'Round the world air' tickets?? Any info?

[King Herald]

In July we plan to fly from the Philippines to the UK for a week or so, but, then we want to go over to New York for a week, then carry on back to the Philippines. We don't really want to book two separate sets of flights, as that will add up to rather a large sum and probably connection issues.

It seems to be impossible to book a flight online that encompasses several destinations, so anybody have any information on how to do this?

I have heard of round RTW tickets where you can specify which stops you make, how long you stay etc. anybody used one? I'm sure it might be cheaper than buying two lots of flights, plus maybe we could make a brief stopover in some other country, for the hell of it.

We could go to a travel agent, I suppose, but they charge extra for themselves, and I'm pretty sure they are irrelevant nowadays, in this new on-line era.

[GCH]

Something like a DONE4 would probably work for you.
Details here:
http://www.oneworld.com/flights/round-the-world-fa...

Edited by GCH on Friday 27th March 20:15

[Condi]

STA travel do lots like that. You can pick 2,3,4,5,6.. however many stops you want.

[Norfolkit]

Ebookers are good for multi destination trips, used them several times.
http://www.ebookers.com/

[King Herald]

Thanks for the links. Looks promising.

Trying to use them on our super-slow internet on the ship is a real pain.

[King Herald]

WOW! Ebookers cheapest price, for Philippines - London - New York - Philippines, is 3900 quid! Per person!

That's 6 times more than a basic return Philippines to London. Hmm, I think I need to look into this a bit deeper.

[Condi]

You might find a lot of the problem is that you're not starting from the UK.

[GT03ROB]

I just did a quick check on the Oneworld tool given by someone above & it comes in at 2700quid.

That Onworld tool is great by the way if you want to waste an evening planning trips! Surprisingly ex-London you can get some fantastic fares for RTW travel covering a whole heap of destinations! Best I've done so far is LHR-Rio-Buenos Aries-Lima-Santiago-Sydney-Cairns-Darwin-KL-HK-Tokyo-Delhi-LHR all in business for 7k. Make the RTW ex-Manila seem way over the top.

[Wolff]

Google Flights multi-city search www.google.co.uk/flights Don't know when you are flying but in July can do Manilla - London - New York - Manilla with a week in both London and New York for £1540pp

[Norfolkit]

King Herald said:

WOW! Ebookers cheapest price, for Philippines - London - New York - Philippines, is 3900 quid! Per person!

That's 6 times more than a basic return Philippines to London. Hmm, I think I need to look into this a bit deeper.

I just tried (with made up dates) and it comes in at £2300

Edited by Norfolkit on Saturday 28th March 17:04

[Norfolkit]

Or try booking as separate flights.

All on eBookers with April dates a week apart
MNL - LHR £521 (with Malaysian)
LGW - JFK £428 (with Norwegian)
JFK - MNL £462 (with Philippines)

Total £1411

[King Herald]

I need to look further into this, when I get on a quicker connection. It is absurdly slow out here at sea. I'm thinking a return to the UK, then a return to New York appears to be the cheapest of all. simple, and it is sort of illogical, but seems to work.

I noticed last week, just browsing around, a return to Manila from London, on Qatar, is 80 quid cheaper than the same flight going just one way. Literally, 680 quid one way, 600 return. how does that work??

[GT03ROB]

King Herald said:

I noticed last week, just browsing around, a return to Manila from London, on Qatar, is 80 quid cheaper than the same flight going just one way. Literally, 680 quid one way, 600 return. how does that work??

Simples you can buy a return economy ticket in the cheapest fare class, you can't buy a one way in the cheapest fare class, it's usually the most expensive fare class. fare classes are effectively subdivisions of travel classes. They relate to restrictions placed on the tickets, normally flexibility.

[fizz47]

One ways are normally priced as fully flex , changeable, option to cancel etc. whereas the return ticket will be restricted fare class

[bazza1603]

Do you work on a ship?

If your travelling to and from vessels and will appear on the ships manifest you can get discounted fares

[King Herald]

I'm a seaman, but I'll be traveling with the family for holiday, so no seaman's tickets available. I usually get them when I'm flying to/from work though.

[bazza1603]

Is there not a ship sitting around New York requiring a light bulb changing?

Family get discounts as well, but would need a valid reason to visit the ship

[King Herald]

I'm pretty sure the average Joe can't just call the airline and demand a cheaper ticket, simply because he has a seaman's book. Be good if we could though.

My company have always booked my flights for work, and I've only been asked to show my seamans book at check in about three times in the last 20 years. Officially, I'm not actually signed onto the ship, as I'm merely part of the seismic crew working on the ship, so 'passengers' in the legal sense of the word.