Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[serfty]

As per the rules you quoted, the distance between the last arrival port and the first segment's origin port must be included in the total distance calculation.

There is no need to specifically book a segment to the origin port.

Or, to put it another way, the rule 14.4.3 would otherwise have no relevance.

@Kangol, In thinking about this, my habit has been to endeavour to book and get ticketed the initial flights (ensuring two oneworld carriers other than Qantas) online.

This takes such anomolous human interpretation out of the initial equation.

 

[Kangol]

@Kangol, In thinking about this, my habit has been to endeavour to book and get ticketed the initial flights (ensuring two oneworld carriers other than Qantas) online.

This takes such anomolous human interpretation out of the initial equation.

The question is not about distance.
I think I figured out what the phone agent meant, who in hindsight was doing a good deed.
Currently, the flown distance mileage sum is in zone 8.
By adding the return to origin segment mileage, it brings it up to zone 10.
Agent was helpful in saying to keep it as point to point pricing, which is less than OWA zone 8 (in F).
This saves me paying now: 1) the mileage difference between point to point and zone 8 pricing, plus 2) the difference between zone 8 and 10.
ie. ~115k points.
Even though the plan is to eventually get to high zone 10 mileage, nevertheless this was the right call.
I can't remember the details of the order of adding the flights for my last OWA, but I suspect by the time I got the 2 OW airlines in, it was in zone 10 already.

 

[serfty]

The question is not about distance.
I think I figured out what the phone agent meant, who in hindsight was doing a good deed.
Currently, the flown distance mileage sum is in zone 8.
By adding the return to origin segment mileage, it brings it up to zone 10.
Agent was helpful in saying to keep it as point to point pricing, which is less than OWA zone 8 (in F).
This saves me paying now: 1) the mileage difference between point to point and zone 8 pricing, plus 2) the difference between zone 8 and 10.
ie. ~115k points.
Even though the plan is to eventually get to high zone 10 mileage, nevertheless this was the right call.
I can't remember the details of the order of adding the flights for my last OWA, but I suspect by the time I got the 2 OW airlines in, it was in zone 10 already.

Yes it should be automatic to reprice as a oneworld award and good luck.

Personally I prefer the full amount to be deducted on booking and then to flesh out/extend segments as appropriate. It is easier to reconcile.

Yes, my trust level is low.

For a booking made last year I added some JL segments to it. Everything seemed fine, even a refund of some of the +++ but Imagine my shock to have over 100K additional points taken from my account rather than 5K. It seems the travel had been split into two tickets, each charged separately - there was no advice on the call this would happen. I called back and after some time, had all changes reversed and the points refunded. I regrouped and a day or two later tried again; this time I moved all but the necessary 5K points out of my account beforehand.

It is not that such issues are not surmountable, they can be; it is the time taken to get them fixed that is the problem.