I am looking at booking a Y ticket 12Apr BNE-SFO 18Apr SFO-LAS 21 Apr LAS-LAX 24APR LAX-BNE for a friend who is QF Bronze Qantas Club member and UA nothing. Cheapest option seems to be NZ transpac plus UA domestic USA, apparently easily enough booked on NZ and UA web sites. Very little FF miles that way since these NZ fares give no UA miles.
A bit more expensive but perhaps better value given Q club membership and FF miles is QF transpac plus AA.
My primary question is how best to book such a ticket. I did not get it price on the QF website (?user inexperience)? I seemed to get it to price various ways on AA, with some acceptable fares.
NZ+UA totaled a little less than AUD2000; AA website a bit less than USD2000 when I looked. (There seem to be different AA sites which price it differently.) Any easy ways of determining when the relevant cheapie fares expire? Does it make sense to break the AA fare into separate transpac + domestic fares?
I was very disappointed in what itasoft suggested as cheapest fares.
A bit more expensive but perhaps better value given Q club membership and FF miles is QF transpac plus AA.
My primary question is how best to book such a ticket. I did not get it price on the QF website (?user inexperience)? I seemed to get it to price various ways on AA, with some acceptable fares.
NZ+UA totaled a little less than AUD2000; AA website a bit less than USD2000 when I looked. (There seem to be different AA sites which price it differently.) Any easy ways of determining when the relevant cheapie fares expire? Does it make sense to break the AA fare into separate transpac + domestic fares?
I was very disappointed in what itasoft suggested as cheapest fares.
