Do I need to take the first leg on a RTW ?

[coolumbla]

I can't find the answer with an hour long search of the forum

With the family RTW for christmas in teh process of being finalised i'm investigating the best point of departure

If i leave from NZ and not Sydney i save about 3500 bucks
The first leg to HKG can be routed back via Sydney (AKL SYD)connecting to a different flight number (SYD HKG)

Anyone know if i can just not take the first leg saving me a repositioning flight? (or 5 flights in this case)

Shane

 

[Dave Noble]

No. You have to take all flights in sequence

Dave

 

[NYCguy]

If you don't show, the whole itinerary will be, like, totally cancelled.

 

[Hvr]

Anyone know if i can just not take the first leg saving me a repositioning flight? (or 5 flights in this case)

Shane

If you miss a flight then airlines generally cancel the rest of the itinerary. Therefore, you can ignore the first flight only if you want to abandon the rest of the itinerary. Sadly it looks like you're back to the drawing board, so to speak.



You can get away with not flying the last flight.

 

[coolumbla]

WHat a service!

I'm at work bored on a Saturday night reading emails
Whats the excuse for the rest of you? :shock:

Thanks team

I expected as much but you can always dream!

Now where were those cheap LAN flights?


SHane

 

[Dave Noble]

WHat a service!

I'm at work bored on a Saturday night reading emails
Whats the excuse for the rest of you?

My excuse is that it is lunchtime here

Dave

 

[coolumbla]

fair enough dave

What if i call it a surface sector? *S*

 

[Evan]

fair enough dave

What if i call it a surface sector? *S*

No chance, surface sectors are only allowed inside an itinerary and of course the exceptions of sorts listed at the end of an an itinerary (eg being able to start in one city in africa and end in another in the case of xONEx's)

If your looking at a xONEx fare here are the rules.

http://www.oneworld.com/content/library/oneworld_explorer_rule_sheet.pdf

If its *A or some other one you will have to find them, OW rule sheets are the only ones i keep links handy for.

For xONEx see rule 4-c

(c) Travel may originate at any point for which fares are published and must terminate at the same point,
except that origin-destination surface segments are permitted as follows
    (a) within the country of origin
    (b) within the Middle East
    (c) between the United States and Canada
    (d) between HKG and China
    (e) between Malaysia and SIN
    (f) within Africa

 

[NYCguy]

I'm at work bored on a Saturday night reading emails
Whats the excuse for the rest of you? :shock:

It was 8.30 a.m. where I am. Now it's almost 8.30 p.m. and I'm about to head out for dinner.

 

[Evan]

My excuse is somebody decided that we should do some system maintenance at 3:00am ! on a sunday morning. :shock: