casanovawa
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I am planning to do a RTW itinerary in April for about 3 months, I have approx 91k QFF now with the ability to make it up to 140k within a couple of months. I had originally just been planning to use my points to get a 64k QFF point flight from Perth to Chicago (road trip N.A. via Canada to Wash DC) purchase ticket to Mex City, then award flight ~28k point QFF down to Lima, LAN pass around about 4 destinations in South America and then LAN/Iberia/BA up to Berlin ~50k QFF points and pay for the rest flying airlines including Aeroflot to get from Moscow to Beijing... all up i was looking at about A$2700-2900 for it all.
Reading here last night i found out about the OW 140k RTW fare which was great news and I would like to do somethign with it, it obviously won't cover all my needs as i have about 17-20 stops planned, so I am open to suggestions as to what is the best, most cost cost effective way to use it? I also don't know how to calculate at what point i will pass 35k miles/kms???
Anyway I will post places i plan to visit and then say how maybe i think it would be best to use it and then if you agree or have alterations/suggestions that would be great.
Ok total itinerary I would like to do = Perth - Chicago - road trip to Wash DC - Mexico City - Lima - Cuzco - road trip to La Paz - Santiago - B.A. - Rio de - Berlin - Copenhagen - Oslo - Stockholm - Helsinki - St Petersburg - Moscow - Beijing - Tokyo - Perth
Because of the 5 stop limitation (I assume there is no way i could buy anymore) i am thinking for the OW award RTW:
Perth to Chicago (Stop 1) (is Perth - Melb - LAX - ORD considered 3 flight segments from 16 allowed?)
Wash DC - Mex City (Stop 2) (2 segs?)
Mex City - Lima (Stop 3) (1 direct seg?)
Buy a LAN or OW South American Airpass and get about 5 flights for hopefully less than A$800-1000
Rio - Berlin (Stop 4) (2 segs?)
Buy a series of cheap tickets on Easyjet/SAS/S7 to do Berlin - Cope - Oslo - Stock - St Pet - Moscow (~A$500)
Moscow - Beijing (Stop 5) (not sure how many segs via London via BA or a China airline direct?)
Make own way Beijing - Tokyo or Osaka (A$250)
Tokyo - Perth (Return to Base) (1 seg)
Using that plan i think i have the OW award covering the most costly legs, have cheap S.A airpass and cheap scandinavian tickets cover the cheaper areas, have 5 stops as per restrictions and only about 11 segments from 16 if i am understanding how they calculate segments correctly or will the 3 ground segments i'm making my own way on take this up to close to 16??? (maybe i might chuck a few other flights in if i have spare) the other thing is, like i said, i don't quite know how to calculate if the air and ground segments take this over 35,000 miles/km limit.
Anyway, any thoughts appreciated as to how to work this best, gain the most benefits, what you would do....
Regards
Mark
Reading here last night i found out about the OW 140k RTW fare which was great news and I would like to do somethign with it, it obviously won't cover all my needs as i have about 17-20 stops planned, so I am open to suggestions as to what is the best, most cost cost effective way to use it? I also don't know how to calculate at what point i will pass 35k miles/kms???
Anyway I will post places i plan to visit and then say how maybe i think it would be best to use it and then if you agree or have alterations/suggestions that would be great.
Ok total itinerary I would like to do = Perth - Chicago - road trip to Wash DC - Mexico City - Lima - Cuzco - road trip to La Paz - Santiago - B.A. - Rio de - Berlin - Copenhagen - Oslo - Stockholm - Helsinki - St Petersburg - Moscow - Beijing - Tokyo - Perth
Because of the 5 stop limitation (I assume there is no way i could buy anymore) i am thinking for the OW award RTW:
Perth to Chicago (Stop 1) (is Perth - Melb - LAX - ORD considered 3 flight segments from 16 allowed?)
Wash DC - Mex City (Stop 2) (2 segs?)
Mex City - Lima (Stop 3) (1 direct seg?)
Buy a LAN or OW South American Airpass and get about 5 flights for hopefully less than A$800-1000
Rio - Berlin (Stop 4) (2 segs?)
Buy a series of cheap tickets on Easyjet/SAS/S7 to do Berlin - Cope - Oslo - Stock - St Pet - Moscow (~A$500)
Moscow - Beijing (Stop 5) (not sure how many segs via London via BA or a China airline direct?)
Make own way Beijing - Tokyo or Osaka (A$250)
Tokyo - Perth (Return to Base) (1 seg)
Using that plan i think i have the OW award covering the most costly legs, have cheap S.A airpass and cheap scandinavian tickets cover the cheaper areas, have 5 stops as per restrictions and only about 11 segments from 16 if i am understanding how they calculate segments correctly or will the 3 ground segments i'm making my own way on take this up to close to 16??? (maybe i might chuck a few other flights in if i have spare) the other thing is, like i said, i don't quite know how to calculate if the air and ground segments take this over 35,000 miles/km limit.
Anyway, any thoughts appreciated as to how to work this best, gain the most benefits, what you would do....
Regards
Mark