Ok so the process would be as follows
1. I transfer the points to my family member for the initial flight
2. Family member books flight for me
3. When I am ready to book subsequent flights I contact QFF and change my booking. I need the entire points in my account for the subsequent bookings. Points come off my balance and the initial points would go back on my family members balance.
4. Family member would then need to transfer points back to me.
Have I got that right?
A couple of further questions - I presume the agent when changing the booking by canceling the original flights places tem on hold so that they don't go back into the pool and get taken?
When booking the second and third flights of a RTW trip they don't create a Oneworld award yet (as individual flights are less than 140K points) so do you ring up and change the original booking from one flight to two flights or do you keep booking individual flights until you get to a flight that will take you over 140k points and then get them combined.