General question - I'm wanting to book a round the world trip in October and baulked at the price of nearly $6k to go brisbane-dubai-berlin-barcelona-newyork-miami-rio-santiago-brisbane. Is this a ballpark figure or am I being taken well and truly for a ride? It seems i might be better off booking individual segments. Im stopping off in germany (1 week), vienna (1 week), barcelona (1 week), new york (5 days), rio (1 week), santiago (1 week).
Any ideas appreciated.
Which website were you using to calculate this or was in through a travel agent?
I'd consider paying sector airfares for a few of the flights within Europe, USA & South America then price the major longhaul flights on the one ticket. There as so many different ways you could construct a fare and sometimes just removing one flight and paying for it separately could make thousands of dollars difference to the cost of a ticket.
Example one
International ticket: BNE/xDXB/TXL - BCN/JFK - MIA/RIO - SCL/xSYD/BNE
Separate tickets: TXL/BCN, JFK/MIA, RIO/SCL
Example two
International ticket: BNE/xDXB/TXL - BCN/JFK/xLAX/BNE
Separate ticket: JFK/MIA, MIA/RIO, RIO/SCL, SCL/JFK
The second example above is essentially half a return fare via the EH BNE to TXL with a DXB transit with an open jaw turnaround point ie flying into TXL & out of BCN. The return fare component is half the BNE/BCN fare via the AP with a stopover in JFK and transit in LAX. On the separate tickets from the USA to South America you may even be able to have less fare components if you could find an airfare JFK/RIO which allows a stopover in MIA and RIO/JFK which allows a stop in SCL.
There's endless possibilities really.
I take it it's a paid fare or would you be open to using frequent flyer points for any of the travel? You could always join the Alaska Airlines mileage program & buy points and redeem on CX JFK/HKG/BNE to come home.
Is it self funded or does your company have a budget for your trip?
) 1 piece luggage included up to 23kg
