I just booked another Oneworld Award for travel next year. 280k points for business class and around $1,750 in taxes. I realise that I could have brought the taxes down a little by using "cheaper" airlines and visiting fewer places, but I was happy with the itinerary overall.
This is the full routing:
FRA-MAD-GRU (stop 1 - São Paulo)
GRU-SCL-SYD-CBR (stop 2 - Canberra)
CBR-SYD-JNB (stop 3 - Johannesburg with surface sector to Windhoek)
WDH-DOH-DEL (stop 4 - Delhi)
DEL-HEL (stop 5 - Helsinki)
HEL-VIE
It took 3 phone calls to get this ticketed but we got there in the end. I was a little annoyed at being charged a 1.2% credit card surcharge when no other payment options were offered. I was also charged a 6,000-point reward booking "assistance fee", even though I was never informed about this charge and, if asked, I would have opted to pay the $70 in cash instead. I wasn't able to book online, so I also think that charging this fee is... questionable.
This trip may well be the "last hoorah" for me and QFF. I now have ~80k points left with them, and I have no plans to earn any more. I love flying Qantas, but their frequent flyer program is totally uncompetitive and, honestly, the United MileagePlus program meets my needs much better these days. Next year, for the first time, I will not bother with earning any more Qantas status credits and will focus on Star Alliance instead. I've also been getting great use out of KrisFlyer (in terms of redemptions). If I return to being loyal to Oneworld, I will seriously consider the British Airways Executive Club program over Qantas Frequent Flyer.