Oneworld circle asia fare.

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simongr said:
A pretty boring fare but it does enable me to potentially get an F seat ($7K) rather than J ($4K) if the schedule doesnt allow for J seats ;)

Boring maybe, but good value IMO when comparing fares just to PVG or HKG from Oz, and you still have plenty of other available flights/destinations included in the fare.

I can and will make good use of this product.
 
simongr said:
Right I think I might actually be able to use this fare later this year to go:

SYD-PVG-HKG-SYD

A pretty boring fare but it does enable me to potentially get an F seat ($7K) rather than J ($4K) if the schedule doesnt allow for J seats ;)
The first two sectors are only two class aircraft, so F would only be HKG-SYD. Better than nothing though I guess....

Edit: That is assuming you fly QF SYD-PVG
 
Shano said:
The first two sectors are only two class aircraft, so F would only be HKG-SYD. Better than nothing though I guess....

Edit: That is assuming you fly QF SYD-PVG

I believe QF is the only carrier he can use on the AAS fare for that leg - but yes no F on the first 2 legs.

There's CX F on the last leg. Better than nought indeed. ;)
 
The F seat back to SYD really made a difference last week - I really slept well and was not tired at all on the Friday - I could have even gone into the office.
 
Hmm - question does a stopover have to be a minimum of 24 hours?

I am thinking of going SYD-HKG-NRT-SYD on this fare - basically using it to keep the cost of the trip down as I have to fly QF up to HKG (my boss is on a DONE4 and using on of his flights to get to Asia) and am thinking to keep cost down I can get a flight to NRT and either go straight home (purely a transit) of kip one night at NRT (in a hotel).

If necessary I could fly to NRT during the day - kip at airport Hotel, train to the CIty - do imperial palace and then train back to NRT and night flight home - but this would not be a preferred option.

Simon


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Also - I am just speculating. I wanted to use these tickets to get up into China again but given that CX and QF have very limited flights into/out of PVG I am buying those as separate tickets. What I am wondering (and it wont be a decision maker) would be if - if I book a CircAsia and separate tickets to PVG if KA join oneworld sooner than November could I tweak the circasia to include some KA flights and dump the KA separate bookings?
 
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simongr said:
Hmm - question does a stopover have to be a minimum of 24 hours?
Yes the technical definition of stopover is anything >24 hours.
 
JohnK said:
Yes the technical definition of stopover is anything >24 hours.
This is the case for DONE4's and xCIRnn's.

Note that stopover definitions can vary depending upon individual fare rules.
 
Per the fare rules:

FOR -17 TYPE FARES 2 FREE STOPOVERS REQUIRED AND A MAXIMUM OF 5 PERMITTED. STOPOVER ALLOWED ONLY ONCE AT THE SAME POINT. NOTE - 1.TWO STOPOVERS REQUIRED OUTSIDE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 2.A MAXIMUM OF ONE STOPOVER IN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 3.WHERE A PASSENGER DISEMBARKS AT ONE POINT AND RE-EMBARKS AT A SUBSEQUENT POINT ENROUTE THE POINTS COUNT AS A SINGLE STOPOVER. AND - UNLIMITED STOPOVERS PERMITTED AT USD 100.00 EACH. NOTE - 1.ADDITIONAL STOPOVERS MAY NOT BE PURCHASED IN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 2.CHILD/INFANT DISCOUNT NOT APPLICABLE

It would seem that the two stopover rule is just for 17 type rules - so my syd-hkg-nrt-syd at 11,500 miles should be fine?

Looks like its time to book - and I can even use my $300 vouchers from QF
 
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Hmm - just called to book a circle asia for tgtwwm and we are only going to HKG and back. So I booked him into the traditional syd-hkg[stop]-nrt-syd routing and was told that for the CircleAsia there is a min 2 stop requirement so they just booked it so that he now stops at NRT overnight.

Does anyone have a copy of the fare rules that show the min 2 stop requirement for both 13 and 17 fares?

Is it worth emailing oneworld for more info?
 
simongr said:
Per the fare rules:

FOR -17 TYPE FARES 2 FREE STOPOVERS REQUIRED AND A MAXIMUM OF 5 PERMITTED. STOPOVER ALLOWED ONLY ONCE AT THE SAME POINT. NOTE - 1.TWO STOPOVERS REQUIRED OUTSIDE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 2.A MAXIMUM OF ONE STOPOVER IN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 3.WHERE A PASSENGER DISEMBARKS AT ONE POINT AND RE-EMBARKS AT A SUBSEQUENT POINT ENROUTE THE POINTS COUNT AS A SINGLE STOPOVER. AND - UNLIMITED STOPOVERS PERMITTED AT USD 100.00 EACH. NOTE - 1.ADDITIONAL STOPOVERS MAY NOT BE PURCHASED IN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 2.CHILD/INFANT DISCOUNT NOT APPLICABLE

The rules you took from EF demonstrate this....

I would also like to see the full fare rules, if you get a copy could you please PM me.
 
Ahh - my mistake - I only read as far as 2 stops for 17K not the next line :oops:

Cheers
S
 
Book it with a stopover in NRT. Then after it has been ticketed see if you can change the date of the NRT-SYD flight to be a day earlier. Might work. I had a similar "problem" when QF would not ticket QF9 SYD-SIN-MEL-SYD all as connecting flights on separate coupons (to maximise QF SC earning of course ;) ). So I had them book it with a night stop in SIN and another night stop in MEL. Then after I started the DONE4, I called and changed the date of the SIN-MEL, MEL-SYD and SYD-BNE. I had no problems.

However, my issue was not to do with fare rules, but with a limitation in QF's willingness to sell a set of flights. So he might be stuck with a night in NRT.
 
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