round the world

Other then a one week trip to Singapore last September (which was booked prior to Qantas saying they were removing the booking requirement for last years status extension), I haven't been able to travel anywhere since my last holiday in late 2019. So I now have around 15 weeks of annual leave...

Hi brains trust I am trying to book what I would have thought was a pretty standard round the world itinerary for a business trip in June: SYD-LHR LHR-JFK SFO-SYD Qantas will do it at $22k (thanks very much) but the only other options I have found are with stupid routings (eg LHR-JFK leg is...

Can someone please help me ASAP, I'm not getting anywhere with Qantas overseas consultants. I have a RTW award booking that commences this Friday, and I've found out that the last flight QR900 has been removed from my booking. The latest e-ticket received 6 weeks ago shows all flights confirmed...

I am looking at booking a Star Alliance RTW reward trip using krisflyer points. I have a couple of questions: I'm hoping for the trip to be as follows. Sydney, Halifax, Dublin, Glasgow, London, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Paris, Singapore and Sydney (which includes some land legs). 1. If I want to...

Being QFF Gold and churning 6 cards a year I have been accustomed to flying business only for the last several years and with enough persistence i generally get the flights in after (SYD - BKK and back). With an upcoming family trip it took all my effort to navigate a business class around the...

Can anyone suggest a good way to research rtw fares? I am currently looking for rtw3 j with Europe as 2nd continent. Syd/lon/nyc/syd (example). Easy enough to put in multi-city but does not show some rtw fares that I believe are available such as with with LX, FY and OS. Later in the year I...

Booked very first round the world trip. BNE - SYD (J) - 13800 EY miles +$29.44 flying on Virgin Australia SYD - LAX (J) - 95000 delta miles + $176.6 flying on delta LAX - BNA (Y) - $454 cash flying on AA BNA - ZRH (Y) - 30000 UA miles +$16.86 flying on UA ZRH - ADL (J) - 85000 AA miles +...

My partner and I are trying to travel over Christmas to Europe using points, business class. What routes in and out of the country should I look at? I am struggling to find any availability for business period. I am happy to fly out of any city.

I've had ~22 months of paid Qantas Club membership 'parked' since 2010 when courtesy of a DONE4 I jumped from NB to WP in a couple of months (and, a couple of years of SG notwithstanding, have remained there). A couple of years ago, just prior to the pandemic, I achieved LTG. So the QC...

Starting my legwork on this already booked and paid 2023 RTW itinerary purchased from LH. I am currently QFF Gold and the first two legs make sense to go to QFF as that will requal me for the following membership year. My goal would be to achieve Star Alliance Gold status with miles credit...

Hi all, I'm currently planning our trip for two to Europe+Japan using oneworld classic-reward RTW (business) with the following itin below: Day 1-2 : – Flight [Melbourne > Sydney > London > Madrid] (Qantas + BA) – Departing Melbourne 13.00 – Arriving Madrid 11.05 Day 2-4 : – Explore...

RTW Swiss and United. Want to use points in Australia and south pacific. Virgin doesn't credit Swiss. Any thoughts on best FF programme to use ?

Hi Evryone, In your opinion/experience, was it easier to redeem the Star Alliance or the ONeWorld RTW award (J) tickets? I understand that I will have to call SIA for Star Alliance redemption, but what about One World? Can it be done online on QFF website?? Thanks!

Hi All..... Clarence here Starting up a thread of curiosity out there.... How many legs did you fly in your RTW booking and let's see who has flown the most legs and share any interesting stories from that trip? Kicking it off - Back in 2015, I flew for a holiday over 40 days RTW - 8 legs...

Hi there! Hoping to pick the brains of this community. Simply put - I have booked HND-SYD on JAL in PE as part of a OW RTW award (rest of the flights are in J / U class). I can see there are now J class seats available on NRT-MEL, so have been requesting to change to this flight. But QF keeps...

From 5 July 2022 onwards, the redemption award levels will be revised to 200,000 KrisFlyer miles in Economy Class, 280,000 KrisFlyer miles in Business Class and 405,000 KrisFlyer miles in First Class. -Singapore Airlines

Hi all, New poster here, so appreciate any help I can get :) I've currently booked the following RTW itinerary via Star Alliance in Business class for some work travel. SYD -> SFO United (Z) SFO -> LAX United (Z) LAX -> EWR United (Z) EWR -> CDG United (Z) CDG -> FRA Lufthansa (Z) FRA -> LHR...

I’ve got a couple of questions I have signed up to velocity and Singapore airlines(I also have qantas) and have booked some domestic flights before with velocity which is easy but could someone help me out I have read pointshack My girlfriend parents live in Thailand and we would like to see...

Hi. My wife and I are both VA Platinum and have booked Lufthansa RTW Business class flights for October 2022. Routing is MEL-SIN on SQ with Swiss code share, SIN-ZUR-LHR on Swiss and DUB-FRA-ATL on LH (then award Delta ATL-ABQ) with UA from ABQ-SFO-MEL. Fare class is P and cost was ca $7000. We...

Hi - seeking guidance from those more experienced than I am in travel to/from the US. I am joining a tour in the US later this year, dates should be around 7-21 Nov in-country. The tour commences in NYC and ends in Dallas. While I wait for exact start/finish dates I have been looking into...