Originally Posted by Padkir

Hi everyone. I'm new to Flyertalk and was hoping to get some general feedback on my proposed Oneworld Explorer route and also some of the specific queries I have. Apologies if my lingo isn't up to scratch - I'm still learning! Let me know if you want to clarify anything. I've read a lot about the xONEx ticket rules and have spent many frustrating hours playing with the Oneworld online tool, but I won't pretend to know all the nuances of all the rules at this stage.

For some background, my wife and I are planning to take a year off work starting Feb/Mar 2024 and doing some extended RTW travel for the full year. We've flown a bit over the last 10 years or so, but wouldn't be frequent flyers by any stretch of the imagination - most of our flights have been simple returns or maybe the odd open jaw return, so this is a whole new level of complexity! We've largely planned our route out (albeit have plenty of room for tweaking as it will probably be summer next year before we book anything). I don't have a subscription to Expertflyer, but will strongly consider this from next Apr/May when I start looking at real dates for flights, as I understand it is the go-to for checking flight availability by fare class. We are hoping to stretch the flights budget to business rather than economy, so the below is based on a DONE5 (coming in at approximately €7,700 incl. taxes and charges based on the below).

Current planned route is BUD-xLHR-SCL-MIA-ORD-ANC-HNL-SYD-NAN-SYD-AKL-KUL-DEL-xDOH-AMM-xLHR-BUD

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