<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by willyroo:
It also depends on your tier status with QF - OW tier through AA/BA won't help in this regard. The FF service centre is "flexible" with stopover fees for its elites. Good for QF Gold, and very good for QF Platinum FFs.</font>
This only works for QF awards (not sure about partner awards??), but not for the OneWorld award, where the rules are set by OneWorld and not able to be bent by any of the airlines for any of their premium FF members. 5 stopovers is the hard and fast limit with the OneWorld award

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">BTW, there's also a great airline called
Qantas.