Thanks all for answers.
I am fiddling around with a test itinerary on the OneWorld website.
Have selected a likely route to middle east, then Europe, UK (LHR), the USA (NYC then on to LAX), then back to SYD. At this stage I am looking well into the future, so trialling dates in May 2015 through to early June 2015.
Then at the bottom it says "Price my itinerary". I do so.
It shows dollars required for flights and taxes/fees.
No probs so far but
i) How do I convert to points? I have proceeded through the steps up to the point of actually making a booking, but at no time is there an opportunity to make this an awards itinerary. Must be something I am missing but have scoured the site all over for the hidden button to no avail.
ii) As previously asked & answered I was thinking of a final hurrah for last leg in J, but clearly no go, so there's a tickbox option for PE upgrade. Sweet - I'll tick it, and see how much more it is. so WITHOUT the PE upgrade, the flight component is $21,816*. After ticking, and repricing, the flights total $15,596*. That is WITH the upgrade, a discount of $6,220! With the upgrade! Anyone care to comment on that?
* That is without pricing one of the legs coz the OW site wouldn't show up any available flights, even though I know they exist because I confirmed on the airlines website. This is from AMM (I reckon checking out Petra would be really cool) to TLV (would love to visit The Holy Land). Royal Jordanian does the route, but not showing up. I think coz I am trying too far out. For now, this is just an irrelevent sidebar to the questions above, but the pricing would change accordingly once that leg had been priced. For now I put it down as a surface sector.