I have planned a RTW departing in November (assuming I can get a booking - my 1st segment is showing M1, my 2nd segment is showing 0 all through economy). The routing is MEL-SIN-JNB-FRA-CDG-LHR-JFK-IAD-SFO-SYD-MEL, with stops required in JNB, CDG, JFK & IAD.

Great Circle comes up with 28953 miles. I think my TA books with Amadeus and tickets with SQ. Should I be concerned about going over 29k miles? How would I find out IATA distances?

thanks
goodo

[This message has been edited by goodo (edited 09-28-2003).]

in my experience (as long as I don't include many back-/forward segments in the USA), it doesn't differ much in the total. When Amadeus charges city-to-city miles (example: all New York city airports EWR, LGA, JFK show the same mileage distance) and other systems don't (they show individual airport distances), on a rtw trip going mainly in just one direction, it equalizes out (more or less. I never noticed dierrencies of more that 40 miles in the totals).

Thanks Rudi. Amadeus is calculating it as 29003 miles. Is there any chance of a 3 mile leeway or will I have to tweak it?

goodo

Get the agent to ticket on 016 and get the mileage off UA's system. The 3 miles you need is found right there in New York. UA will calculate your mileage to JFK and not NYC. And the only reason I suggest this is I had the *exact* (as in 3 miles over) situation once and while 1 carrier would waive it, the other 2 or 3 wouldn't. (If SQ is in your itinerary, forget any thought of a waiver.) Using the individual airports in NYC was the only way we got under the 29,000.

Alternately, if your agent insists on ticketing on 220, get him/her to run the itinerary past the SQ agents to see what the total mileage is in their system. If it's under, then your agent will be okay to ticket as they won't get "billed" later by SQ.
Cheers.



[This message has been edited by Al B (edited 10-02-2003).]

I'd rather not use UA ticket stock at this moment in time. I think I'll just change it to IAD-ORD-SYD.

goodo

Doesn't matter what system your agent uses. SQ is issuing the ticket as its the first outbound sector. (TAs must abide the rules to ticket with first outbound carrier. Airlines can do whatever they want).