The ticket had to be issued yesterday because I fly out in 21 days, just to add another painful twist of the knife. My travelling partner isn't thrilled at the prospect of (yet more) routing changes so I think the most likely solution will be some kind of MR before the RTW trip. The best I've found thus far (from the MR forum) is doing SYD-SIN-SYD on BA in WT+, which nets upward of 11k QPs and hence Plat before I leave, which would be a bonus .. price tag is ~AUD1200 though.

I hadn't realised quite how ridiculous the QF points situation was compared to AA .. does AA have a similar oneworld award to QF (140,000 points for 35,000 mile rtw trip in economy)? And if so can you transfer points between the two FFPs?