Oneworld Award booking - help please

[manofham]

Hi

Currently trying to book a 140,000pt Oneworld Award flight around the world.

Can anyone tell me why the following when booked online goes above 140,000pts?

* Auckland-Sydney-Frankfurt-Helsinki-Stockholm (1st stopover, coughulative total = 4 segments)
* Stockholm-Heathrow-Madrid-Cairo (2nd SO, CT = 7 segments)
* Cairo-Madrid (3rd SO, CT = 8 segments)
* Madrid-Heathrow-New York (4th SO, CT = 10 segments)
* By land to Panama City, Panama (CT = 11 segments)
* Panama City-Miami-Los Angeles-Auckland (CT = 14 segments)

To me this seems to fit into the rules for a OW Award. Less than 17 segments, only 4 stopovers, not transferring through a city more than twice, Qantas + 2 OW partners, etc.

The only possible issues I can think of are:
(1) Mileage. Point to point for each stopover is less than 35,000 miles. Or do they add up each segment?
(2) The Auckland to Stockholm I had to book through the system as three separate flights as it didn't show up if searching as one flight (strange routing). Maybe the system regards each of these as a stopover?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Hamish

 

[serfty]

(1)Great Circle Mapper comes in at 34411 (The "open Jaw" NYC-PTY is Included) so that's OK

(2)I believe the open jaw creates a "stopover" so there's now 6 which is a no-no.

It's the coughulative distance of the segments. So PTY-MIA-LAX-AKL is calculated as ~9998 miles.

 

[manofham]

Thanks for the help. I just got off the phone with Qantas and the route does qualify for a Oneworld Award, it's just that I can't book it off the system as the routing is too complicated for it to figure out (the system does think that Frankfurt & Sydney are stopovers.

To clarify - is the mileage calculated by adding up each segment or just start to destination. E.g .Would Panama City to Auckland Flight mileage be the distance in a straight line from PC to Auck... or the coughulative distance of each of the three flights to get from PC to Auck? Thanks

 

[NM]

To clarify - is the mileage calculated by adding up each segment or just start to destination. E.g .Would Panama City to Auckland Flight mileage be the distance in a straight line from PC to Auck... or the coughulative distance of each of the three flights to get from PC to Auck? Thanks

The mileage is the sum of the distance of each flight as noted on the ticket.