'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.

[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.

[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??

[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.

[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.