Help with Taxes for Qantas Award booking

[ffhound]

Hi everyone. Can someone please help me with the taxes and carrier charges associated with a RTW economy ticket? I don't have the full amount of points yet so I can't try a sample account on the Qantas website.

Here's my question. You get the 35000 Oneworld award and decide to start your trip in Manila. This is a special choice as I have heard that the Phillipines banned carrier charges.
You book a ticket going Manila to Tokyo to London with a land segment then Amsterdam to Hong Kong and then Manila flying on One world airlines all the way. All on the same ticket.
To book this you are taken to the Phillipines website. Once you put the itinerary into the Qantas Phillipines booking engine, will only the first leg of the trip be free of carrier charges or will all legs of the round the world journey be free of carrier charges?
Thanks Peter

 

[Mattg]

I’m not sure that this Philippines rule still applies. Nonetheless, if you wanted to post an exact itinerary here (with dates etc. included) I’m sure someone here will be able to tell you what the taxes are.

 

[ffhound]

I’m not sure that this Philippines rule still applies. Nonetheless, if you wanted to post an exact itinerary here (with dates etc. included) I’m sure someone here will be able to tell you what the taxes are.

Any dates are fine. I simply want to see which legs of the trip would attract carrier charges if starting from Manila.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Any dates are fine. I simply want to see which legs of the trip would attract carrier charges if starting from Manila.

Have you tried a simple 2 flight booking? One from Manila to xx_ and then xx_ to somewhere? If you include a stopover, that will tell you if fuel surcharges are applied to the second flight, or not.

You can get a full listing of all taxes fees and charges for a booking via ITA matrix. You could enter in all your other sectors. If fuel surcharges arent applied, you’d exclude those in your calculation.

 

[aikman]

I remember looking at this back in the day and if you're lucky it would work on the first airline but sometimes not at all. Depending on the route chosen or mix of airlines it might also work on the second airline. At the end of the day it is whatever the Qantas website says it is.

 

[Mattg]

I just had a look - the taxes on the following itinerary in Y are PHP 31,979.00.

MNL-HKG-NRT on CX/JL
HND-LHR on BA
AMS-HKG on CX
HKG-MNL on CX

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I just had a look - the taxes on the following itinerary in Y are PHP 31,979.00.

MNL-HKG-NRT on CX/JL
HND-LHR on BA
AMS-HKG on CX
HKG-MNL on CX

~AUD800. Doesn't seem like all carrier charges are excluded? Or is that actually tax?

 

[Mattg]

~AUD800. Doesn't seem like all carrier charges are excluded? Or is that actually tax?

Carrier charges are not being excluded.

 

[ffhound]

I just consulted copilot. It says

In your example [as outlined earlier] all flown segments on the award ticket are protected from carrier surcharges because the journey originates in Manila.

This makes me wonder whether Qantas are oomplying with Phillipines law.

 

[dajop]

I just consulted copilot. It says

In your example [as outlined earlier] all flown segments on the award ticket are protected from carrier surcharges because the journey originates in Manila.

This makes me wonder whether Qantas are oomplying with Phillipines law.

I think Philippine law has long since changed.

I just checked Krisflyer awards, for a route with multiple star alliance options MNL-FRA. If on Singapore Airlines own metal, they don't charge fuel surcharges, as is the policy across their network. Same with Air India. Taxes come to about 25USD. If you do the same journey on Thai Airways, they simply pass on Thai surcharges, of about $239 USD which includes a $211 fuel surcharge. Similar with an itinerary involving SQ - Singapore then Lufthansa to Frankfurt - $237 in carriers charges, including a fuel surcharge on the SIN-FRA sector