Originally Posted by
cmgalan
You will find it easier to determine what can and can't work if you peruse this
link. Once you know what has been confirmed to have worked, you just start to look at flight availability using one of the online tools. Read this
post to get started.
So long as you have a valid mini rtw, you don't have to worry about whether something is a valid connection to get to a certain location. You are allowed 3 stops (more than 24 hrs), including your destination and a total of 10 segments. You can't layover for more than 24 hours at any location once you have established your 3 stops but all this is explained brilliantly in the link.
Good luck.
Thanks for the link cmglan, I actually read about 50% of that discussion (it is extremely long) and I did not find anyone with the same itinerary as what I was putting together. I learned alot from it and if I do get a booking, I will definitely add to it. On that forum, there weren't many doing MEL to NRT via China.
I just checked online, and it appears AC put up more direct flights, so my itinerary should work, I just have to pay more YQ (the total she quoted me was 601 for the whole thing in Y. The AC return kicked it up a couple of hundred I think.