Originally Posted by
Alan T
looking for a little guidance or confirmation as I will be making my first, and likely only, OneWorld RTW ticket purchase later this year for trip in Oct/Nov 24.
It’s a special trip (retirement or partial anyway) in Business and we intend it to be a bit of a TP run as well to retain our Gold BAEC status.
It will be about a month give or take few days.
It appears starting in Oslo will give best value so outline routing (after playing on the tool) is:
OSL>LAX>NYC(JFK/EWR)>HNL(via LAX or other)>HND/NRT>SIN>HOB>AKL/WLG>JNB>OSL(via DOH?)
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A lot of destinations for only a month. What places will you actually stop at?
Many of those airports do not have a non stop OW flight. Much work needed to establish who fly's where.
Expert flyer is good. The wikipedia entry for a airport can give airlines & routes. But not always up to date or list routes announced, but not yet flown. Is a starting point for more research.
A map from the Great Circle Mapper - Great Circle Mapper
HOB = Hobart, TAS, Australia- IATA code HBA.
No OW non stop flights SIN-HBA. Will need to be via BNE/SYD/MEL/PER.
From HBA to AKL the only non stop flight is by Air New Zealand, so not eligible. Nothing HBA-WLG. So need to fly QF HBA to AKL/WLG via BNE/SYD/MEL.
From SYD/MEL to HBA can be cheap to buy (short distance) so may be poor value using the limited 16 flights allowed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_Airport
AKL/WLG to JNB will need to be via SYD on QF.
You have 12 months to complete. With careful selection you can do the last few flights a the end. I did a RTW and had a "
9 month stopover" at home. Effectively got to another expensive destination for the cost of a separate cheap cash one way domestic flight (rules on trip starting / ending).
At times getting the D (business) flights can be hard, as airlines limit the availability of these fare booking classes.
All the best for your research