Single Booking on Star Alliance?

[ctrunfree]

Hi people

I'm looking at flying MELB-asian stopover-Europe (ideally AMS), then back from Europe (preferably MAD or CDG) to CPT, then back to MELB

I hate overnight flights and try and limit them as much as possible. Some of the Star Alliance carriers have attractive daytime options (e.g. EVA BKK-AMS) but for planning purposes can all Star Alliance airlines be treated as a single carrier, or are there some sectors where you'd be hit for one-way ticket costs rather than being a leg of an eventual return journey?

 

[dajop]

Is your question in relation to a cash or award booking?

 

[ctrunfree]

Is your question in relation to a cash or award booking?

Cash, unfortunately

 

[dajop]

Ok then unless you are buying a round-the-world or circle product (eg. Circle Pacific), then each carrier effectively needs to be treated as a separate carrier. There are some exceptions, such as the Lufthansa group of airlines (Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian) which often can be used interchangably, and there are tickets that some carriers sell that allow travel on other carriers where they don't serve a destination (such as Australia) and there are some joint venture arrangements between particular regions (eg United & Lufthansa group across the north Atlantic and United/ANA across the north Pacific).

For your needs, get in touch with a travel agent to check options. From memory Swiss (LX)) have a fare that might allow you to travel to BKK on Thai, then to Europe on Swiss (BKK-ZRH is a day flight on LX too), then to JNB on Swiss again and back to Australia on QF or SA. It certainly does (or did) have such a fare that allowed travel back via US, but not sure if it allows it via Africa.

 

[ctrunfree]

Ok, thanks, it sounds like one for the travel agent to sort out.