Originally Posted by FatBoyYVR
SIN - SYD SQ
SYD - MEL UA
MEL - AKL NZ
I recently tried to book something very similar to this, IIRC flying in to SYD on AC and then connecting onto UA to MEL. The UA agents told me however that this was not possible, I could only board the intra-australian segment to MEL if I had been on the transpacific with UA. I.e only "local" carriers can carry out local flights unless the local segment is a continuation of an international flight. This was on a *A RTW booked out of MEL.
Just a word of warning to check the rules around this.
chico