Travel planning software - Advice please

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My wife and I are looking at a longish trip next year from ADL-SYD-LAX-LAS-CDG-LHR-SIN-ADL.
I tried using the QF Round the world planner, and it sort of worked, but it does not allow you to see what costs go with each sector as you go.
I would like to use QF as much as I can, but I guess other sectors will be AA.
Is there a decent app, or program, for selecting each flight as you go, and then putting them all into one booking at the end?
Much as I'd like it all on one PNR I doubt it will happen.
I have a Great Uncle who was killed in Albert, in the Somme on July 18, 1918, and I wanted to be there 100 years to the day frpom when he was killed, but a business conference in LAS has intervened to stuff up my timing!!!
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
 
QF used to have a RTW fare called a "walkabout", but I'm not sure if that is still around. It was in partnership with BA and may have ended along with their JV.

The QF RTW planner redirects you to the oneworld xONEx booking tool, which doesn't work right at the best of times.
It's better to use the flight map/timetable on the oneworld website Where we fly - oneworld, multi destination flights, then contact the airline or travel agent to book.

If you want to stick to oneworld (QF, AA, BA, etc) with such a route, you can get an xONE4 or xGLOB29. You would need to connect somewhere for LAS-CDG and SIN-ADL (something like ADL-SYD-LAX-LAS-DFW-CDG-LHR-SIN-PER-ADL)
Same class bookings for xONE4 and xGLOB29 have the same base price ($3899+tax in economy (per sector surcharges available for premium eco upgrades), $11999 in business), but if you go over 29,000 miles, you'd be on the next fare up (xGLOB34), so an xONE4 would likely be better.
You can have up to 16 flights on the ticket. The base fare is the same regardless of how many flights or where they are. The taxes change based on where you route through and have stop overs etc.
 
My wife and I are looking at a longish trip next year from ADL-SYD-LAX-LAS-CDG-LHR-SIN-ADL.
I tried using the QF Round the world planner, and it sort of worked, but it does not allow you to see what costs go with each sector as you go.
I would like to use QF as much as I can, but I guess other sectors will be AA.
Is there a decent app, or program, for selecting each flight as you go, and then putting them all into one booking at the end?
Much as I'd like it all on one PNR I doubt it will happen.
I have a Great Uncle who was killed in Albert, in the Somme on July 18, 1918, and I wanted to be there 100 years to the day frpom when he was killed, but a business conference in LAS has intervened to stuff up my timing!!!
Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Enjoy. I'll be in Albert again about a month before you. If you don'y know already, make sure you visit the museum at the Cathedral, and the tunnels under the town square which you access from this museum.
 
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Thank you so much for that information.
It was only recently that we discovered he was KIA in Albert, so I'm still researching the town.
I'll add that to the list of things to see!
We then need to go to the Borre British Cemetery where he is buried.
 
Thank you so much for that information.
It was only recently that we discovered he was KIA in Albert, so I'm still researching the town.
I'll add that to the list of things to see!
We then need to go to the Borre British Cemetery where he is buried.

Then use this thread if you need to find it. - Like most of the towns/villages in the area, they're quite small and close together, as are the cemetaries. We're staying in Bapaume a few km down the road from Albert. War Graves & Cemeteries of the WW1 Somme Battlefields, France.
 
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