Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[ozflier]

Departing from HKG will attract lower taxes normally then departing from AUS, This may help offset the cost of the return ticket to HKG for the start and end of your journey

Interesting , are there any other cities with similar reduced taxes if started there - eg AKL, MNL , New Caledonia.

 

[madrooster]

Interesting , are there any other cities with similar reduced taxes if started there - eg AKL, MNL , New Caledonia.

Anywhere in Brazil.

 

[rock86]

MNL is cheaper then departing HKG

 

[Saurs82]

Departing from HKG will attract lower taxes normally then departing from AUS, This may help offset the cost of the return ticket to HKG for the start and end of your journey

I cant seem to get the miles under 35k! I'm 10-500 miles over no matter how I try to work it! Back to the drawing board

 

[geoffshaw]

I cant seem to get the miles under 35k! I'm 10-500 miles over no matter how I try to work it! Back to the drawing board

Is this what you are trying to do still?

Adl - Johannesburg
Johannesburg - hongkong
(separate return Adl-hK flight)
hong kong - paris
rome - Adelaide

ADL-SYD-JNB-DOH-HKG-HEL-CDG-FCO-DOH-ADL is 31634mi according to GC Map.

You can even do FCO-LHR-SIN-MEL-ADL and it's just under 34000mi.

 

[Ken1]

Late in June I will be trying to book J 280K OW award flights for travel commencing in June 2019, initially flying from SYD to LHR. In the past I've been able to find J flights by being ready 353 days out for QF, 360 days for CX, 354 days for BA etc but doing dummy bookings lately I'm not seeing much availability as a Bronze QFF member. I realise that QF haven't released much for Bronze members for a few years now but a year or two back I would see BA and CX flights released. However BA and CX don't seem to be releasing as many J award flights as previously. I've also tried looking at the BAEC website at 11am Sydney time (10am after daylight savings time finishes) in case they show something not showing on the QF website but still nothing. I will also check other airlines like JL and realise I may have to be creative with routings. I see that CX often show availability for SYD-HKG and HKG-LHR but not SYD-LHR so will probably have to stay in HKG over 24 hours.

I'd like to set up an Excel spreadsheet so I can enter the date I want to fly and have columns for the different airlines so it would show the date for 360 days out (CX), 353 (QF), 330 (AA, JL) etc. I know how to do basic Excel sheets but don't know how to do this. I've done Google searches and can find how to write a formula to tell you the number of days between two dates but can't find one where I can enter a date and have it tell me the date say 353 days earlier. If anyone with a good knowledge of Excel knows how to write a formula that would do this it would be much appreciated and very helpful if you could share it.

 

[Saurs82]

Is this what you are trying to do still?

Adl - Johannesburg
Johannesburg - hongkong
(separate return Adl-hK flight)
hong kong - paris
rome - Adelaide

ADL-SYD-JNB-DOH-HKG-HEL-CDG-FCO-DOH-ADL is 31634mi according to GC Map.

You can even do FCO-LHR-SIN-MEL-ADL and it's just under 34000mi.

No was trying adl-jnb-hkg (also tried sinapore)-LHR-JFK/MCO-LHR/FCO-ADL

 

[flychrisfly]

I'd like to set up an Excel spreadsheet so I can enter the date I want to fly and have columns for the different airlines so it would show the date for 360 days out (CX), 353 (QF), 330 (AA, JL) etc. I know how to do basic Excel sheets but don't know how to do this. I've done Google searches and can find how to write a formula to tell you the number of days between two dates but can't find one where I can enter a date and have it tell me the date say 353 days earlier. If anyone with a good knowledge of Excel knows how to write a formula that would do this it would be much appreciated and very helpful if you could share it.

You simply add the number of days to the date then format the answer as a date.

 

[geoffshaw]

No was trying adl-jnb-hkg (also tried sinapore)-LHR-JFK/MCO-LHR/FCO-ADL

If you do your separate ticket to Doha instead of Hong Kong you can manage it, I can't see any other way to fit everything in.

 

[Ken1]

You simply add the number of days to the date then format the answer as a date.

Thanks flychrisfly. I didn't realise it would be so easy - I've just finished setting up a spreadsheet.

 

[jeza]

Jeza, I think there are two main issues you'll need to consider:
- Departing starting country twice
- 12 month ticket validity

For the first, you can get creative and depart from countries nearby on first or second part of trip and just purchase separate connecting flights.
For the second make sure you understand when inventory is released and when you need to be making the changes to your itinerary.

I tried a few different places like Hong Kong, Singapore & New Zealand to start the trip but once I hit Europe or North America it always seemed to say I was backtracking if I tried to get Oz from that point & then carry on to whichever of Europe or North America I hadn't visited. Maybe I have to start in South America or Africa to do that?

So the intention was to get a separate reward ticket for the return to Oz & back to rejoin the trip in the 2nd part of the 12 months. If I'm going to do that then I'm wondering if I'm just better off going the less complicated way of just doing 2 completely separate trips & not a Oneworld RTW.

 

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

I tried a few different places like Hong Kong, Singapore & New Zealand to start the trip but once I hit Europe or North America it always seemed to say I was backtracking if I tried to get Oz from that point & then carry on to whichever of Europe or North America I hadn't visited. Maybe I have to start in South America or Africa to do that?

So the intention was to get a separate reward ticket for the return to Oz & back to rejoin the trip in the 2nd part of the 12 months. If I'm going to do that then I'm wondering if I'm just better off going the less complicated way of just doing 2 completely separate trips & not a Oneworld RTW.

Jeza, from your comment, it looks like you might have gone down the wrong track...
You may be confusing the Round The World itinerary with the OneWorld Classic Award.
I think you want the 2nd of these; it allows ‘back-tracking’.
Happy planning...

 

[cjd600]

Jeza, from your comment, it looks like you might have gone down the wrong track...
You may be confusing the Round The World itinerary with the OneWorld Classic Award.
I think you want the 2nd of these; it allows ‘back-tracking’.
Happy planning...

Jeza, to be clear, if this is the case, you need to be booking/searching via multi-stop, not RTW....

 

[jeza]

Thanks TOOJ & cjd600 I'm trying to have a bit of play now with the Multi-City but just getting Gateway Timeouts

 

[Jacques Vert]

Jeza,

Look for individual or "two flight sectors" at a time and then link them/dates,etc together (on paper, rather than the website). Then check the mileage on Great Circle Mapper

If you are under 35,000 miles you are OK (provided you meet all the other rules).

 

[mkane]

Question ....before I add 3 extra sectors to my existing 2 person booking to then make it OTW for 280K points....am I up for 15000 points each person for the changes or a lesser amount?

 

[jewles]

Question ....before I add 3 extra sectors to my existing 2 person booking to then make it OTW for 280K points....am I up for 15000 points each person for the changes or a lesser amount?

If you do it all in one phone call it will only be 5000 points each, it is definitely best to make as many changes as you can in one go.

 

[mkane]

If you do it all in one phone call it will only be 5000 points each, it is definitely best to make as many changes as you can in one go.

Great thanks for that...much appreciated

 

[Saurs82]

If you do your separate ticket to Doha instead of Hong Kong you can manage it, I can't see any other way to fit everything in.

Yes was trying to avoid doing that as flights to asia are cheaper.
Do BA fly between cape town and Johannesburg?

 

[Daver6]

Yes was trying to avoid doing that as flights to asia are cheaper.
Do BA fly between cape town and Johannesburg?

They sure do.