round the world

hi gang, ok here is my situation, 2.5m pts points club plus for a few years low status AIM: would like to take my family RTW on points in business. questions: what is the best way to book ? is it worth a status run and becoming silver before booking? is it worth engaging a service to do it...

My partner and I are doing a month long RTW (oneworld award) itinerary in November. The trip starts in Sydney and the final flight is from JFK to SYD via AKL on QF4/QF142. We have an event in Auckland the day after we arrive back in Sydney so ideally we would just get off in AKL and skip the...

Not sure which forum this goes in sorry...looking for RTW in PE (or mostly PE) in January. not many stops. One on each continent would be fine. Trying to get to Oaxaca, Mexico in particular. I am Gold on SQ til October only, nothing else useful apart from a few Emirates points but wanting status...

I am planning a RTW trip booking using Classic Reward points. I want to start the booking process for next year in April. I plan to be away for 2 months. Can I book the first couple of segments and wait until the latter flights become available. Do I have to book all at once? Thanks,

Interested in the best RTW fares in BC from Perth or Sydney

Other then a one week trip to Singapore last September (which was booked prior to Qantas saying they were removing the booking requirement for last years status extension), I haven't been able to travel anywhere since my last holiday in late 2019. So I now have around 15 weeks of annual leave...

Hi brains trust I am trying to book what I would have thought was a pretty standard round the world itinerary for a business trip in June: SYD-LHR LHR-JFK SFO-SYD Qantas will do it at $22k (thanks very much) but the only other options I have found are with stupid routings (eg LHR-JFK leg is...

Can someone please help me ASAP, I'm not getting anywhere with Qantas overseas consultants. I have a RTW award booking that commences this Friday, and I've found out that the last flight QR900 has been removed from my booking. The latest e-ticket received 6 weeks ago shows all flights confirmed...

I am looking at booking a Star Alliance RTW reward trip using krisflyer points. I have a couple of questions: I'm hoping for the trip to be as follows. Sydney, Halifax, Dublin, Glasgow, London, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Paris, Singapore and Sydney (which includes some land legs). 1. If I want to...

Being QFF Gold and churning 6 cards a year I have been accustomed to flying business only for the last several years and with enough persistence i generally get the flights in after (SYD - BKK and back). With an upcoming family trip it took all my effort to navigate a business class around the...

Can anyone suggest a good way to research rtw fares? I am currently looking for rtw3 j with Europe as 2nd continent. Syd/lon/nyc/syd (example). Easy enough to put in multi-city but does not show some rtw fares that I believe are available such as with with LX, FY and OS. Later in the year I...

Booked very first round the world trip. BNE - SYD (J) - 13800 EY miles +$29.44 flying on Virgin Australia SYD - LAX (J) - 95000 delta miles + $176.6 flying on delta LAX - BNA (Y) - $454 cash flying on AA BNA - ZRH (Y) - 30000 UA miles +$16.86 flying on UA ZRH - ADL (J) - 85000 AA miles +...

My partner and I are trying to travel over Christmas to Europe using points, business class. What routes in and out of the country should I look at? I am struggling to find any availability for business period. I am happy to fly out of any city.

I've had ~22 months of paid Qantas Club membership 'parked' since 2010 when courtesy of a DONE4 I jumped from NB to WP in a couple of months (and, a couple of years of SG notwithstanding, have remained there). A couple of years ago, just prior to the pandemic, I achieved LTG. So the QC...

Starting my legwork on this already booked and paid 2023 RTW itinerary purchased from LH. I am currently QFF Gold and the first two legs make sense to go to QFF as that will requal me for the following membership year. My goal would be to achieve Star Alliance Gold status with miles credit...

Hi all, I'm currently planning our trip for two to Europe+Japan using oneworld classic-reward RTW (business) with the following itin below: Day 1-2 : – Flight [Melbourne > Sydney > London > Madrid] (Qantas + BA) – Departing Melbourne 13.00 – Arriving Madrid 11.05 Day 2-4 : – Explore...

RTW Swiss and United. Want to use points in Australia and south pacific. Virgin doesn't credit Swiss. Any thoughts on best FF programme to use ?

Hi Evryone, In your opinion/experience, was it easier to redeem the Star Alliance or the ONeWorld RTW award (J) tickets? I understand that I will have to call SIA for Star Alliance redemption, but what about One World? Can it be done online on QFF website?? Thanks!

Hi All..... Clarence here Starting up a thread of curiosity out there.... How many legs did you fly in your RTW booking and let's see who has flown the most legs and share any interesting stories from that trip? Kicking it off - Back in 2015, I flew for a holiday over 40 days RTW - 8 legs...

Hi there! Hoping to pick the brains of this community. Simply put - I have booked HND-SYD on JAL in PE as part of a OW RTW award (rest of the flights are in J / U class). I can see there are now J class seats available on NRT-MEL, so have been requesting to change to this flight. But QF keeps...