5 Round-The-World Trips You Can Book with Qantas Points in 2026

The Oneworld Classic Flight Reward is hands-down one of the best uses of Qantas Points. From just 152,200 points (for an Economy ticket), plus taxes & charges, you can use this to fly around the world on Oneworld airlines.

This is such good value that many Qantas Frequent Flyers consider this the “holy grail” of redemptions – especially if you manage to book Business Class. But actually booking one of these itineraries can be easier said than done at times. Not only do you need to follow all the Oneworld Classic Flight Reward rules, but you also need to find reward seat availability.

I think a lot of people come unstuck because they try to find reward flights to fit around the a trip they’ve already planned out.

You need to take a different approach, and go in with a mindset of “how can I build a trip that works around whatever reward seats are available”. By doing this, and understanding which flights and routes are most likely to have available reward seats, it is absolutely possible to book a great trip.

To give you some inspiration, in this article I’ll share five examples of round-the-world itineraries that you can actually book with Qantas Points in 2026. All of these itineraries were available, at the time of writing, to book directly on Qantas.com.

How the Oneworld Classic Flight Reward works

Before I show you the examples of itineraries that I put together, here’s a bit of information about Qantas’ Oneworld Classic Flight Reward.

Our full guide to the Oneworld Classic Flight Reward explains exactly how this type of ticket works, including detailed instructions on how to book one. But the main things to keep in mind about this type of ticket are that you:

• Can have up to 5 stopovers (of more than 24 hours)
• Can have up to 16 flight sectors in total (although the Qantas website only lets you book itineraries with up to 10 sectors)
• Can fly up to 35,000 miles in total
• May have up to two optional surface sectors (where you fly into one city and then pick up the next leg from a different city), which count towards your total mileage
• Must fly on at least two Oneworld airlines other than Qantas (you can also fly Qantas if you wish), and cannot use airlines that are not in the Oneworld alliance

As a reminder, as of 2026, these airlines are in the Oneworld alliance:

Also, Hawaiian Airlines will join Oneworld on 22 April 2026.

As long as you follow all these rules, the cost for a Oneworld Classic Flight Reward is:

• Economy: 152,200 Qantas Points + taxes & charges
• Premium Economy: 287,000 Qantas Points + taxes & charges
• Business: 365,800 Qantas Points + taxes & charges
• First: 523,200 Qantas Points + taxes & charges

The main limitation is reward flight availability

Reward flights have limited availability, especially if you’re looking for multiple seats, premium cabins, or want to travel during peak periods like school holidays. You need to be flexible, as there are some routes that rarely or never have seats available to book using points.

Often, getting in and out of Australia is actually the hardest part. Once you’ve find available flights to/from Australia, building out the rest of your itinerary might be a bit easier.

The Qantas Flight Reward Finder can help a lot

The newly-released Qantas Flight Reward Finder can also help you to find reward seats. I used this when building out the examples for this article, and it allowed me to easily pinpoint available seats on the routes, cabin classes and for the number of passengers that I was looking for.

The ability to search for flights by region is particularly helpful. For example, you can search in just a few clicks for all Business Class seats from Australia to North America in September.

Examples of round-the-world itineraries you can book online in 2026

Below, I’ll share six examples of Oneworld Classic Flight Reward itineraries that are actually possible to book on the Qantas website in 2026. I’ll share a mix of Economy, Premium Economy and Business Class itineraries – each for multiple passengers.

The final Business Class itinerary is not actually “round the world”, but shows an example of another way that you could use one of these bookings.

As reward flight availability is subject to change, the exact flights shown in these examples might not be available any more by the time you read this article. But they should give you some ideas of the kind of thing that’s possible with the Oneworld Classic Flight Reward.

Itinerary #1 (Economy for 4 passengers)

As Economy seats are much more readily available than Premium Economy, you’ll have a greater choice of routings when booking Economy Class. For example, I had no trouble finding the following flights for 4 passengers (2 adults and 2 children):

This is how the routing looks on a map:

The cost for this itinerary would be 152,200 Qantas Points + $1,007.78 per adult, with slightly lower taxes for children. Note that you could reduce the tax amount to $683.08 per adult by switching out the direct Vancouver-London flight on British Airways to a one-stop routing from Vancouver to London via Seattle on Alaska Airlines. (This is because Alaska Airlines doesn’t add carrier charges, while British Airways does.)

How you could book this

After finding available seats for each leg using the Qantas Flight Reward Finder, simply plug your itinerary into the Qantas multi-city booking tool:

You can then go through and select each flight, one at a time. Make sure you only choose flights on Oneworld airlines.

Itinerary #2 (Economy for 4 passengers)

Here’s another example of an Economy itinerary I put together for 4 passengers. This one starts and ends in Adelaide:

The cost for this itinerary is 152,200 Qantas Points + $952.15 per adult (with the co-payment for children being a bit less).

Itinerary #3 (Premium Economy for 2 passengers)

There is a reasonable amount of Premium Economy availability going around. However, a big limitation when booking a Oneworld Classic Flight Reward in Premium Economy is that many flights don’t have this cabin. So, you need to stick with airlines and routes where Premium Economy is available – or accept a downgrade to Economy where it’s not offered.

Out of Australia, you can sometimes find Premium Economy Reward seats on Qantas flights from Sydney to Auckland, Singapore and the US. Cathay Pacific also has plenty of Premium Economy availability from Australia to Hong Kong. If you just want one seat, you could use Finnair’s new Melbourne-Bangkok flight.

Finnair also has plenty of Premium Economy availability from Asia or North America to Helsinki, and Japan Airlines often has Premium Economy availability between Tokyo and Seattle, San Francisco or San Diego.

With this in mind, here’s an example of a Oneworld Classic Flight Reward in Premium Economy that I put together for 2 people:

Note that the British Airways flight from London to Brussels would be in Economy because Premium Economy is not offered on this sector.

This trip would cost 287,000 Qantas Points + $1,955.16 per passenger.

Itinerary #4 (Premium Economy for 2 passengers)

Here’s another example of a Premium Economy itinerary that I found for 2 people:

This would cost 287,000 Qantas Points + $870.98 per passenger. (The co-payment is lower because we’ve avoided using British Airways across the Atlantic.)

Itinerary #5 (Business for 2 passengers)

Finding flights that each have two Business Class reward seats is trickier, but not impossible. Out of Australia, you can sometimes find multiple Business reward seats available on Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, SriLankan Airlines or Fiji Airways. Even Qantas may have seats available to destinations like Jakarta, Manila, Hong Kong, Nadi, Delhi, Bengaluru or New Zealand.

With this in mind, here’s an example of a Business Oneworld Classic Flight Reward for 2 people:

This itinerary would cost 365,800 Qantas Points + $962.46 per person.

Bonus example: Business Class but not around the world (for 2 passengers)

One of the hardest parts about putting together a round-the-world trip in Business Class is securing availability over the Pacific Ocean. To get around this – and if you don’t want to visit America anyway – you could simply book a multi-city trip to Europe or Africa via Asia or the Middle East in both directions. The price is the same, and you still get up to five stopovers.

Here’s an example of this for 2 people:

This Business Class itinerary would cost 365,800 Qantas Points + $1,953.83 each.

Get help on the Australian Frequent Flyer forum

If you’re having trouble putting together a Oneworld Classic Flight Reward booking, have questions, or want tips from other AFF members, feel free to ask on our long-running forum thread (linked below).

If you’ve successfully booked a round-the-world trip, you can also share your experience and routing to help others: