Booking RTW (QFF reward redemption) AND a simple return (cash) 18+ months in advance

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BenAlexander

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We need to be in Canada in October and current prices appear to be close to $3k each in Y. We have hundreds of thousands of points in QFF, Krisflyer and Virgin reward programs so I started looking into RTW trips and think I could find something that also gets me a Euro holiday the following year...

My original plan was to book the RTW with QF in J. I can do this, with all layovers and ground segments totalling just under 35k miles. This includes a stop over in [NRT/HKG/LAX/ORD] where I intend to make another booking to return to BNE for 10 months, before returning to carry on my RTW journey from that airport.

Roughly it would be:
1) BNE-xLAX-xORD-YTO (Oct 2019) (QF-AA)
2) YTO-HKG (Oct 2019) (CA)
... New booking, return HKG-BNE-HKG (miles not counted)
3) HKG-xHEL-TOS (SEP 2020) (CA/AY)
4) TOS-xHEL-MUC (SEP 2020) (AY)
... Surface sector MUC-ZAG
5) ZAG-xDOH-BNE (OCT 2020) (QR)

= 34,703 Miles
Great Circle Mapper

My questions are:
- How do I book the RTW, as some flights are 9 months out, and others are 21 months.
- How do I book the separate return flight, when again, some legs are well into the future. Would it be possible to find a sale fare (as most sale fares only seem to cover a few months worth of travel).
- I selected HKG as my mid point as I believe it will be easier to get one way (or return) flights there. If you believe this is wrong, and I could pay a similar price for a flight from North America to BNE return, I'd love to know about it!!


Is there anything I haven't considered?
 
I could be wrong, but from my prior RTW reading for the rules for OW, you need to complete all flights within 12 months of first flight.
 
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I could be wrong, but from my prior RTW reading for the rules for OW, you need to complete all flights within 12 months of first flight.

This is correct. My first flight will be in 8 months from now and my last will be in 20 months.
(EG: Fly out the 15th of October 2019 and make sure I am finished before the 14th of October 2020)
 
We need to be in Canada in October and current prices appear to be close to $3k each in Y. We have hundreds of thousands of points in QFF, Krisflyer and Virgin reward programs so I started looking into RTW trips and think I could find something that also gets me a Euro holiday the following year...

My original plan was to book the RTW with QF in J. I can do this, with all layovers and ground segments totalling just under 35k miles. This includes a stop over in [NRT/HKG/LAX/ORD] where I intend to make another booking to return to BNE for 10 months, before returning to carry on my RTW journey from that airport.

Roughly it would be:
1) BNE-xLAX-xORD-YTO (Oct 2019) (QF-AA)
2) YTO-HKG (Oct 2019) (CA)
... New booking, return HKG-BNE-HKG (miles not counted)
3) HKG-xHEL-TOS (SEP 2020) (CA/AY)
4) TOS-xHEL-MUC (SEP 2020) (AY)
... Surface sector MUC-ZAG
5) ZAG-xDOH-BNE (OCT 2020) (QR)

= 34,703 Miles
Great Circle Mapper

My questions are:
- How do I book the RTW, as some flights are 9 months out, and others are 21 months.
- How do I book the separate return flight, when again, some legs are well into the future. Would it be possible to find a sale fare (as most sale fares only seem to cover a few months worth of travel).
- I selected HKG as my mid point as I believe it will be easier to get one way (or return) flights there. If you believe this is wrong, and I could pay a similar price for a flight from North America to BNE return, I'd love to know about it!!


Is there anything I haven't considered?


Isn't this backtracking in either case?
 
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