Miles & More (Lufthansa, Austrian, Swiss, and other partners) - Round-the-world flight award max mileage?

Intend to burn my Miles & More miles on a round-the-world flight award.

In the programme the following conditions apply:

A Round the World Flight Award ticket includes one Atlantic and one Pacific crossing.
A maximum of ten flight segments (maximum of nine connecting flights) is allowed.
There must be an interval of at least ten days between the start of the first intercontinental flight and the start of the last intercontinental flight.
A Round the World Flight Award ticket remains valid for twelve months once issued.
A maximum of seven stopovers is allowed.


Question is what itinerary of ten flight segments on Miles & More partner' airlines results in the largest distance flown? Any advice welcome.

Question is what itinerary of ten flight segments on Miles & More partner' airlines results in the largest distance flown? Any advice welcome.

AFAIK there is no mileage restriction on the RTW award ticket, but the maximum of 10 segments will make sure your routing won´t be too exotic.
The only advantage I can see is that you´d be able to visit all 6 continents, e.g. FRA-JNB-EZE-YYZ-YVR-SYD-AKL-SIN-HKG-FRA (which should exceed 40k miles)

Anyhow in most cases I wouldn´t consider it to be a terribly good deal, especially if you want to include cities that aren´t international hubs.

You may also consider buying a Three Region award (160k) and another two region award (from 90k) in Business Class.

Or, if leaving from Europe get creative and book something like
Europe - Hawaii (160k miles in C)
Hawaii - SE Asia (60k miles in C)
Hawaii - Australia/Oceania (60k miles in C)

Total 280k miles for all C
Every award trip gets you to the destination and since they are crossing zone borders you are allowed one stopover for each trip.
Since the total number of allowed flights is higher you should have better chances getting on decent flights.

Contrary to the paid RTW tickets there seems to be no restriction how often you can cross between Europe/Africa and Asia/Australia.
It would be interesting to see if a routing like this would be allowed:

FRA-LAX-BKK-SYD-SIN-LHR-BKK-ZRH-NRT-FRA

Contrary to the paid RTW tickets there seems to be no restriction how often you can cross between Europe/Africa and Asia/Australia.
It would be interesting to see if a routing like this would be allowed:

FRA-LAX-BKK-SYD-SIN-LHR-BKK-ZRH-NRT-FRA

Are you sure about this?
If I´m not totally mistaken backtracking between regions is not allowed on any award (whereas backtracking within a region is allowed), e.g. when I did some research on RTWs I was told by several agents that I couldn´t fly LON-NYC-BDA-YYZ because flying to BDA would involve backtracking (never mind the fact that there are no flights from BDA to Europe on any *A carrier so it´s literally impossible to include most Carribean places on a RTW or 3+ regions award)

If backtracking were allowed you could do something like

LAX-SIN-AKL-LHR-AKL-LHR-AKL-LHR-AKL-LHR-LAX

with the AKL-LHR vv being the direct flight via HKG.

I don't know if it's the most you can do, but I would guess this comes pretty close to maxing it out:

http://gc.kls2.com/cgi-bin/gc?PATH=fra-cpt-sin-nrt-akl-syd-yvr-lax-yyz-eze-fra%0D%0A&RANGE=&PATH-COLOR=red&PATH-UNITS=mi&PATH-MINIMUM=&SPEED-GROUND=&SPEED-UNITS=kts&RANGE-STYLE=best&RANGE-COLOR=navy&MAP-STYLE=

It's 45,671 miles.

The AKL-SYD backtrack is allowed (or at least it used to be).

Though I have to say finding availability on all of these flights is going to be tough!

You may also consider buying a Three Region award (160k) and another two region award (from 90k) in Business Class.

Or, if leaving from Europe get creative and book something like
Europe - Hawaii (160k miles in C)
Hawaii - SE Asia (60k miles in C)
Hawaii - Australia/Oceania (60k miles in C)

Total 280k miles for all C
Every award trip gets you to the destination and since they are crossing zone borders you are allowed one stopover for each trip.
Since the total number of allowed flights is higher you should have better chances getting on decent flights.

A lot of the USA-Hawaii flights are F/Y config which will book into Y.

A lot of the USA-Hawaii flights are F/Y config which will book into Y.Really? I thought CRTW tickets book into A on two class planes within the US/North America.

Really? I thought CRTW tickets book into A on two class planes within the US/North America.

There were a few report here on this board where LH agents told people that a new rule was in place for flights to Hawaii.
Would be great of course if those reports turned out to be misinformed agents and not really a new enhancement rule.