Originally Posted by
creampuff
Thanks again for your help (and also to gardyloo who has also helped out a lot). For this part of the trip JNB and SYD are transits, but I will be making a long stop in SYD after MEL. I want to do Australia before Asia so that I will have summer in Australia (I arrive in Aus in January; doing Asia first I'd arrive in Aus in March or April).
Is there a direct CPT-DOH flight? I have the OneWorld electronic timetable and CPT-DOH is showing a transit in JNB (ie CPT-JNB would be a segment).
QR has a direct flight CPT-DOH three times a week (it's not non-stop, it stops in JNB, but for the Oneworld explorer it counts as a single segment)
The thought of flying Cathay JNB-HKG-MEL had crossed my mind, just because it is a 25 hour flight so I would really think I'm getting good value out of a DONE5 ticket, rather than just flying Qantas JNB-SYD-MEL in 15 hours
Or maybe that is crazy
IMHO, with a lap child you're most certainly crazy to contemplate this
Because you want to go back to Asia after Oz, then you're only allowed up to 24hrs in HKG; whereas if you went the CPT-DOH-MEL route, then you can stopover in DOH if you wanted to