Hi guys

After a couple of days of skull-sweat (and looking without success for OneWorld partner routemaps on the web) I finally refined my searches and found your forum. Knew you had to be out there somewhere :-)

I want to hit the six continent promo, and have been struggling with an itinary from HK - such as HKG-JNB-LHR-CCS-LAX-SYD-HK this seems to have too may overnight fares for my preferences.

I was interested to see that various people have discussed muli-airline awards (with a lot more stops, of course). Given the benefit of experience and hindsight, has anyone got a good itinary from HK including Sydney & London but optimising the travel time (biz class) and connections (CX rules seem to require a stopover, and I've seen two definitions: 24 hours and 'non-transit' (overnight?) Which way around is better? East-West or vice versa? Finally, is there a better way of bringing in S America and/or Africa? I was hoping that the Virgins or somewhere else in the Caribbean would work, but finding a gateway city where two OneWorld carriers meet is turning out tricky...

Thanks in advance

Neil