Itinerary of ~26h layover (due to NRT-HND connect time)

[bernardblack]

I am looking at potentially trying to return 4x pax from North America to Australia, in J, next year (If we can travel). JL routinely has sufficient availability from several North American ports, and YVR-NRT/HND-SYD will actually price out using multicity, just under the 9600mi upper limit of a fare band. Changing to any port arriving in HND, or to the NRT-MEL flight, goes into the next mileage band.

The layover time is about 2h, which is insufficient to transfer NRT-HND and won't proceed to book. On that basis, is there a chance of getting a Qantas agent to ticket this as a through itinerary on the following day's HND-SYD flight, with a 26h layover?

 

[sudoer]

On that basis, is there a chance of getting a Qantas agent to ticket this as a through itinerary on the following day's HND-SYD flight, with a 26h layover?

I don't believe this is possible, but I could be wrong.

If Qantas schedule NRT-BNE flights again, you could skip the land transit altogether and book YVR-NRT-BNE-SYD within the 9600mi band.

 

[henrus]

Nope, 24 hours is the maximum, and it'd have to reprice as two separate fares if over 24 hours (165,000 in J oneway pp).

In fact, 2 hours won't ticket either because the minimum connection time between NRT and HND is 3hrs 30 minutes across all airlines.

Because you're just under the segment/mileage limit there's not much that can be done. If you had milage to play with I'd say 2x domestic flights from Tokyo to Osaka could bring it down under 24 hours or otherwise look at stops in HNL instead (or start the ticket in HNL) but obviously both of those involve extra travel time and cost.

 

[Matt_01]

I would have thought not. Have you checked the points, in my experience once you go over 24 hours it is considered a stop and the points calculation will be based on US-JP and then JP-AU not a mileage distance.