I found the same thing, can save at least 1/3 of the cost including the air fare from Toronto to London, this is with the economy fares.
An added bonus for Canadians is we can book here with American Airlines & pay at their desk at an airport here.

Hey,

Just wondered what you ended up doing? Again, I recommend the American Airlines OneWorld Explorer ticket from South America as it came out to less than 4k USD for 20 segments. They are a pain though, but worth it in savings!!

6000 is way too much. Try pricing the tickets out by urself individually. I bet it comes out a lot cheaper. A LOT.

you can fly LA-Syd for about 800 one way and australia to singapore for about 500 dollars.

right there is only 1300 and your already half way. STA got me from Bangkok to Greece for 400 dollars. Jet Air will get you to india for pretty cheap. too.

Europe to America is about 400-500.

Just a few hints and tips guys on rtw tickets...

New E ticketing rules...

Anyone looking to buy a lengthy rtw ticket (ie a 17-20 sector trip) I'd advise to book sooner rather than later as new eticketing rules will reduce the max number of sectors on any one ticket to 16 from 20. This is due to come into effect (certainly here in the UK) in June.

One World tix...

Traditional One World Alliance tickets offer currently upto 20 sectors (2 flight numbers to one destination counts as 2 sectors) and are based on number of continents travelled. Home continent counts as 1. Here in the UK (I'm only going to guess its available in the US too) is the One World based Global Explorer where price is calculated on miles rather than continents and has greater flexibility in terms of pacific islands whilst using the same airlines as in the OW.


Some general advice

Whilst it might seem like a great idea to try and get the most out of your rtw ticket I think if you want toc cover a lot of ground in short time space do it early in the trip and have less flights later in the trip. With 6 month to 1 year trips by the time you're halfway through people often feel like they would rather not have so much structure to their itin.

Hopefully some of that will help some of you decide on which ticket to go for.

seekingsusan - I am currently in the same boat as you and my ideal route is very similar to what you have.

USA -> Fiji -> Auckland (overland to Christchurch) -> Sydney (overland to Perth) -> Bangkok -> overland to Cambodia -> overland to Vietnam -> China (overland from hong kong to beijing) -> South Africa -> Cairo -> Europe (rail across Europe) -> UK (overland to Scotland & Ireland) -> South America (Argentina/Peru/Brazil??)

I have seeked out pricing options from the following:
- STA (haven't heard back from)
- AirTreks (~$6524)
- AA OneWorld (~$5300 before taxes according to website)

Thanks for your post b/c I will definitely will check out JustFares.com for pricing and I am considering buying a OneWorld ticket in a different country and buying airfare to that country which is cheaper (for example buying OneWorld from NZ cost ~$3533USD not including ticket to NZ but its about 2K cheaper). Many options to look at and it is very overwhelming.

Speaking of vaccines I just took may and the cost was around $580. So I am hoping that is normal for what other are paying.

I am seeking an advice from anybody about my route and different options I should consider, as well as pricing.

Thanks Folks.

-Jason