V-Flyer

I am hoping for a bit of help/reassurance on the Virgin Atlantic website. I'm looking at booking a multicity series of flights (London - Hong Kong - Singapore - London) but on the website the multicity option just seems to let you choose 2 cities.

Or am I just being stupid?

I believe that RTW bookings can only be done on the phone and not on-line.

Thanks. I'll give them a call then.

This is a bit of a flaw with VS, you'll have to make a booking like that over the phone.

Unless I'm mistaken you'd be able to price up a booking like that online using one of the Alliance websites e.g. Star Alliance, OneWorld, SkyTeam.

The multicity option on VS allows you to book simple open jaw flights (eg LON-HKG/SIN-LON) and that's about it, so for 3 or more sectors you can't do it online. They shouldn't call it a multicity function in my opinion.

LON-HKG-SIN-LON is a classic example of a circle trip. Do ask VS if they offer a circle fare for this type of itinerary. I have only booked the open jaw version of it, LON-SIN/HKG-LON. Circle fares may work out cheaper.

And a warm welcome pedro.

Hi Pedro, can I ask you how much you got that fare for in the end?
We're looking at something similar and using Virgin to Hong Kong, United from Hong Kong to Singapore and the Virgin codeshare back from Singaport it was coming in at about 850 in cheapest season.

Thanks - Ed

quote:Originally posted by eejp1007

We're looking at something similar and using Virgin to Hong Kong, United from Hong Kong to Singapore and the Virgin codeshare back from Singaport it was coming in at about 850 in cheapest season.


For 850 you should expect to be able to fly SIA and not United. You can book LON-HKG/SIN-LON for 655 (current lowest fare) which is the same as the SIA return fare from LON-SIN). A one-way United fare HKG-SIN should be no more than 110 making that 765 in total.

The difference in quality between United and SIA in Y class is huge, and worth the extra anyway. If price is more of a factor over timing, then doing a simple return LON-SIN-HKG on SIA with a stopover in SIN on the return will be the cheapest option (under 700 return).

Through Virgin I was quoted a price well over a thousand pounds. SIA comes in at a more reasonable 700 but means flying to Singapore to get a connection to Hong Kong adding about 6 hours onto the journey. I'm going to do more investigating!

quote:Originally posted by Strawberry Muppet
quote:Originally posted by eejp1007

We're looking at something similar and using Virgin to Hong Kong, United from Hong Kong to Singapore and the Virgin codeshare back from Singaport it was coming in at about 850 in cheapest season.


For 850 you should expect to be able to fly SIA and not United. You can book LON-HKG/SIN-LON for 655 (current lowest fare) which is the same as the SIA return fare from LON-SIN). A one-way United fare HKG-SIN should be no more than 110 making that 765 in total.

The difference in quality between United and SIA in Y class is huge, and worth the extra anyway. If price is more of a factor over timing, then doing a simple return LON-SIN-HKG on SIA with a stopover in SIN on the return will be the cheapest option (under 700 return).



Thanks - that definitely seems the simplest and most cost & time effective way. The more I tried to be clever and complicate things the more the costs kept spiralling!

Yep, buying an open jaw on Virgin and then because you are not on any connecting flights it's fine to be on a seperate ticket between Hong Kong and Singapore.
I was looking at the flights between Hong Kong and Singapore and it's so nice seeing fares with normal levels of tax instead of anything in this country.