1. I know that you can only use full oneworld member airlines. However, if the flight is showing as 'Operated by Fiji Airways' when looking at the multi-city search on Qantas Frequent Flyer site - does that mean is a code share and is ok?
2. Can I book the first 1-2 legs of the journey now and add the other legs as flights become available? I know that changes can be made for 5000 points per person - but I just wasnt sure if I had to book the entire journey first up or if you can partially book it.
1. Using FJ within your itinerary will mean that your total trip wont be capped under the Oneworld Award - the thresholds are :
132k pts for Economy
249k pts for Premium Economy
318k pts for Business
455k pts for First
2. Get as much as possible done in your booking online, as it WILL be a difficult task to get onto a consultant that can :
Firstly - See the award seats you can see online and want to add,
and depending on meeting the first condition
Secondly - Add the award seats to your booking
If you call up and get a consultant who says that you can't add award seats / they can't see any available reward flights on the dates you're looking at, despite award seats clearly showing online - end the call immediately and re-call back until you can get someone who can.
Example -
My existing awards booking had a leg on Jetstar economy (was the only option at the time of my initial booking) and I kept searching over a period of a few weeks / months to try to find something other than Jetstar. One day I finally saw some new (or cancelled) business reward seats on the day I wanted - so I called Qantas to attempt to take it.
It took me around 15-20 calls over a few days just to get someone who could see the QF business seats I wanted to add to my existing itinerary to replace my existing Jetstar economy seat.
In the end, I eventually got there and redeemed the QF business reward seat to replace the JQ economy one.
If the consultants you're getting are giving you no answers, don't take no for an answer - you just will have to persevere / callback and at times, make a bit of noise.