she said that a world perks rtw award trip is limited to 29,000 miles.
This agent was almost certainly incorrect, or WP has the most stringent version of a ST RTW reward, but I'm guessing the former, not the latter.
Originally Posted by
Jaimito Cartero
No open jaws.
This may be a WP-only thing. In my RTW trip I arrived at MNL and departed HAN creating an "open jaw" that is really a surface sector. MNL/HAN counted as one of my destinations in the calculation of the deal.
Regarding the no backtracking rule, paid and reward tickets are slightly different. In a paid ticket you cannot backtrack between zones, but once you are in Europe, for instance, the rules are pretty flexible. At least that is what I've been led to believe from posts in this thread. On a reward RTW you are strictly limited on a stop by stop basis, so each stop must move in the same direction, regradless of whether you're in the same zone/region. Taking advantage of the 24 hour connection rule usually helps alleviate this issue somewhat.