I'm commencing a DONE4 this month. As a rough outline I am doing it in 5½ 'trip's with positioning segments. I live in MEL.

• The oneWORLD validator shows this trip as 64,175 miles.
• With status and and cabin bonus' it will earn me about 124,374 miles.
• I will go from oneWORLD Sapphire to oneWORLD Emerald with the MEL-PER sector.
• My 'year' ends on 31st October.
• It will also earn 2360 Qantas Frequent Flyer status credits with 560 in my current "year" and 1800 in my next.
• I will attain "Lifetime Silver" with this trip (Yay! )

Pos 1: MEL-SYD-SIN-CMB: Pick up Tickets.

Trip 1: [ASIA] CMB-xHKG-xNRT,NRT-xHKG-xAKL-xMEL (Oct '05, CX to AKL then QF to MEL)

Trip 2: [SWP#1] MEL-PER (Oct '05, QF)

Pos 2a: PER-MEL (Oct '05)
Pos 2b: MEL-PER (Dec '05)

Trip 3: [SWP#2] PER-CNS*,CNS-MEL (Dec'05, QF)

Trip 4: [EUR] MEL-xLHR-DXB,DXB-xLHR-LAX (Mar '06, QF to LHR then BA)

Pos 3a: LAX-MEL (Mar '06)
Pos 3b: MEL-LAX (Jun '06)

Trip 5: [N/A] LAX-DFW,DFW-SEA,SEA-xDFW-ANC,ANC-xDFW-xJFK-HKG (Jun '06 AA to JFK then CX)

Pos 4a: HKG-MEL (Jun '06)
Pos 4b: MEL-HKG (Oct '06)

Trip 5½: HKG-CMB-<new xONEx> (Oct '06 CX. Pick up tickets for new trip, with first part ending back in MEL)

(* This was booked before recent changes to the xONEx rules; you can no longer do more than one PER-BNE/CNS/MEL/SYD sector but you could substitute DRW for CNS with this itinery. This would be 64,200 miles and 2340 SC's)