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Jan 6, 2006 | 5:28 am

xlrsdog

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Circle Pacific Fare Help

I am trying to book a Circle Pacific Fare. This is supposed to be a business class pass. Here is the routes I have so far:

SFO TPE Booking Class D
TPE HKG Class D
HKG SIN Class D
SIN PER Class D
other transport to SYD
SYD CHC Class Y
CHC AKL Class Y
AKL SYD HNL Class D to SYD, Y to HNL

HNL SFO Class Y

Is it normal to have so many Y class booking codes? This shows about 25,700 miles using the *A RTW calculator with 2040 added for the distance from PER to SYD.

I don't mind the short coach legs, but the SYD HNL leg is a long flight. Any other ideas on how to get to HNL?

Jan 6, 2006 | 4:25 pm

Al B

Join Date: Oct 1999

Location: Sydney NSW Australia

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Presume your HNL-SFO segment is on UA, so you are permitted to book A class to get UA's domestic First cabin if D/Business is not an offered class on the flight.
Also presume your SYD-HNL segment is on AC. Get your agent to waitlist in C class and let AC's yield management release the seat if they can. If they don't know you're waitlisted, they can't very well release a seat!
The use of "Y" as a booking code is a worry, unless you've made it a Y to show you are in the Economy cabin. Ensure your agent has the NZ/UA segments in M class, and the AC one in H.
Cheers.

Jan 6, 2006 | 6:38 pm

xlrsdog

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I ended up changing the AKL-SYD-HNL flight to NZ10 that goes from AKL direct to HNL on Saturday. The rest of the segments I listed were showing a booking class of Y on my itinerary. When my travel agent submitted the ticket to UA, they changed the NZ flights to class M, and the HNL-SFO UA flight to A. This was the first time booking this type of fare for me and the travel agent.

The price of the point to point tickets was about $10,400, the Circle the Pacific fare came in at just over $5k.

I booked the tickets today and start the trip next Saturday.

Thanks for the help again.

Jan 7, 2006 | 1:54 am

henry999

Join Date: Jan 2005

Location: Tampere

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Quote:

Originally Posted by xlrsdog

This was the first time booking this type of fare for me...

OK, fair enough. Everybody starts somewhere.

Quote:

Originally Posted by xlrsdog

...and the travel agent.

DANGER! DANGER! Why should _your_ trip be the TA's 'learning curve'? Oftentimes it is imperative to know _more_ than the TA does in order to make sure that things get done properly, so if this is a 'first' for you I would be extremely leery about entrusting it to an agent who isn't competent and confident.

cheers,

Henry

Jan 7, 2006 | 6:10 am

xlrsdog

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I agree 100%. This is for company travel, so I used the company travel agent. I did a lot of research and asked a lot of questions. Al B, the TA and older FT threads gave a lot of answers. ANA has some good info on the *A airpasses on thier web site here. The ANA web site shows all the airpass prices - which is what got my attention. There is also some great info on the airpass rules on FT (also posted by Al B) here.

The bottom line for this booking is that I learned the rules (so did the TA), selected most of the flights and she booked them.