RTW: Backtracking Question
May 29, 2007 | 1:07 am
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RTW: Backtracking Question
greetings all,
on the qf/ly/fj rtw, would the following be considered backtracking:
according to great circle, the answer is maybe yes? any idea to what qf would say?
many thanks,
bhd87
on the qf/ly/fj rtw, would the following be considered backtracking:
NAN-CXI-HNL-LAX
many thanks,
bhd87
. Although I don't see how this shouldn't be in the QF forum....
May 29, 2007 | 2:25 am
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greetings all,
on the qf/ly/fj rtw, would the following be considered backtracking:
according to great circle, the answer is maybe yes? any idea to what qf would say?
many thanks,
bhd87
on the qf/ly/fj rtw, would the following be considered backtracking:
according to great circle, the answer is maybe yes? any idea to what qf would say?
many thanks,
bhd87
May 29, 2007 | 2:32 am
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That really depends on the specific ticket - many tickets do indeed restrict you to travel only east or west. Your comment referred (I think) to OneWorld Explorers, but that is not the type of ticket which the OP is referring to.
As far as I can se, if the ticket rules say strictly East or West and no backtracking then your proposed route would breach those rules. Whether there is any leeway applied in practice I'm afraid I really don't know.
As far as I can se, if the ticket rules say strictly East or West and no backtracking then your proposed route would breach those rules. Whether there is any leeway applied in practice I'm afraid I really don't know.
May 29, 2007 | 3:54 am
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It's not OW but a mod (for reasons best known to themselves and that we are not allowed to question) decided that this should be moved from the QF forum to the OneWorld one, despite the fact that 2 of the 3 airlines involved are nothing to do with Oneworld.
May 29, 2007 | 10:04 am
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Really not a OW question, but not certain where it should go, forum-wise.
May 29, 2007 | 11:45 am
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I would think the proper place for this thread would be the QF forum(or the LY/FJ fora). Airline specific rtw products have traditionally been dealt with in their respective airline forums. See, e.g., the CX/UA rtw product discussed in the CX forum and the EK/UA rtw product discussed in the EK (and UA) forum. The rules for these airline specific rtw products are often quite dissimilar to any of the explorer products offered by OW.
May 29, 2007 | 4:33 pm
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May 29, 2007 | 4:39 pm
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Based on my recent ticketin experience with QF (admittedly on a DONE4) anything that isnt continuous onward travel is BAD - they recently refused to ticket a perfrectly valid DONE4 (that was ticketed by CX) becuase I was "just using it to get cheap domestic business class flights"
So my expectation of QF booking anything on the margin would be low...
So my expectation of QF booking anything on the margin would be low...
May 29, 2007 | 4:43 pm
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Based on my recent ticketin experience with QF (admittedly on a DONE4) anything that isnt continuous onward travel is BAD - they recently refused to ticket a perfrectly valid DONE4 (that was ticketed by CX) becuase I was "just using it to get cheap domestic business class flights"
So my expectation of QF booking anything on the margin would be low...
So my expectation of QF booking anything on the margin would be low...
. As far as the QF/EL/FJ RTW, there is no mileage/stopover limit. I would, at minimum, look into 8 or 9 domestic flights.