Originally Posted by Gardyloo

Last time I looked the QF/LY J RTW was around $4950 ex-USA. You have to fly LY metal over the Atlantic and QF over the Pacific; you can do one backtrack from TLV-Europe and can add JNB (LY weekly) for $300 (IIRC) then QF to SYD from there. The US QF people were easy to deal with but wouldn't ticket eastbound itins from the US - they sent me to LY instead, and that was frustrating to the max.