Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[MEL_Traveller]

Hi ! Thank you for your quick response

Would you suggest that if I were to keep my same itinerary, my next step (given I want to return to Perth) can be anywhere in Europe to Perth?

And if I can’t find that I could do for example Europe to Asia anywhere and it would still fall within the rules?

I think realistically I could find a Europe to HK or Europe to KL flight

You can take any routing you want… via Africa (BA to JNB and Qantas to PER), via Colombo to Singapore then QF to PER, BA to China or Japan and then Cathay and/or Qantas to Perth. Just gotta find the availability! Not to forget AY’s connections to Asia.

You could connect from anywhere on europe with Iberia, British Airways or Finnair to London and onwards… or to any of the oneworld gateways in Europe (served by Sri Lankan or Qantas, such as Paris, or even JAL).

So Milan-Helsinki-London-home is perfectly fine.

As long as your layovers/transits are under 24 hours and you don’t exceed your 16 flights.

edited to correct spelling

 

[DC3]

So refund email came through about 2 hours ago ~30 hours after I cancelled, but logging into Amex I dont see any credit for the taxes/fees yet.

Patience, Grasdhopper

 

[madrooster]

The computer thinks AKL is Australia and thus the instant you "return to Australia (country if origin)" you can't add more sectors at all - for any classic rewards because it won't be able to price it. Thats not a OWA rule but just a general classic rewards rule.

For clarity, yes, there is a website bug where if you start in NZ, it seems to treat it as Australia as the country of origin which is obviously incorrect.

However, more generally, once you return to your country of origin, you can still add segments but they must be purely domestic.

So for example, PER-MEL-BNE-LAX-JFK-LHR-HKG-SIN-BNE-SYD-DRW-PER is fine. Similarly, cough-HND-LAX-JFK-LHR-HND-CTS-ITM-cough is fine.

In the case of NZ, in actual practice, you can't add any further segments as there's no QF domestic in NZ.