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Hello from HKG! Some updates: Changes to AA codes avios earn when crediting to BAEC: Tickets issued on AA/BA/IB post 18OCT23 will earn avios on fare spend rather than fixed per segment/booking class. For RTW, it seems the calculation of the segment earn is pro-rated on the xONEx fare based on...

Just FYI, there was a video of someone recently who wasn’t able to exit the terminal under the 24hr TWOV because their layover was under 10hrs. And the terminal was apparently pretty boring too, especially without lounge access

Please upgrade me to plat; payment was made 6th Nov

I am interested in attending— is it too late to join and arrange payment? I’m a gold at this point

I have a short-haul (~700 miles) trip from HKG to Mainland China on CX I was hoping to book with Avios. With the recent BA devaluation on CX/JL I figured I'd book through QAPC -- they still have the old pricing at 16500 Avios. I was pretty excited when I got the success notification email (it's...

Within 24 hours.

My understanding is whether or not the flights themselves are inter or intra continental is unrelated to the determination of stopover vs transit; so in your example if you land 0655 and depart at 1245 same day it'd be a transit, but if you decide to spend the night in HKG and depart the...

I totally forgot about cabotage! For some reason it just didn't register for me despite having read about QF illegally selling LAX-JFK. Thanks heaps for pointing this out, I'll give them a ring...

Yes, you can get the base fare if you have access to (paid/trial) ExpertFlyer. Just go to fare information and put in the city of departure in both origin/destination, limit carrier AA, and you’ll see all the xONEx base fare prices. You can use ITA matrix to get a sense of the taxes, but the...

I've had issues with the oneworld online tool because it wouldn't recognise some <24hr cities as transits. I think the tool also picks the first segment airline as the ticketing airline, so you might have difficulties getting the route/dates changed later on if that's a consideration. I would...

I believe you can use them whenever they show up. For the PER-SYD segment when I gave the departure time, the agent just booked the AA codeshare without asking me about the flight number; think there's a strong preference of the RTW desk to use AA whenever possible. On the flip side, I had...

Thanks for the tip! If I read the rules right (one flight into and out of AK, but no restrictions on transcon from AK) ANC opens up interesting possibilities of circumventing the 1x transcon flight rule, e.g. LHR-ORD-ANC-LAX-JFK. I wanted to visit LA but this wasn't possible without giving up...

Google flights has an ‘explore’ feature, and you can filter by alliance. I then plugged into gcmap to find distance, and ExpertFlyer to find availability

Thanks for mentioning my thread. QF halves the earn on certain partner flights (e.g. MELHKG on CX J earns 60SC rather than the full 120 on QF) which is what pushed me to alternate FF programmes.

I haven't done this before, but I've read that it's possible to change the FF number right up until boarding. In your case, you could potentially leave the QFF number until your boarding pass gets printed with it, then change it online or get the lounge/gate agent to do it for you (as the...

Long time lurker here, wanted to share the process of planning and booking a oneworld round the world ticket to help others as it can be complex. The background is I'm moving to HKG soon, and yearly HKG-MEL-HKG trips back home is going to be on the table. After a bit of research here and on...