huwcar
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- Jan 16, 2009
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Hi everyone,
I've enjoying being a member and reading everyone's stories and learning from their experiences for a few weeks now.
Along with the Mrs, I'm heading off on a RTW ticket for about 5 weeks starting in mid July and I thought I'd share my experience (with the online OW booking tool) so far, as well as pose some questions.
Firstly, about me:
QFF NB, currently with 0 SC and about 120k points.
Live in and returning to MEL
We have to travel around this time to be in the UK in early August for some weddings
Taking advantage of having to go OS anyway, we have decided to make the most of it over about 5 weeks and this is our current WIP itinerary:
MEL-xLAX-LAS-NYC-TOR-xMIA-ANU-LON-AMM-DEL-HKG-SIN-MEL
The online tool allows you to select specific flight numbers (and therefore who tickets the flights for you) so for the above itinerary:
First flight on QF = $4450 AU
First flight on AA = $3777 AU
Mind you, this is for the exact same flights.
I also read that LONE4 flights ex NZ are more economical, so with the slight tweak of (and again with exact same flights):
AKL-xLAX-LAS-NYC-TOR-xMIA-ANU-LON-AMM-DEL-HKG-SIN-MEL-AKL
First flight on QF (quoted in NZ$) = $3770 AU
First flight on AA (quoted in US$) = $3099 AU
Obviously QF +++ is ridiculous, and it makes me angry that most people in AUS would be blindly handing over their hard earned $$! Hopefully that info can help others with booking an LONE4 and trying to pinch the pennies.
At this stage of the process, I also have a couple of questions:
* Is my AA ex-Akl LONE4 the most economical option?
* Will I earn QFF points booking this way, if not what program should I join?
* Are there itinerary tweaks I can make to maximise FF and SC if applicable?
* Will I be able to select seats on the flights and how else can I help to ensure the most comfort on the flights? (I'm quite tall BTW)
* Would there be any benefit in joining QP? Is there some other lounge club that might be better to join?
If you made it to the end of this post, well done! Have a gold star: *
-Huwcar.
I've enjoying being a member and reading everyone's stories and learning from their experiences for a few weeks now.
Along with the Mrs, I'm heading off on a RTW ticket for about 5 weeks starting in mid July and I thought I'd share my experience (with the online OW booking tool) so far, as well as pose some questions.
Firstly, about me:
QFF NB, currently with 0 SC and about 120k points.
Live in and returning to MEL
We have to travel around this time to be in the UK in early August for some weddings
Taking advantage of having to go OS anyway, we have decided to make the most of it over about 5 weeks and this is our current WIP itinerary:
MEL-xLAX-LAS-NYC-TOR-xMIA-ANU-LON-AMM-DEL-HKG-SIN-MEL
The online tool allows you to select specific flight numbers (and therefore who tickets the flights for you) so for the above itinerary:
First flight on QF = $4450 AU
First flight on AA = $3777 AU
Mind you, this is for the exact same flights.
I also read that LONE4 flights ex NZ are more economical, so with the slight tweak of (and again with exact same flights):
AKL-xLAX-LAS-NYC-TOR-xMIA-ANU-LON-AMM-DEL-HKG-SIN-MEL-AKL
First flight on QF (quoted in NZ$) = $3770 AU
First flight on AA (quoted in US$) = $3099 AU
Obviously QF +++ is ridiculous, and it makes me angry that most people in AUS would be blindly handing over their hard earned $$! Hopefully that info can help others with booking an LONE4 and trying to pinch the pennies.
At this stage of the process, I also have a couple of questions:
* Is my AA ex-Akl LONE4 the most economical option?
* Will I earn QFF points booking this way, if not what program should I join?
* Are there itinerary tweaks I can make to maximise FF and SC if applicable?
* Will I be able to select seats on the flights and how else can I help to ensure the most comfort on the flights? (I'm quite tall BTW)
* Would there be any benefit in joining QP? Is there some other lounge club that might be better to join?
If you made it to the end of this post, well done! Have a gold star: *
-Huwcar.