Thank you for the questions clansey1973. Gave me something to do while I'm hunkered down 😊 (I'm in the virus at-risk age group)

I'm assuming:

• Your desired itinerary is LON-SCL-AKL-BNE-SIN-LON
• You will be travelling in economy class

I see [MENTION=82303]ernest[/MENTION]ywang has addressed your third option, which is good because I know nothing about that fare. But I do know quite a bit about the other two.

The first option looks like a Oneworld Explorer ticket, specifically a LONE4 (economy class, 4 continents). The base fare for this is £2,100. I priced your itinerary using the tool available on the Oneworld website – the all-in fare is £2,824 (you could purchase it online if you wish). While more expensive than option 3, with this ticket you can do a lot more than your proposed itinerary. To learn more, take a look at the wiki to The Oneworld Explorer User Guide thread (in brief, you can fly any of the Oneworld airlines plus their affiliates, take up to one year and up to 16 flights).

Your second option is Oneworld's Global Explorer, specifically a LGLOB26 (economy class, maximum 26000 miles). The base fare for this is £1800, so the all-in cost for your itinerary will be about £300 less than the LONE4 cost. (The saving should be a bit more – because on this ticket you can take LA's SCL-AKL non-stop flight rather than fly QF via SYD, thus saving the transfer add-ons at SYD.) Again, with this ticket you can do a lot more than your proposed itinerary, though in your case you are pushing up against the 26,000 mile limit and the allowed 5 stopovers (your itinerary is 25,245 miles and 4 stopovers). More miles and more stopovers = more money, of course. You cannot book this ticket online – you need to contact a Oneworld airline or use travel agent.

So bottom line – if you only want your 4 stopovers, then Option 3 looks like your best bet.



But if you want to do more – then read on 😊

Option 1 – LONE4

You are allowed up to 4 flights in each of South West Pacific, Asia and Europe/Middle East – so you can make numerous additions to your itinerary. (see the User Guide wiki Ticket Tricks section)

Option2 – LGLOBnn

As I've said your proposed itinerary is bumping up against the limits of the LGLOB26, but for £300 more you can buy a LGLOB29, which allows up to 29,000 miles and up to 15 stopovers (maximum of 4 per continent). A feature of the Global Explorer is that it allows more airlines than just the Oneworld airlines plus their affiliates. Of interest to you may be that you can fly LA (the South American airline LATAM) and FJ (Fiji Airlines) and can also fly the QF codeshares on TN (Air Tahiti Nui) – here's a sub-29000 mile itinerary I knocked up as an example LHR-CMN-RIO-SCL-IPC-PPT-AKL-NAN-BNE-KUL-DEL-LHR.