Hi,

I am a newbie looking at OneWorld Explorer and Global Explorer. We are BA Exec club members with about 100,000 miles to play with, but have previously only earned/redeemed on LHR-YYC flights so a Round-the-World ticket is a whole new ball game I would be grateful of any advice about!

Our potential routing is as follows: LHR-YYC; surface sector; YVR-LAX-NAN; NAN-HKG-DXB; DXB-LHR.

My questions are:
1) On the OneWorld Network map, Nadi/Fiji is shown with a blue dot as a city, with Codeshare flights from LAX and HKG. But when I try to plug this into the OneWorld Itinerary Planner to get a price, it doesn’t bring up NAN/Nadi/Fiji when I search, nor does it have a blue dot on the map. Is our above routing possible?

2) Is this routing more suited to OneWorld Explorer or Global Explorer?

3) I have read it is possible to start a RTW ticket in a country different from that we reside. Therefore is it possible to: buy/redeem single LHR-YYC flight. Travel YYC-YVR surface sector. Commence RTW ticket from YVR, right through to LHR at end of planned route. Then within 12 months of departing YVR, use RTW ticket to travel LHR-YYC on a separate trip I will then buy/redeem a YYV-LHR ticket back home.

I appreciate there are a number of questions there, thanks in advance for any advice!