"oneworld" award (132.4K/249.6K/318K/455K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Also consider that if you're doing it piecemeal, it's priced according to where you depart - in the above example, some European cities rather than your Australian origin for the full itinerary. POS Australia in my experience is one of the priciest.
 
Its only days off to my adding the European flights and booking of my flights home, departing Barcelona.

When I do a points dummy booking, I cannot get a direct option so with choosing a multi flight e.g. BCN - DOHA (QR) and then DOHA -ADL (QR to HKG, CX to ADL) it goes right through to the booking page. But I thought this was not allowed - 2 QR flights less than 24 hours so I am a little confused.
Another option is BCN - HKG via HEL (AY) and then CX - SYD (this connection has a 16 hour stopover in HKG, not sure whether this is good or bad).

If I take the AY option from BCN I may have to book it first as the CX flights show up a day later and I would have to ring again to add the CX flight.

Any thoughts?
 
ellen10 said:
Its only days off to my adding the European flights and booking of my flights home, departing Barcelona.

When I do a points dummy booking, I cannot get a direct option so with choosing a multi flight e.g. BCN - DOHA (QR) and then DOHA -ADL (QR to HKG, CX to ADL) it goes right through to the booking page. But I thought this was not allowed - 2 QR flights less than 24 hours so I am a little confused.
Another option is BCN - HKG via HEL (AY) and then CX - SYD (this connection has a 16 hour stopover in HKG, not sure whether this is good or bad).

If I take the AY option from BCN I may have to book it first as the CX flights show up a day later and I would have to ring again to add the CX flight.

Any thoughts?
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From what I thought is that it's only specific QR routes that use married segments, similar with other airlines. So those routes may not be married?
 
rock86 said:
From what I thought is that it's only specific QR routes that use married segments, similar with other airlines. So those routes may not be married?
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Well that would be nice. I guess the only way to find out would be to phone Qantas?
 
QFF Call centre has told me I can book one of these online. Am I missing something in that when I use the "Round the World" tool it won't let me choose points/rewards? Or is there a misunderstanding and she's talking multi-city and I said (more than once) Round the World Award flights?
 
ellen10 said:
Well that would be nice. I guess the only way to find out would be to phone Qantas?
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Good luck.
Take a look at Posts 5009/5010 in this thread.
I'd probably call and ask QF to add them in if you aren't convinced on the advice
But I'd lock in the AY flights (they disappear pretty quickly. One in the hand and all that.​
 
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11sjw said:
QFF Call centre has told me I can book one of these online. Am I missing something in that when I use the "Round the World" tool it won't let me choose points/rewards? Or is there a misunderstanding and she's talking multi-city and I said (more than once) Round the World Award flights?
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It's not a Round the World booking.
It's a One World Award.
You need to build your itinerary using the multi city tool., select Use Points - Classic Flight Rewards only
 
cjd600 said:
It's not a Round the World booking.
It's a One World Award.
You need to build your itinerary using the multi city tool., select Use Points - Classic Flight Rewards only
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Got that done for a trial routing. We wish to travel PER-YYZ-DCA-Train Travel-New York (any airport)-FRA-PVG-PER

The multi city tool and iterations around J availability for 3 has us travelling PER-SYD-DFW-YYZ-LGA-DCA-train-EWR-LHR-FRA-PVG-HKG-PER. Great Circle Mapper tells me this is under 30k miles. Stopovers YYZ, DCA, FRA, PVG and 10 sectors in total. Airlines utilised are QF, AA, BA, MU & CX.

Is there a trick to get this recognised as a OWJ Award? It currently tells me I need 360k points per person. Seems like a call to QFF is in order!
 
11sjw said:
Got that done for a trial routing. We wish to travel PER-YYZ-DCA-Train Travel-New York (any airport)-FRA-PVG-PER

The multi city tool and iterations around J availability for 3 has us travelling PER-SYD-DFW-YYZ-LGA-DCA-train-EWR-LHR-FRA-PVG-HKG-PER. Great Circle Mapper tells me this is under 30k miles. Stopovers YYZ, DCA, FRA, PVG and 10 sectors in total. Airlines utilised are QF, AA, BA, MU & CX.

Is there a trick to get this recognised as a OWJ Award? It currently tells me I need 360k points per person. Seems like a call to QFF is in order!
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MU is not partnof Oneworld, hence the reason ypur dummy booking is coming to 360k points.
 
11sjw said:
Got that done for a trial routing. We wish to travel PER-YYZ-DCA-Train Travel-New York (any airport)-FRA-PVG-PER

The multi city tool and iterations around J availability for 3 has us travelling PER-SYD-DFW-YYZ-LGA-DCA-train-EWR-LHR-FRA-PVG-HKG-PER. Great Circle Mapper tells me this is under 30k miles. Stopovers YYZ, DCA, FRA, PVG and 10 sectors in total. Airlines utilised are QF, AA, BA, MU & CX.

Is there a trick to get this recognised as a OWJ Award? It currently tells me I need 360k points per person. Seems like a call to QFF is in order!
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Is MU China Eastern? If so I don't think that is part of the Oneworld airlines.

Member Airlines - 13 airlines, multi destination flights
 
rock86 said:
Hmm, are you able to post the routes with each airline, it will give us a bit better of an idea of where the $$ in the surcharges are coming from.
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Sure

24th July 2019 PER-SYD-DFW (QF) - YYZ (AA)
7th Aug 2019 YYZ-LGA-DCA (Republic as American Eagle)
18th Aug 2019 JFK-LHR-FRA (BA)
25th Aug 2019 FRA-DIA-KUL (QR)
01st Sep 2019 KUL-HKG-PER (Cathay Dragon & CX)
 
11sjw said:
Sure

24th July 2019 PER-SYD-DFW (QF) - YYZ (AA)
7th Aug 2019 YYZ-LGA-DCA (Republic as American Eagle)
18th Aug 2019 JFK-LHR-FRA (BA)
25th Aug 2019 FRA-DIA-KUL (QR)
01st Sep 2019 KUL-HKG-PER (Cathay Dragon & CX)
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QF, BA and QR don’t help with the carrier charge total. If you click on the breakdown where it gives you this total, you might be able to work out what is what. It’s not toooo bad for a trip like that in J!
 
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