Circle Pacific
 

After reading all the good info under 'round the world ticket', I started planning a trip Miami-Santiago-EASTER ISLAND-Tahiti- Auckland-Queenstown-Melbourne-Cairnes-Sydney-San Francisco-Miami.
Two questions; Has anyone tried this route? And there are two flights from Santiago, Chile, to Papette Tahiti; one stops for a short period of time on Easter Island; the other stops for 10 hours on Easter Island. Does anyone know if the 10 hours allows time to get a quick tour (see hte statues)??

If you're looking at a real "Circle Pacific" ticket then you're missing a major requirements: one transpacific crossing has to be via the North Pacific and the other via the South Pacific. So one leg, either the outbound or the return, has to be via Asia.

Assuming this would be using the Oneworld Circle Pacific product (which it would have to be since only Lan serves Easter Island) then your route would also be limited to 29,000 miles, and you'd have to buy a separate ticket between Tahiti and New Zealand, since no Oneworld airline serves that route.

Otherwise, this route would fit within the guidelines - http://tinyurl.com/ktk624n

A 29,000 mile Circle Pacific ticket bought in the US will cost $5900 plus taxes and fees.

By comparison, a 29,000 mile Global Explorer RTW like this - http://tinyurl.com/khl3edg - would cost $5399 and would allow you to use Air Tahiti's Qantas-numbered codeshare flight between PPT and AKL. (Several airlines that aren't Oneworld members can be used with the Global Explorer but can't be with the Circle products or the Oneworld Explorer, the continent-based RTW product.)

http://www.oneworld.com/flights/round-the-world-fares

RTW and similar products are priced VERY differently depending on where you start and end. The same Global Explorer ticket, if purchased, begun and ended in London, would cost $3332 plus taxes and fees, so something like $2000 less than one starting in Miami. (Same route, just different endpoints.) Could you find a round trip ticket from Miami to London costing less than $2000? I should certainly hope so.

Thanks! I now know why my return flight did not verify - I did not know about crossing north and south Pacific!

By the way, where can I get the prices for these tickets for the various departure cities/continents?

Flights are priced according to the country of origin, not the continent or city. You can see fares using www.expertflyer.com, a paid service. Put in the same airport code for both starting and ending points, also the sale point, e.g. LAX, LAX, LAX.