Circle Asia questions

[Hvr]

Ok am currently planning my personal travel for 2010 and am looking at a Circle Asia fare in J. Naturally prices increased yesterday, although this gives me a bit of breathing room in planning with the expectation they won’t rise in the next couple of months.
I have done a search and couldn't find answers to my questions.

Essentially I want to maximise SCs and to go back to Japan. Any and everywhere else is a bonus. I will be travelling for about 4-5 weeks over late Jan-Mar with the specific time requirement of being in Japan from 5-11 Feb for the snow and ice festival in Sapporo. Will separately book OneWorld Visit Japan fares for the NRT-CTS-NRT trip for only ¥10,000 each

Current price is AUD$5599 for >13,000miles plus of course taxes and fuel fines. What is the approximate value of these extras? I see that in the brochure it is USD$150 for each stopover over the free limit of four.



Also, is it possible to book in NZ$ noting that the price is 5,999.00 NZD = 4,856.68 AUD.



Some itineraries I have looked at (Monkey Mileage) include: SYD-NRT-INC-TPE-HKG-PER-SYD 12872 miles for 540 SCs and,



SYD-NRT-PEK-PVG-HKG-MNL-BNE-SYD 12711 miles for 560SCs.



So any traps for new players? Things to be aware of? Finally I want them to all credit to Qantas but am not worried about only having 2 trips on QF metal on this journey. Will pick up the other 2 trips during Christmas travel etc.

 

[moa999]

Note prices dind't increase yesterday, they returned to previously levels after a 100 day 10% off sale.
That said given current economic conditions increases are probably unlikely, although *Alliance recently increased Asian fares.

On NZ. Yes you can do that so long as you commence your flights there

 

[Evan]

I figured if there was to be a price rise they would have done it yesterday with the return of normal prices, maybe that logic is flawed but anyway thats the prices for now.

SIN-PER-MEL-SYD-NRT-KIX-TPE-HKG-SIN = 560sc

That was one i did last year i think it was.
Sure a RTW is not a lot more cost but not everybody wants to go around the world just to got to Japan for example

At the time when the price was $4649 ex-AU my total cost was SGD $5980, the base cost was SG $5400, but that was with QF fuel taxes and included phone booking fees and everything.

In the end i changed my routing i think and did NRT-KIX as a land leg. I would have to re-check what ended up doing i can hardly remember now.

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[Alanslegal]

Referring to the OW site The country where you originate your journey, so the only way to get NZ prices, is to commence in NZ.

 

[ike]

To boost SC when you buy the JAL Airpass for Y10,000 o/w. At the airport you can pay Y1000 to upgrade to J on the flight to CTS and you will get J SC and pts for the extra Y1000! I got 60SC from CTS to KIX so its a good deal. You can ever pay Y8000 to upgrade to F on the HND to ITM or HND to CTS on JAL only. Worth looking into I think