DONE4 Taxes & Charges

[GoSwans]

Not sure if others have had this experience. Due to some indecision re routing only attempted to book DONE4 online yesterday to commence 21July.
MEL-SYD-SIN-HKG-xLHR-PRG-XLHR-BCN//DBV-LGW//LHR-JFK-SFO-xLAX-MEL.

As less than 8 days pre-travel unable to book online ??new.
Walking past Qantas travel centre in Collins St (Melbourne) so booked there. ? mistake

Unable to give me definite charge until confirm taxes accurately but quoted over $25,500 (for 2) including the $60 pp in person booking fee. At least I have a booking.

This would mean taxes/charges (incl cc fee) >$2,000.

This would seem ridiculous, there is only 1 GBP Dep Tax according to my calculations!

I realise this at least in part, my fault for leaving my booking so late.

Any thoughts?

 

[docjames]

I seem to recall ten days as the cutoff.

$25k sounds about rrp for 2 dones ex-aus.

 

[Dave Noble]

I would suggest phoning AA ATW desk this even in USA and getting a price from them; you should be able to reduce the "taxes" due to AA not piling on fuel fines

Dave

 

[serfty]

10 days for LONEx - A/DONEx should be fine (but perhaps not for the online tool.)

If I were booking a DONE4, I would start in AKL and Book through AA (spending from ~$400 on OZ-AKL return positioning flights).

Booking the reverse route (ex AKL and substituting that for MEL) using the online tool with AA codeshare on the first segment to force AA ticketing gives:

Fare : NZD12,499.00
+++  : NZD   908.50
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Total: NZD13,407.50

This is ~AUD11,000 per passenger total - for the $1,750 difference you might even consider EK J trans-Tasman each way.

 

[JetLagged]

Fare : NZD11,499.00
+++  : NZD   908.50
------------------
Total: NZD13,407.50

This is ~AUD11,000 per passenger total - for the $1,750 difference you might even consider EK J trans-Tasman each way.

serfty - from what you proivided above - 11,499 + 908.50 makes 12,417.50, not 13,407.50: were there other charges to include, or is the AA website from NZ adding up differently? $990 is a lot of difference.

 

[serfty]

serfty - from what you proivided above - 11,499 + 908.50 makes 12,417.50, not 13,407.50: were there other charges to include, or is the AA website from NZ adding up differently? $990 is a lot of difference.

The base fare is indeed NZD12,499 - which means the total of NZD13,407.50 (~AUD11,000) is still correct.

The

of NZD908.50 is correct.

There are two AA fuel fines in there AKL-LAX and JFK-LHR - it would have been less if JFK-LHR was on BA.

 

[JetLagged]

Interesting one, eh? Wonder if 'what you print out for me is what I pay' feasible?

 

[serfty]

Interesting one, eh? Wonder if 'what you print out for me is what I pay' feasible?

Unlikely, the TA simply submits the routing/fare details to the ticketing carrier who plug it into their computer systems which 'spits out' their

.

So ticketing on Qantas (081-) would be different to AA (001-).

It is likely that LA (045-) would be even less as they do not charge fuel fines as all