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Hi Alex, habe you information about extending an existing booking?
Let’s say I book 10 month in advance from Europe to Australia, however my return/continue flight from Australia would be in 15 month.
Any chance to add segments to an existing ticket, once the flight schedule opens for that upcoming date?
Yes u can make changes, subjected to normal award “change/cancel” fees payable to BA executive club
Booked syd-doh-cdg//hel-lhr-bda-lhr-doh-akl with no issues
Also:
bkk-doh-cdg//dus-lhr-mex-lhr-sin-kul
And
Hkt-doh-fra//dus-lhr-jnb-lhr-kul
Taxes were 850-1,500 (2nd one was most expensive)
Excellent article.. i am accumulating avios for the last 2 years and wanted to maximize the segments, mixed cabins (F/J/Y). this article is good start for me..hope to see some economy legs itineraries as well
Do you think YYC-SEA-DOH-JED-AMM-CAI with stopovers in every city will be allowed or just like
I think it’s a bit of a long shot, but never hurts to try.
Glad to see more relevant articles! I have to admit that the last few weeks had incredibly weak blog articles and it felt a lot like crafted advertisements. I would love to see more articles of this sort
I was successfully able to book GIG-LHR (BA), LHR-DUB (BA), DUB-DOH (QR), DOH-CMB (QR), CMB-BKK (UL), BKK-HND (JAL), NRT-SFO (JAL) and JFK-LHR (BA) all in J last year. Was due to start in April, was heart breaking to have to cancel it.
Interesting. Only shows how YMMV this type of booking is. How many stopovers did you have?
I booked it around January 2020 so perhaps the rules have been tightened now. The actual stopovers were DUB, DOH, CMB, BKK, Toyko and SFO.
Interesting! the GIG-LHR leg would seem to invalidate the “return standard” criteria but you were still able to have it ticketed. Did you have that at the beginning of your journey?
Ya the order above is the actual order, GIG-LHR was the first flight, it did wonders for the taxes and fees.
wow- amazing itinerary- how many avios was that?
I didn’t bother trying to add any economy legs, so it came in at just under 25k miles so it was 240k Avios plus about $950 in taxes and fees. I got lucky though, when I was paying for it 2 of the flights had dropped out of the booking which caused the distance to drop to the 20k / 200k Avios band. She was already after charging me, then added the flights back in and never recalculated the cost.
Good job Dan.. how were you planning to connnect GIG and return.. is your actual origin is North america?
The entire thing was a 4-month trip from March – June that involved stopping in DUB twice to attend weddings. We did get the start the earlier part of the trip in March but never made it to GIG to start the multi-carrier booking. We live in Toronto, we booked a cash fare to MIA and then MIA-MVD on AA J booked via Avios (not a great deal but it was last minute). We had cash fares / ferries / car rental from Uruguay, to Argentina and then to Brazil where we would start the first leg. The plan was to then end up in LHR at the very end in June, cash fare to DUB for the wedding and then back to YYZ with EI booked via Avios.
thx for the info Dan.. well now that the trip is cancelled. are you planning for different itinerary.. I am based from YYZ as well and wanted to maximize the segments and cover South america, Middle east, Asia (tokyo, Philippines). so far accumalated 300k avios for family of three and started reading thru sample itineraries and mix the last leg Y combination.. not able to connect the dots
I’ll have a baby soon enough so I won’t be planning a another trip like that again for some time. I would recommend FlightConnections.com and GCMap.com to help you plan a route. I found the AA wesbite the most useful when searching for availability. Keep in mind as well that unless you start in country that regulates YQ, you’ll get screwed on taxes if you plan on utilising all 8 segments. I originally had an itineary that started in BOG and they quoted me $3k each in taxes, that was why I decided to start in GIG.