<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Darren:
I want to just make sure that my information is correct for the Oneworld based mileage award. If one were to fly from Dallas to Capetown with *no* stopovers along the way, and flew something like DFW-MIA-MAD-JNB-CPT (to satisfy the three carrier rule), my understanding is that it would be calculated as DFW-JNB, rather than point to point. Is this correct?</font>
Oneworld is very coy about describing this (perhaps for good reason), but I'm aware of the following rule which seems to substantiate that the mileage is calculated without consideration of the intermediate routing. This is in the QF plan at
http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/program/terms and says:
10.4.4 The following conditions govern the redemption of Points for Qantas Flight Awards:
(a) No more than one departure from the country or city of origin and/or residence.
(b) Failure to board the first booked sector of an Award itinerary (no-show) will result in the recalculation of Points required for the entire itinerary. The point of origin will default to the first port where travel actually commenced and any additional Points required will be debited from the Member's Account.
I suppose this is to prevent someone from booking DFW-ANC-MIA-LHR using the DFW-LHR mileage and actually flying ANC-LHR. Presumably all the Oneworld carriers have this rule for the Oneworld awards.