Thread topic Oneworld booking and pricing experiences
Not earning to a particular ffp, That is a function of the airline ffp subforums.
There are already 3 separate threads in the OW forum on the BAEC changes.

I posted it as a practical example in relation the discussion on the possibility of BAEC members now looking at OW RTWs as an option for attaining status at a more reasonable cost under the new system as opposed to traditional TPRs. So I think it is relevant.

Thread topic Oneworld booking and pricing experiences

Price of the ticket relevant depending who you fly with and maybe avoiding BA/AA/IB and maximising others in the planning/booking of the segments.

Booking and pricing is completely separate from where the miles get credited. At least start a different thread instead of cluttering up the sticky?

Lol, so what’s your excuse for posts #2636, 2630 etc then? :p

Anyway, run its course and there are threads in the general OW discussion now.

FWIW, I have not heard from Hennebou, nor has he returned to the thread. My offer remains open.

I think this extremely public-spirited, and would be a worthy idea.

And the relevance of your post to oneworld booking and pricing experiences is what?

Oh, I was just interested, based on the above whether British Airways had exited the oneworld alliance. I imagined the 24-36 months of legal notice, competition enforcement inquiry, political argument, and capital market volatility had somehow passed me by. Therefore I just hopped over to the oneworld website and it seems BA are still a member of oneworld. Amazing stuff really.

Data point from my planned DONE3:
Since 2 OTAs I reached out to seemed to be overwhelmed with this topic "D-1-ex, whaaat?!" I gave the AA RTW desk a try and called before NY break.
Intended routing was
OSL - DOH - CMB - CGK
CGK - HKG - CTS
CTS - HND
HND - DFW
DFW - ANC
ANC - LAX
LAX - JFK - MAD - AGP
AGP - HEL - OSL
originally thought as a nice start for new BAEC year, but for obvious reason this is now obsolete, so guess I will treat this trip as my personal Farewell-Tour...

Friendly and competent guy at the hotline who was able to enter all the relevant dates and flights, however eventually I had to settle for some minor changes.
He was not able to get HND - DFW on JL, neither as JL no. nor under AA codeshare, no availability, even some days before / after my planned date.
Same for ANC - LAX, which was changed to ANC - SEA - LAX.
3rd point was JFK - MAD not possible to get on IB flight (same issue as JL flight), so ended up on AA flight to MAD.
I repeatedly asked if this was because they prefer to have their own metal for RTW tickets but he said it was really about availability.

Overall I was quite impressed that the process was relatively straight forward. Had to call back twice as the reservation had some date mix ups and seems the system changed some flights(?) - but was solved quickly each time, with the second time also possible to take the payment via phone.
Total around 5.760 € including everything.

Seat reservations worked with the related Amadeus codes for the other airlines, AA could be done directly via their website.

Some noob questions:
Any chance / point on monitoring flight availability of the JAL and IB flights from other people's past experience?
Do I understand correctly that if I want to change those flights (just to other carrier, same date, same route) this change should be free or charge?
Or was this only after I started flying this ticket?

Happy new year and happy flying in 2025.

Strange issue I'm having trying to make a change to a Cathay flight segment on my DONE4.

I'm currently booked on HKG to YYZ at a certain time (say 6pm), but I'd like to move to the earlier flight on the same day (2.30am). Availability showing on Expert Flyer and the AA RTW desk person could see it too, but they said they couldn't make the change as Cathay weren't confirming the seat/booking he was trying to do, or something like that.

Anyone have any experience with this or know what I could do? My current booking it leaving me with a 20 hour overnight layover that I don't want or need, so I'd really like to make the change before availability is gone (currently D5 on Expert Flyer).

Thanks!

For our JFK-HKG flights BA cannot see anything close to D availability on expertflyer as well.

Others have run into this too and posted about it here. Only workaround I’ve found is to find other flights with EF availability and ask about those.