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Thanks. I do understand the basics - and that Emirates is not OW. My point is .. that without Qatar seats, a decent Qantas RTW classic reward ticket is much more difficult to piece together. Just another negative for Qantas FFs.

Maybe I am confused? According to AFF, the Qantas RTW Oneworld Classic Flight Reward lets you fly around the world for 132,400 Qantas points in Economy, or 318,000 points in Business class! Without Qatar in the mix, options are reduced. Happy to be enlightened ...

Why the arrogant silence from Qantas and Qatar, leaving FFs and media alike speculating? And will Qantas now replace Qatar on the RTW classic reward with Emirates and change the 'has to be OW airlines' requirement?

Thanks for the welcome. Yes, I'm across most of the history. Just find it hard to believe that a) Qantas can treat its FF members so poorly, and, b) that some of our great aviation writers are not calling out the behaviour. Lots of ordinary folks impacted by all of this. So much for 'One World'.

Qantas and Qatar are already 'divorced' informally - no Qatar reward seats via Qantas, can't book anything via Doha on the Qantas site, no Qatar seats on RTW classic reward tickets this year, etc etc. The two airlines obviously dont like each other. 'Formal' divorce would wreck 'OneWorld' so the...