I just completed my first RTW, for my job, and wound up having to use AA because of the difficulty in using KE on specific dates, plus it was not very convenient to go from OZ back to ICN to get home-had to go east on this trip. Now, if I understand this correctly, I can go down under from HNL, then continue into Asia on KE.

I was perrty bummed out to have to use AA last month for a trip that would have given me 30M+ MQM's and about 75M Skymiles...