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Some more newbie questions, this time about our USA to Chile sector in November: Would you choose LAX-xMIA-SCL or SFO-xDFW-SCL (both with AA)? I've been warned about trying to get domestic flights from LAX. In either of the above scenarios, would we clear immigration/customs on departure at...

Somewhere around 4-5 August this year.

Yeah that's what I'm doing in the multi-city tool, but they never appear in the results.

I could use some advice on the first leg of our OWA booking - what are the best flights to do MEL-LHR in Economy? Option 1: QF9 MEL-xPER-LHR on the 787. Advantages are the new plane, new IFE, decent legroom (I'm 189cm). Disadvantages are the narrower seat and the 17hr flight which could be hell...

Got those the wrong way around - LA603 is LAX-SCL and LA1 is SCL-PNT. I've done some more digging into LATAM award availability, specifically on LA805 (SCL-MEL) as a test case. Interestingly I've found award availability in Economy on pretty much every day the flight occurs, but only up until...

I've been sitting on our OWA plan for a few months waiting for LATAM flights to become available in Dec 2019 - initially they hadn't reached their release window, but now they have and I'm still not seeing any award availability via the Qantas multi-city tool. I'm a Gold FF and am looking for...

Having done some more research, our trip plan is looking as follows: MEL-PER-LHR (QF) LHR-MAD (Surface sector) MAD-JFK-YYZ (IB, AA) YYZ-ORD-YYC (AA) YYC-LAX (Surface sector) LAX-SCL-PNT (LAN) PNT-SCL-MEL (LAN) My only issue at this point is that PNT (Puerto Natales) doesn't exist in the Qantas...

Question: Are the US domestic operators able to be used as part of the OWA? E.g. JFK-YYZ (AA operated by Envoy Air). It's listed on the OW search engine here: oneworld Online Timetable

I've just ticked over the required 280k points required to do it in Economy, and seeing as we're planning to start the trip in August I think we'll need to go ahead and lock it in sooner rather than later. By August I'll probably have just enough to do it in J, but by that stage it'll be too...

I was fairly sure that was the case. Our issue is that while I'd like to utilise the remaining stopover, we're already right up against the miles limit (~34,000), and adding any further sectors (e.g. even a short hop like EDI-KEF) takes us over the limit.

The last time I checked there were plenty of award seats available on QF9 around the dates we were looking. Note that we're only going in Economy, not Business.

I'm pretty sure it's 4 stopovers (5 if the flight home counts as one)? MEL-PER-LHR (QF) #1 - London, UK & Europe LHR-MAD (Surface sector encompassing UK, Iceland, Scandinavia, Greece, Italy, France and Spain) MAD-JFK-YYZ (IB, AA) or MAD-LHR-YYZ (BA) #2 - Toronto & NE USA YYZ-YVR #3 - Vancouver...

Interesting, maybe it's a dates issue. Thanks for checking. We've canned the idea of doing Greece first up, so our draft itinerary is looking a bit different: MEL-PER-LHR (QF) LHR-MAD (Surface sector encompassing UK, Iceland, Scandinavia, Greece, Italy, France and Spain) MAD-JFK-YYZ (IB, AA) or...

Yeah that shows the same two options I posted earlier. Looks like a very useful tool though - thanks for sharing!

Understood, thanks for clarifying. So if I want to get from MEL-ATH as part of my OWA, it looks like my only other options are: MEL-LHR-ATH (QF, BA), or MEL-DOH-ATH (QR) Except neither of these show on the Qantas multi-city tool - does that mean I'll have to use the call center to include them...

Not even if it's a QF flight? The T&C's above imply that you can't even access Classic Rewards seats on a code-share flight, but when I searched on the Qantas site it shows Classic Rewards availability for that example flight (QF8409)?

Quick question about the following T&Cs: "Classic Flight Rewards are not available on Codeshare Flights unless otherwise specified by Qantas Loyalty. Classic Flight Rewards must be booked using the airline code (eg QF for Qantas) of the Operating Carrier unless otherwise specified by Qantas...

How would that work with the OWA requirement to start/end at the same port? And I'd assume that would negate most of the value of doing the OWA on points (the direct flights purchased on points separately would be a significant points hit).

Question - if I book the overall OWA trip in Economy, am I able to use points to upgrade to Business on the Qantas flights at either end of the trip?

What's the limitation?