I've started the process of planning my RTW honeymoon vacation. I made my initial call to the CO rewards desk and got a fantastic rep who was able to give me some rather useful information regarding the fare classes and booking process.

First, it seems that each ST partner has their own way of putting together the RTW rewards. For instance, CO allows you to use VS, TP and AS as their partner airlines, even though they are not part of ST. I would assume that NW would probably let you use MH. DL might let you use El Al. I'm sure there are more. Certainly this makes things a bit more confusing from a planning perspective, but since most of us only have enough miles for the RTW on one carrier, at least we know which set of partners we're going to be using.

The other thing that the rep was able to give me was the fare classes for the various airlines that CO uses as their partners. These are the fare classes for the First/BusinessFirst reward. He said it would vary between 220K and 280K miles depending on which carriers/class things book in, but I'm assuming that this is the 280K trip.
CO - E
CO Operated by 2V/BE/DL/DM/CM - E
CM - G
DL - R
NW - W
VS - G
AS - W
KL - W
KL Operated by NW/EK - D
AF - O
UX - Z
OK - Z
AZ - Z
BE - C
KE - D
TP - I

Those are all the ones he had. Maybe on my next call I'll ask for the 140K coach booking codes and/or the codes for the paid tickets.

Anyone have any good suggestions for tools to help figure out the availability of these fare buckets? I'm guessing that I'm going to be subscribing to the KVS tool for a month or so to help with my planning, but I'm up for any other suggestions.