For the "preferred" stopovers mentioned you will have back-tracking on both alliances, but more on *A.
Simple itineraries as below (more complex options also available of course)
*A LHR-JNB-PER-AKL-SYD-AKL-SFO-LHR
OW LHR-JNB-SYD-AKL-LAX-SFO-LHR
Originally Posted by
Greg45
- If you stop over in Australia, NZ flies a regional product from several cities to New Zealand. If you choose Star Alliance for your trip, there are no domestic flights in Australia. Obviously, QF is the better choice for domestic Australia and also flies to New Zealand. In Australia and New Zealand there are a couple of regional and LCC carriers you should look at.
- NZ flies from AKL to the US (SFO, LAX and on to LHR) and Canada (YVR).
- There are a number of options from AKL, SYD or MEL to the US (UA, QF, NZ, DL)
- Other than the obvious choices to/from Australia and New Zealand, there is LAN from Santiago de Chile to AKL and Qantas from Johannesburg to Perth (?).
Hope this helps. Anyone who knows more, please add to or correct the above.
NZ PER-AKL is midhaul (767) - quite decent (I'd rate as quite a lot better than the equivalent on BA in both economy and business)
Trans-tasman NZ has more options than QF. Both have mix of shorthaul and longhaul a/c, and with QF also try to avoid Jetstar codeshare (A320) which is low cost carrier.
NZ also flies to HNL (767) and LAX-LHR (nice lounge in LAX).
QF flies JNB-SYD and SA flies JNB-PER. Each codeshare on the other but codeshare not available for RTW. Both flights can be hard to get on RTW.
QF flies SYD-EZE and this does connect with BA's EZE-LHR. LA flies SYD-AKL-SCL. Both these flights can be hard to get on RTW (or award) - check if the codeshare (LA on QF flight and vv) has availability if operating airline does not.
Both OW & *A have routing via Asia JNB-HKG-SYD on OW and JNB-SIN-SYD on *A. The OW option adds a continent = expensive. *A option adds mileage = expensive.