booking a *ONE* or *CIR* from MNL or HKG

[DTM1]

I have been looking at pricing out of MNL and/or HKG for a DCIR26 fare, and the base fares are considerably cheaper than other oprtions. At approx $4,500 AUD, much cheaper than ex-NRT and that's without even thinking about an ex-AUS fare of around $11k.

Has anyone booked a trip commencing from these places ? If so, I assume it needs to be through a travel agent. Any other reasons not to or why it can't be done from there ?

 

[Evan]

No reason, i have only looked at xONEx fares but you could maybe also consider...
Indonesia (CGK), Korea (ICN), Vietnam (SGN etc) as cheap starting points.
For DONE4's if what has been reported this week is correct the price will even DROP from MNL at 10th July !!!

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[DTM1]

only adv with MNL and HKG is ease of getting to, and ease of starting/finishing trips from there.

 

[Alanslegal]

Yep I ticketed a DCIR22 ex-MNL with AAmnl last Friday (thanks to QF009's help)

AAmnl is good to deal with, very efficient group of people there!

Total fare of USD$4160.

Highlight booking is the QF A380 to SYD-LAX (although in early 2009).

 

[DTM1]

I assume you booked and priced through AA round the world desk in the US. Do you have the number you called for the AA office in MNL ?

Were you able to pay by credit card over the phone ?

I assume it was ticketed as an e-tkt ?

 

[Evan]

I would also assume he may have used the AA around the world desk or some other similar means, even just a travel agent who can queue the fare to be priced.

Not sure about MNL (But i thinnk QF009 has put details in one of his posts, stuffed if i could find it now) but you usually just give the agent the refernce number and they tell you how to pay. And thats it for a ticket like that, they send yo the e-Ticket details and your done.

Once you have done it a few times its amazing how easy it is, i think my AONE5 via JNB took no more than 1hr to organise in both AA and agent time.

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[DTM1]

I just prefer not to deal with a retail agent if possible, b/c you never know who you're going to get - would prefer to deal with local AA if possible (did that recently for an ex-NRT DCIR22).