Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[TwistedEL]

Given Fiji airways has officially entered OW, and they still cannot be used for a OWA, suggests there might be a bit of a lag between the airline joining and when you’ll be able to secure their seats for the purposes of points capping.

Oman Air, Fiji, Jetstar and emirates (plus others) are all points partners. You can select them as part of your multi-city award, but they won’t cap the points. They’re not eligible for OWA (either outright or ‘not at the moment’)

It’s a good question as to whether someone like Fiji or Oman would reprice at a later point. We haven’t really had any example of late to draw on.

Rather than Oman via MCT you could potentially look at Royal Jordanian.

constructing your itinerary without a points cap means the flights you have pencilled in would already come to 624k per person.

The call centre agent I spoke to yesterday advised that FJ won't be available for points capping until the end of June.

 

[Mabel]

Thanks for everyone's help. I have just booked the following for Feb/Mar/Apr 2026.
I booked the first 2 legs online and then booked the rest over 2 phone calls.
I checked in Royal Jordanian that I have a 081- E-ticket number so all good.
5 stops. Just under 33,000 miles.
Taxes are just over $2k each, which is pretty high I think?, but I'm happy as its my first time booking a OWA.

 

[Magicturtle8]

Hello, I have a question on RTW with qantas points. I planned a trim following the article by pointhacks that was posted this year. However, after posting the plan onto rtw.oneworld website, it says that it is invalid 'Your trip must include a trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific crossing and you may cross each ocean only once. Please select a different destination.'.

As I could not find this anywhere in the article, is it safe to assume that the article is missing this rule? My plan was:
SYD - KL - Hong Kong - Japan - Helsinki - Zurich - London - Taipei - Singapore - KL - SYD

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Hello, I have a question on RTW with qantas points. I planned a trim following the article by pointhacks that was posted this year. However, after posting the plan onto rtw.oneworld website, it says that it is invalid 'Your trip must include a trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific crossing and you may cross each ocean only once. Please select a different destination.'.

As I could not find this anywhere in the article, is it safe to assume that the article is missing this rule? My plan was:
SYD - KL - Hong Kong - Japan - Helsinki - Zurich - London - Taipei - Singapore - KL - SYD

Different products!

A ‘round the world’ fare - paid with $$ - comes with routing conditions.

A qantas oneworld award on points does not have the same conditions.

You can’t plug a qantas award itinerary into the paid $$ website.

 

[BriarFlyer]

@Magicturtle8 Have another look at the Point Hacks article -- or the AFF version which includes a section on how to book. Not on the Oneworld website, but by using the Qantas multi-city tool.