I just made a J OWA booking.
Congratulations! It's a task that once achieved, you feel like celebrating. Yours is a very full use of the miles, well done.
I managed to piece together my own, through being flexible, doing a heck of a lot of searching and researching and just a bit of fluke that a QF award became available at the right time. Mine turned out to be a RTW itinerary as well, with 7 sectors and 3 stopovers but lucked out with one connection being less than 24hrs but allowing me an overnight in a hotel. Mine only used 28,000 miles but it suited, was good value and I certainly didn't want to poke the bear by adding on future flights to max the distance allowed. Enough warnings on here and the experience of others (thanks people) are invaluable and armed with knowledge, ease some of the anxiety when having to interact with call centres.
One tip I could offer is not to sweat the Australian domestic connections. Sometimes it may be just less problematic to buy a flight from, say, SYD to MEL to start/finish an itinerary and later call up to link the bookings if both PNR's are with QF.
This is not an easy process.
This week's understatement [USER=60981]@2infinity[/USER].
Maybe just point to point return trips for the future
The whole process of comparing flight availability and value are part of the time it takes. Always compare.
