I finally have my first OneWorld Award ticket lined up. It only took three months to get everything lined up. I knew I was going to have to start early, but what an ordeal.

After calling several times and getting people who didn't know anything about these tickets I finally found a wonderful lady to help me out. We just kept on scheduling times for her to call me since I couldn't call AA and get her. If somehow we crossed paths she would either call back until we connected again or we would dset a new time by voicemail.

I was even told that this itinerary was now being used as a training example for new people to the international ticketing.

The challenges we ran into were some of the limits on the award, they are: 50,000 mile limit, max of one open jaw, max of twice through any one city. One of the big deals was that the only way to get to Papeete, Tahiti was to go to Santiago, Chile. I finally had to give up Tahiti. Darn.

So what is this crazy itinerary? SEA-DFW-MIA-LHR-NBO-overland-CPT-JNB-MAD-BCN-
CAI-LHR-BOM-BKK-HKG-SIN-DPS-DRW-CNS-ADL-MEL-HBA-SYD-CHC-AKL-EZE-SCL-IPC-SCL-
CCS-SJU-DFW-SEA.

Hear are the stops I'll be making. SEA-NBO-overland-CPT-BCN-CAI-BOM-BKK-HKG-
SIN-DPS-DRW-CNS-ADL-MEL-HBA-SYD-CHC-AKL-IPC-SCL-CCS-SJU-SEA.

I'll be taking a full year to do this with the first six months being the part up to BCN and the last 6 months covering the rest. Pretty insane, but what the heck.