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Old May 11, 2024 | 10:42 pm
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Originally Posted by pandaperth
The itinerary has five flight segments in Europe/Middle East
And four stopovers there
...LON-xAMM-MAD-JED-xAMM-LON...

This is valid on a Global Explorer
but is invalid on a Oneworld Explorer

The First or Business class Global Explorer has a maximum mileage of 34,000
The itinerary exceeds this

So the itinerary is invalid
Could be wrong but I understood MAD / JED as a surface segment which should make it valid for a DONEx. Also makes sense since IB doesn't fly to JED and the OP didn't indicate any connection getting there.

Originally Posted by clansey1973
TYO JL JKT QF X/SYD QF BNE AA X/DFW AA MIA AA LON RJ X/AMM RJ MAD/-JED RJ X/AMM RJ LON BA KUL MH TYO

The OW site is telling me "Estimated Segments: 9 (max 16), Stopovers: 7 (min 2, max 15), Miles: 36481 (max 34000), Itinerary Status: Valid"

However the site will not price in Business. Any ideas?
Are any segments giving you economy only instead of business? That can cause pricing issues in the tool. I think your best bet is to call AA RTW desk with this and have them price it, you have the required AA overwater segments.

My only other bit would be why RJ for LHR-xAMM-MAD and not QR LHR-xDOH-MAD? On RJ the MAD flight is an A320 with recliners and the AMM lounge is nothing special at all (for that matter the 787 from LHR is also nothing special at all). With QR you'd get widebodies on both flights and the Al Mourjan lounge in DOH.
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