux

The version Momondo.it of the first websites gives the possibility to book with Expedia