Planning Holiday for 2019 on points

[RadLegend]

Hi Guys,

First time poster so please excuse if I have posted in the wrong section.

My wife and 2 kids are planning to live in South Korea next year. I will be joining them for about 3 to 6 months and use up some of my long service leave.
I was thinking it would be good to do some traveling at the same time and use up some of the points I have collected from the advice of may people on this forum.
I currently have approximately 370,000 QFF and 300,000 velocity points.
Was not sure if I could use the 280,000QFF points for a round the world trip for my wife and I from South Korea?
If not any other ideas?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

 

[Deleted member]

I suppose the same old questions arise, what class do you want to travel in? Do you have any meaningful status with QF or VA? Which of the one world carriers offers the best va
He and options for you.
The general consensus by many here is that you make your life simpler by being as far up the status tree as possible. It will make a big difference to getting seats released etc. Likewise for upgrades.
Good luck with your plans.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

deleted text. didn’t see the OP was looking for RTW.

 

[Mattg]

You can absolutely use 280,000 Qantas points to book a round-the-world trip departing from South Korea. There's no requirement that it has to start in Australia. Those points would get you business class for 1 passenger or economy for 2 passengers.

Having said that, you might want to investigate the option of positioning to/from Hong Kong and starting the RTW trip from there. I suspect the taxes would be lower, this way.

 

[RadLegend]

Thanks for the advice guys. I don't have any special status with QF or VA. When and how should I make the booking with my points for RTW? Sorry I'm a bit new to this.
Thinking to start the trip in Incheon, South Korea but willing to look at the Hong Kong option as suggested by Mattg.

Also any suggestions on a RTW trip starting in these countries?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Also any suggestions on a RTW trip starting in these countries?

Where do you want to go? Europe and USA can both be included in the trip.

 

[RadLegend]

The key locations we would like to travel to are Canada, Europe and USA.

 

[Mattg]

The key locations we would like to travel to are Canada, Europe and USA.

Plenty of options. For example:
ICN-NRT-YVR flying JL (stopover in Vancvouer)
YVR-JFK flying CX (stopover in New York)
JFK-LHR flying BA or AA (surface sector from London to Paris)
CDG-HKG-ICN flying CX

This is a very basic itinerary - you could throw in all sorts of other stops if you wanted to. Just as long as you have a maximum of 5 stopovers and don't travel more than 35,000 miles in total.

 

[RadLegend]

Hi thanks for the suggestion. Are there any website which help you plan your trip?
Also what is considered a stop over.
Again apologies I have never planned a RTW trip before.

 

[Mattg]

Hi thanks for the suggestion. Are there any website which help you plan your trip?
Also what is considered a stop over.
Again apologies I have never planned a RTW trip before.

This article is a good starting point: How to fly around the world using the Qantas Oneworld Award

A stopover is anything over 24 hours. Otherwise it only counts as a "transit" and isn't counted. You can have up to 16 flights in total.

 

[RadLegend]

Mattg,

Thanks for the information. It is greatly appreciated. From reading though the threads looks like you can book online and you need to book about a year in advance as the seats go quickly.
I was thinking to travel for about 1 -2 months. Can you book the reward flights separately or do you need to book them all together?
I just don't want to miss out on seats.

 

[Mattg]

Mattg,

Thanks for the information. It is greatly appreciated. From reading though the threads looks like you can book online and you need to book about a year in advance as the seats go quickly.
I was thinking to travel for about 1 -2 months. Can you book the reward flights separately or do you need to book them all together?
I just don't want to miss out on seats.

You can book one leg at a time (paying a 5,000 point change fee every time you add a flight), but honestly it's probably not necessary. The most difficult flights to get award seats on are in & out of Australia. As you'd be starting in Korea, availability should probably be alright.

 

[RadLegend]

So how fair out should I make the booking? Would 6 months be ok?

 

[Mattg]

So how fair out should I make the booking? Would 6 months be ok?

I'd aim to book about 11 months out from the date of the last flight, ideally.

 

[JohnM]

You really need to be reading this thread: Wiki - "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

 

[RadLegend]

Hi guys.
Been trying to book my flights though the Qantas multi stop site. Some major issues I have noticed that there seems to be some issue booking JAL flights out of Seoul and I have too many stopovers.
Would the only way be to call qantas to make my booking?

 

[RadLegend]

Also another quick question I notice the flight for JAL leaving Seoul leaves from Gimpo airport but my returning flight comes into Inchoen Airport.
Any issues with the RTW if you return to the same city but to a different airport?