Rules concerning booking flights from one of my five authorised stopovers

[Graeme M]

I am planning a rewards trip round the world. I am aware I can have 5 stopovers of more than 24 hours. Do the rules permit me to also book flights from one of my five stopovers to other locations in where I will spend more than 24 hours?

 

[DejaBrew]

A very warm welcome aboard AFF @Graeme M

Assuming you're talking about a Oneworld RTW award, I'd recommend posting here for the best responses -:

Thread 'Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread'

Oct 30, 2006

Note that this is not exclusively a "Round The World" Award. While it can be so used, it can also be used for "Round Trips", "Circle" Trips or even "one-way trips" without actually going "Round The World".

Also note the following from the T&C review that comes up on Qantas.com if you have successfully selected flights and reach the Review "Check" page:

...
A oneworld® Reward contains:

• a Qantas flight and at least two other oneworld® carrier flights, or
• if there is no Qantas flight, two other oneworld® carrier flights.

...

Please keep that in mind...

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[serfty]

Welcome to AFF @Graeme M - presumably this is about a Qantas Classic oneworld award.

 

[Graeme M]

Welcome to AFF @Graeme M - presumably this is about a Qantas Classic oneworld award.

Yes it is.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I am planning a rewards trip round the world. I am aware I can have 5 stopovers of more than 24 hours. Do the rules permit me to also book flights from one of my five stopovers to other locations in where I will spend more than 24 hours?

You can fly from stopover 1 to stopover 2 (etc) on the award no issues. But i’m not sure that’s what you mean!

If you are saying you want to fly to other places from a stopover, in that case you would need to buy separate tickets. So if your stopover was London, and it was for 10 days, you can certainly buy as many other tickets as you want from London to anywhere else. You then return to London (or another place) and continue your award ticket to the next stopover.

 

[Graeme M]

You can fly from stopover 1 to stopover 2 (etc) on the award no issues. But i’m not sure that’s what you mean!

If you are saying you want to fly to other places from a stopover, in that case you would need to buy separate tickets. So if your stopover was London, and it was for 10 days, you can certainly buy as many other tickets as you want from London to anywhere else. You then return to London (or another place) and continue your award ticket to the next stopover.

So if I were to buy separate tickets I would have to do that 'outside' of the One World Classic Flight Reward booking that I make using points?

 

[pyffii]

yes

 

[serfty]

So if I were to buy separate tickets I would have to do that 'outside' of the One World Classic Flight Reward booking that I make using points?

Ok, see the thread link posted by @DejaBrew

You can have 5 stopovers in total but only one in any single port.

You can also have up to two transfers at a single port.

You can have a booking with a stopover and two transits at any one port.

For an international booking, a transit at a port is where the scheduled departure is not more than 24 hours after the scheduled arrival.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

So if I were to buy separate tickets I would have to do that 'outside' of the One World Classic Flight Reward booking that I make using points?

Correct. The OWA only caps if you meet the specific requirements. If you start adding more flights, you’ll no longer meet the requirements and the price will increase.

But there’s nothing in the rules against ‘nesting tickets’, which is essentially what you’ll be doing… ‘nesting’ one or more other tickets while on your main ticket just sits on the side.