Originally Posted by christep
I find that very hard to believe - if what you say is true then one could fly more or less indefinitely for the price of one award. My reading of the OneWorld Awards is that it is the actual distance flown which determines the number of miles required.
It's definitely not the actual distance--for example JFK-LHR-JNB is measured simply as JFK-JNB...but I don't know about the examples given above, They may well be the same (obviously you can't stop-over at any of those places.)