Updated *A RTW Spreadsheet (Updated 1 Jan 2011)

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Jul 18, 2009, 8:23 pm

#61

Jasper2009

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Please correct me if I´m mistaken, but I entered a simple routing (<29000 miles) ex KEF into the new RTW tool, and was told that the fare in C was 989000 ISK + taxes (which is also the price shown in the document linked in this post). 989000 ISK should be equivalent to 3119 € (as of July, 19).

Jul 19, 2009, 12:32 am

#62

Nil Desperandum

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jasper2009

If I read the chart correctly a CRTW1 would cost 990000 ISK (3120 €), is this price still true, that would be 40% less than a ticket issued in Germany/France etc.?

Also, do I have to live in Iceland, or is it sufficient to start my RTW there?

Thank´s in advance!

It used to be a pain to start in other than your home country - I had to get my Japanese office to ring up and get the ticket for me, but now it's no problem ... it just get's priced in local currency then converted to your home currency.

Typically I go RTW once a year and doing so from Japan has saved a good deal of cash. The only real downside for me is that the final leg is a year later ... but I've managed to extend that by a few days so it's not been a problem.

Recently I needed to go to Asia, so I just re-routed the final leg changing from LHR-NRT to LHR-ICN-TPE-NRT which cost under £100 - magic. Of course I then needed a new RTW ....

Good news again. I thought I'd get caught out by the £:Yen ... but the price in Yen had dropped quite a bit - so it wasn't so bad! This ticket is coming around the world in the other direction (which isn't as good for me) but I'll survive!

I suspect Iceland is good value due to currency issues ... a good one to take advantage of I'd have thought. Good luck.

Jul 19, 2009, 2:59 am

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Originally Posted by Jasper2009

Where do you get your conversion rate from? XE.com shows 5500 Euro for 989000 ISK...

Jul 19, 2009, 7:14 am

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Originally Posted by zara

Where do you get your conversion rate from? XE.com shows 5500 Euro for 989000 ISK...

Calculated the price using the Yahoo currency converter, both the US and German website show 989000 ISK = 3119 € (1 ISK = 0.0032 EUR). Other websites I now checked also show 5500 - 5600 €, so I guess Yahoo has some sort og bug. Sorry

Jul 19, 2009, 9:17 am

#65

jarino

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For exotic currencies I'd check the website of the central bank:

http://www.sedlabanki.is/?pageid=194

Jul 28, 2010, 2:07 am

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Sorry to bring this up again - but is there a new version? Or an easier way to find the best places other than going to the staralliance website and checking country by country?

Jul 28, 2010, 11:30 pm

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Yeah, I'd really love to see an updated version of this spreadsheet as well. It's a very useful tool.

Aug 3, 2010, 2:12 am

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Originally Posted by Sea-Wolf

Yeah, I'd really love to see an updated version of this spreadsheet as well. It's a very useful tool.

+ 1 !!

Aug 3, 2010, 3:53 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Sea-Wolf

Yeah, I'd really love to see an updated version of this spreadsheet as well. It's a very useful tool.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sunseeker

+ 1 !!

+3 !!

Aug 4, 2010, 2:29 am

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In the meantime, does anyone know if it's possible to get a list of the fares (even if you have to select each country, one-by-one) off Star Alliance's website? I know it used to be possible, but I can't seem to find any way to get a price other than working up a whole itinerary in Book-and-Fly. I was pretty sure that at one time you could select a country from a drop down and get the price for starting from there.

Aug 4, 2010, 2:40 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Sea-Wolf

I was pretty sure that at one time you could select a country from a drop down and get the price for starting from there.

Maybe you're thinking of OW?

cheers,

Henry

Aug 4, 2010, 3:06 am

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Originally Posted by henry999

Maybe you're thinking of OW?

You could be right. Well, I guess the next question is, does anyone know of a list of the prices that I could use as a basis to build a spreadsheet perhaps?

Aug 4, 2010, 3:26 am

#73

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I never did see a complete country overview on any public webpage.
And on most airline pages the pricing info is hard to find (or sometimes outdated).

This is what I got for starting in Europe (in EUR from 2010/07/01):

STAR 1 - max. permitted miles: 29,000 2,619 / 6,012 / 11,231
STAR 2 - max. permitted miles: 34,000 3,182 / 6,959 / 12,610
STAR 3 - max. permitted miles: 39,000 3,713 / 8,202 / 14,887
STAR SPECIAL - max. permitted miles: 26,000 2,239

Dec 28, 2010, 6:10 am

#74

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is there?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unterwegs

Sorry to bring this up again - but is there a new version? Or an easier way to find the best places other than going to the staralliance website and checking country by country?

still a valid question...