Originally Posted by
yellow77
Nonsense. Replace the second LHR in your example with any destination where you can connect from AY to QF (eg BKK, so syd-lax-jfk-lhr-hel-bkk-syd) and you're well under 26K miles. It may not be the most exciting RTW, but it's cheaper than the LONE4.
QF flies to precisely 2 cities in Europe (in Jan 2007) -- LHR and FRA. Shocking, isn't it? AY flies to HKG, NRT and PVG in Asia where you could connect to QF -- but AY has an inferior business and economy product, so saving the miles is at the cost of comfort. However it is a shame to go RTW without seeing more than 1 city per continent.