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I think we will find out on the 17th.Do we have any consensus on whether we'll be re-priced at the higher rate after 17/09?
I think we will find out on the 17th.Do we have any consensus on whether we'll be re-priced at the higher rate after 17/09?
Yes, American Eagle is AA and is not a Jetstar-type operation (shudder).... With AA, my questions relate to subsidiaries, like American Eagle - should I simply consider them as AA when it comes to booking? Are they AA's equivalent of JetStar?
Similar question re Alaska Airlines - they do codeshares with AA, but I'm getting the feeling that people simply can't include anything on Alaska metal in a OneWorld RTW redemption - codeshared with AA or not?
Good to know butThe txt chat does work outside Aust, I've just used it from NZ successfully
Hi PF,
Good points. I agree QF may not have its systems sorted but that doesn't mean they can't make the appropriate adjustments manually as they do now for a number of cases, eg IB taxes.
I've made a few changes to our booking and while the ticket number may have changed the PNR booking reference has not changed. It may be that the system cannot change a set of flights without "cancelling" and "reissuing" as a workaround of some sort. I didn't see a reduction in taxes as a result of amending and cancelling some Y legs, the opposite in fact!
It would be good if others had some data points.
Btw how did you get a points refund? Did your changes reduce your trip under 420k points?
Fair question. My changes gave all been adding and or subtracting sectors.I wonder if there's a difference between changing an award (by adding sectors/flights) vs changing an award (by only changes dates).
I had no success recently from China and Hong Kong.
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Still trying to finalise a Qantas OneWorld award trip. There's a problem in getting to/from YYC from the USA in August. While AA has fares for sale DFW-YYC-DFW (and from ORD), the only award availability on the QF website beyond about April 2020 is utilising WestJet, which is not part of OneWorld, so can't be used. Even the AA site is not showing much AA award availability other than utilising AS flights.
In the past, I've seen some routes (e.g., DFW-ASE-DFW) where the (seasonal) schedule is not released until some months ahead, whereas in the case of YYC, flights are currently published to about 330 days out, but with no award seats beyond about 227 days at the moment. So, there's no way that my award flights will all be booked before 18th September, or even anytime soon.
Yes, not much to be done at this stage.I'm planning to go to YYC as well. My plan is to get to SEA and maybe get another award ticket to YYC with either westjet/alaska. It's impossible to get to YYC from either DFW or ORD since nothing is open this early.
I'm either securing my tin foil hat on with gaffa tape, or I am on to something.Help! An advanced tax-related query to try to smash out before the price hike.
I am trying to change my current itinerary for 2pax:
MNL-NRT JAL J -HND-KIX JL Y // HND-HKG-PER CX J // PER-SIN QF J - SIN-KUL MH Y - KUL-NRT MH J // NRT-SEA JL J // SFO-MEL-PER QF J
To this (changes italicized)
MNL-NRT JAL J (an earlier departure but same day)- NRT-ITM JL Y // HIJ-HND JL Y - HND-HKG-PER CX J // PER-SIN QF J - SIN-NRT JL J // NRT-SEA JL J // DEN-PHX AA J - PHX-SFO AA Y - SFO-MEL-PER QF J
After my live chat assistant literally spent hours working on this for me, he told me that taxes would more than double from the current 21,490 PHP per passenger to 44,238 (AUD 597 to AUD 1230). After we discussed it back and forth - he went to the pricing team at least three times - he was unable to itemise the taxes for me per flight, and then my internet dropped out, disconnecting the live chat.
Before I try again; I need a strategy.
As far as I can figure out, paying cash for the economy flights will leave me about $600 out of pocket, so it's cheaper for me to pay cash for the tickets than an additional $1200 in taxes (protected connections aside). But these suggested new taxes just don't feel right & I want to extract max value from the ticket if I can.
The changes that could possibly impact the tax that I can think of are:
Swap a HND-KIX flight to NRT-ITM (possible different departure taxes)
Add HIJ-HND domestic Japan flight on JL attracts more charges
Swap MH SIN-KUL-NRT to a direct JL SIN-NRT - a premium departure from SIN rather than economy, but no stopover in KUL
Add AA DEN-PHX-SFO - two new departures, one in J, one in Y.
Breaking it down, based on a new dummy itinerary ex MNL (first flight as per my itinerary, second flight the one in question to check)
- Swapping the JAL flight actually removes 10 PHP per passenger from the total
- A new JAL domestic flight (HIJ-HND) adds 130PHP per passenger
- MH SIN-KUL-NRT attracts 2392 PHP compared to JL SIN-NRT 2559PHP thereby adds 167PHP per passenger
- The new AA flights add 291PHP per passenger
Thereby the new total should be around 580 PHP more per passenger, making the total 44,140 - suspiciously close to the 44,238 they've calculated for 2pax.
The only other explanation I can think of is that taxes on one of my other routes for POS PH have changed by a factor of 3 or 4, but I think this is very unlikely.
Or am I going crazy?<!?!??!?!
Yes, the changes cost 5,000 points per passenger, on each occasion that you make the changes.... And if i were to amend any sector, it will be 5k points only, right ?
And if i were to amend any sector, it will be 5k points only, right ?
I'm either securing my tin foil hat on with gaffa tape, or I am on to something.
Next step was to go through every leg of the itinerary to check what the total would be, booking the same flight again, with a dummy MNL-NRT leg at the start to ensure Philippines Point of Sale.
Interestingly, repricing my itinerary as it is results in a difference of 2600PHP per passenger - 70 or so AUD. I didnt check taxes per segment when i first booked, but do find this quite interesting.
Anyhoo, pricing the entire trip leg by leg it came to 26160PHP per passenger, which seems more correct.
Again, am I going crazy? Does the above 'logic' sound correct?
Edit: got my callback from Qantas and walked through the changes with someone who I think is from the NZ call centre. After confirming changes, came back to me to advise they can't process the changes in PHP. If it is sent to Philippines office for pricing and ticketing, there's a risk I'll lose the flights as "flights can fall off when there's no ticket number". Only option to get changes locked in is for them to manually price in USD and call me back. Now awaiting the subsequent call. Quite late for a school night!
… I would like to complete my booking tonight in business class (280K) and Qantas agents keep giving me contradictory information over the phone ...