Hi again AlanT

I’ve been playing around with your proposed itinerary, and here are some thoughts for you (to do with as you please).

Firstly I agree with everything [MENTION=40177]anabolism[/MENTION] said – especially about maximising the good-quality business long-haul experience; QR has been rated best of breed for the last couple of years so you should aim to have a few flights with them. I place CX and JL on the second rank, then long-haul BA and AA then the rest.

Starting Point: In addition to Norway, Hungary and Egypt are also good starting points in Europe/Middle East (both their currencies have fallen against hard currencies – i.e. USD/GBP/EUR). An advantage of starting in Egypt is that you can end anywhere in the Middle East, no need to return to Egypt if you don’t want to.

Transit/Stopover points.
Some of your segments do not have direct Oneworld flights between the origin and destination, so you will need to transit or stopover somewhere:

OSL-LAX – anabolism’s suggestion of OSL-DOH-LAX is excellent imho
NYC-HNL – you are allowed only one transcontinental flight in North America, which you have already used (LAX-NYC) so you cannot fly directly back to the west coast. NYC-DFW-HNL is the obvious choice.
SIN-HBA (Hobart) – something like SIN-MEL-HBA on Qantas
HBA-AKL – something like HBA-SYD-AKL
AKL-JNB – the obvious choice is AKL-SYD-JNB with Qantas, BUT you could instead do AKL-DOH-JNB with Qatar! Qatar flies to quite a few African destinations, any of which could be substituted for JNB.
JNB-OSL – either JNB-DOH-OSL, or JNB-LHR-OSL with BA.

Duration: One month seems too short imho. One possibility is to defer the African portion. Assuming you are UK-based, you could return from AKL to LHR, stopover for a time and then go to Africa. Something like:

AKL-DOH-LHR…..LHR-JNB-DOH-OSL, or
AKL-HKG-LHR….LHR-CPT-DOH-OSL

The ‘Ticket Tricks” section of the User Guide I referred in my earlier post has some suggestions for splitting a RTW trip into multiple holidays

Here’s a map where I put it all together:

AlanT's tentative RTW itinerary

Happy Planning!