Originally Posted by JohnAx
If you shake the bank real hard and a DONEx falls out, that would be an enormous help in accumulating miles for your challenge or whatever else. And depending on how long you have for your journey, 5 continents seems a bit inefficient - you're paying extra and nonetheless limited to 20 segments. Just comments - everyone has different travel goals.
Haha, it's a combined work-holiday trip so I'm kind of constrained as to some of the destinations (hence the inefficiency), but at least I'm not paying for it
One idea I've been mulling over is taking an award flight to AKL and flying LAN in J AKL-SYD for $266 .. gets 2518 QPs, and if I can convince the person I'm travelling with to split the cost (since we'd both get lounge access) then that might work. Otherwise possibly some other kind of random QF J flight, if I can find something cost-efficient.