Sydney - Athens - New York - Sydney - one world ticket?

[cyncynangel]

Hi all,

Would like to get advices from you guys if I want to book Sydney - Athens - New York - Sydney, should i be making a booking through the one world fare? or what is the cheapest way to do this? Wouldn't mind transitting in any asia countries

Thanks

 

[moa999]

Totally depends.
Do you want QFF points, do you just want the cheapest fare....

A oneworld ticket can be useful for RTW, particularly in Business/First but Australia is not a cheap starting point and if only doing three stops can probably be bettered point to point, particularly if wanting to use LCCs

 

[cyncynangel]

I just want the cheapest fare
what is LCCs?

 

[moa999]

LCCs - Low cost carriers

eg. Scoot/ Jetstar to Singapore, Air Asia X to KL.
A cheap Euro/Asian to Athens.
Something across to NY.
Maybe an AA YUP/KUP to HNL (lots of QF SCs this way)
Jetstar back home

An Economy RTW is generally $3.5k plus. I suspect you can do better point to point.

 

[cyncynangel]

I think we will still prefer to do CX/QF...etc with economy ticket. How does the muti-city works?

where can i search for cheap prices on tickets?

 

[DTM1]

I think you'll find that if you don't want to book a simple round the world ticket, that you;re best off speaking to a travel agent to arrange the point to point travel for this type of trip.

 

[Alanslegal]

A OneWorld RTW will cost closer to $4.5k once finalised so looks pretty pricey for potentially only a two stop itinerary (ATH,NYC), so moa999's suggestion of getting point to point fares might be worth thinking about.

A couple of years ago, there was a thread to try book a RTW journey for under $1,500 so it might give you some flight/routing suggestions:-

http://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/playground/around-world-usd-1500-00-a-22599.html

 

[grussellt]

You could also have a look at possibilities on ITA. It's a useful site to work out multi-city itineraries.

 

[N860CR]

About a year or so ago Qantas had a "sort of" RTW fare available. It was only available through travel agents.

From memory my route was SYD-SIN-LHR-JFK-LAX-MEL-SYD with stops in SIN, LHR, JFK and LAX. Cost was in the $2k region. Might be worth checking something like bestflights.com.au to see if something similar appears. Just had a quick look and something similar appears to be available right through to next year:

http://www.bestflights.com.au/cheap...sa-qantas-united-more-mini-round-world/113700