You folks are indeed brilliant. Excuse the confusion my question may have created. Can someone confirm that Air Pacific can indeed by utilized to backtrack in the South Pacific. My agent suggested that was not permitted. All else being equal, if I could manage to include Samoa and Fiji without incurring additional cost, that would be a small victory in itself. The reference to credit cards and Diner's club was about conflict between splitting airmiles between Star Alliance and OneWorld.

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Family Man