Just booked my OW 140,000 RTW award

[casanovawa]

After a few chops and changes and delays, finally booked my RTW trip for late May...

ADL-MEL-LAX-(LAS)-DFW-MEX-(LIM)-MIA-(ORF)//ORD-(LHR)//MAD-(JNB)-SYD-ADL

Thanks JohnK and others for help with it...

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Congratulations.

What were the taxes all up?

 

[casanovawa]

$591.19 which i think anyway is pretty reasonable... wasn't trying to pick any airports to keep taxes down... only got in under the 35,000 mile limit by a couple of hundred miles...

 

[lovetravellingoz]

$591.19 which i think anyway is pretty reasonable... wasn't trying to pick any airports to keep taxes down... only got in under the 35,000 mile limit by a couple of hundred miles...

A bargain.

 

[JohnK]

Thanks JohnK and others for help with it...

Pleasure to be able to assist.

Hope you have a great trip....

 

[serfty]

Well done, saved £55 in APD by not departing the UK.

 

[NSWhere]

Brilliant, you and the AFF team have really inspired me to attempt such a burn.

Have a great time!

 

[casanovawa]

No probs NSW go for it, and yeah, so glad i found this site before i went and spent nearly the same amount of points for less than half of what i got doing it this way... already have next years itin sketched out too...

Full spectrum of planes should be flown on this trip
A380-800 (1st time so specially chose it to Melb-LA and then down to South America rather than just fly direct which will cost me a few extra pennies!!!)
A340
A320
A319
B777
B767-300
B757
B747-400
B737-400 and 800
MD83
RJ145
just need an A330 in there somewhere and it'd be almost complete

 

[clifford]

Well done, saved £55 in APD by not departing the UK.

Yeah, got that one right.

Next month I'm flying LON-DXB on a *Alliance award (in bus class), and because of the UK taxes, its much cheaper for me to fly LHR-DUB (on a BD award) and then DUB-IST-DXB than to fly LHR-DXB.

Let's hope the UK Govt loses out big time on this (and also Germany for similar stupid taxes).

 

[casanovawa]

what is the APD tax?

 

[tuapekastar]

what is the APD tax?

Air Passenger Duty...just, I think, another name for a departure tax. It's particularly extortionate from LHR, and varies depending on distance and cabin class flown. The UK Govt tries to justify it on environmental grounds but there is a lot of (warranted, IMHO) cynicism in this regard.

I departed from LHR four times on my RTW last year, but fortunately (and the taxes were certainly taken into account when planning ) one was a domestic departure to EDI (no tax), two were to European destinations in J - ATH and HEL (GBP22 each IIRC?), and the 4th (to LAX in F) was a transit, which does not incur the tax.

I don't know all the rates but a departure to SYD in F would be a whopper!

 

[serfty]

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I don't know all the rates but a departure to SYD in F would be a whopper!

It's for all departures from the UK and varies with destination/distance.

A First class segment over 6000 miles is charged at £170!!! (It's the same for PE and Business).

BTW, that £55 I posted earlier is incorrect ... it is up to £85 for economy (£75 for LHR-JNB). :shock:

HM Revenue & Customs

 

[kaz]

After a few chops and changes and delays, finally booked my RTW trip for late May...

ADL-MEL-LAX-(LAS)-DFW-MEX-(LIM)-MIA-(ORF)//ORD-(LHR)//MAD-(JNB)-SYD-ADL

After reading about OW RTW awards, I'm thinking about planning one also.
One thing, why have you put some of the airport codes in brackets ?? eg (LAS) and then some have // between them.
Could someone explain what the ( ) and // refers to ?

thanks

 

[serfty]

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One thing, why have you put some of the airport codes in brackets ?? eg (LAS) and then some have // between them.
Could someone explain what the ( ) and // refers to ? ...

(...) is being used to indicate a transit here. Industry standard is to include an x or an o before the airport code to indicate transit or stopover with a Stopover (o) implied by omission.

ie MEL-LAX-(LAS)-DFW-MEX- could be written MEL-oLAX-xLAS-oDFW-oMEX- or MEL-LAX-xLAS-DFW-MEX- (I use the latter).

// Generally means "Open Jaw" or "Land Segment" - effectively travel not included in the ticket.

 

[casanovawa]

yep Serfty's right, the brackets is where i will be landing and spending time rather than just transiting for less than 24 hours, the slashes denote where i will land in one city, do some surface travel, and depart from a different city...

any help you'd like let me know...

 

[JohnK]

(...) is being used to indicate a transit here. Industry standard is to include an x or an o before the airport code to indicate transit or stopover with a Stopover (o) implied by omission.

ie MEL-LAX-(LAS)-DFW-MEX- could be written MEL-oLAX-xLAS-oDFW-oMEX- or MEL-LAX-xLAS-DFW-MEX- (I use the latter).

Hmmm. Same same but different. I use the (...) to indicate a stopover. :shock:

Perhaps I should use the method to include the x as a transit and the rest can just be stopovers.