re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread
Ablecookie, with a 280K OW RTW award you can only make your first booking online - all subsequent additions or changes to flights can only be done over the phone. That first booking may involve multiple flights but I suspect you may think that it's OK to book multiple flights online as they are released (i.e. as separate bookings) with the intention of getting them combined into a single award booking later on but you can not do that. It's not possible to merge two or more bookings into a single award itinerary either by doing it yourself online or via the call centre.
Depending on which airlines you intend using (which determines when flights are released) it will probably be inevitable that you will need to stump up for some change fees. If you are confident that some sectors will have good availability you might be able to combine adding those flights by delaying until some later flights are released. This is not without risk though. Maybe post your proposed itinerary with details of dates and airlines etc. so we can comment specifically.
