Originally Posted by yellow77
This is correct. The part where you say is not. It has to be an international itinerary. A RTW is almost by definition an international itinerary, so you get QP access on flights that are part of the RTW ticket.
Also, if you fly QF AKL-LAX then you can connect to the QF LAX-JFK flight. This is allowed. What's not allowed is to fly into LAX on anything other than a QF flight number (so you can't use the AA codeshare flight), or to stopover in LAX. You have to go international flight-(QF)-LAX-(QF)-JFK with no stopover in LAX, or vice versa. See the discussion at the end of this thread
http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthrea...ighlight=QF107.
Well, if that's the thread that's been bandied about recently, it gives one unhappy example, and the traveler didn't seem to be using an xONEx ticket. Over the past couple of years people who generally seem to know these things have mentioned here that QF107 can always be included as an OWE segment, but I don't know if they were speaking from experience or merely authority. In any case it depends on the whim of the QF check-in agent, and QF doesn't seem to go out of it way to instruct its staff to be charitable imho.
None of that matters to the OP - QF in, QF out has not been disputed in anything I've read. (Nor have I seen anything that suggests that an intervening stopover is disallowed. If QF or the U.S. government was seriously against that, QF would probably schedule it as a technical stop.)
A year ago we included a bunch of QF segments on an AONE4 and invariably were welcomed in their lounges as available - never so much as a raised eyebrow.