After a long search and communication with the airlines concerned, I have come up with the FULL rules and some FAQs.

1. Are INTRA-CONTINENT flights eligible for the promotion?

NO - for AA, QF, CX, IB, AY
YES - for LA
May be - for BA (no for UK Domestic)
No reply: Aer Lingus

2. Are stop overs required?
NO - for AA, IB, AY, LA, BA
YES - for QF, CX
Not known - Aer Lingus

3. Is it necessary to register in advance?
No (except for AA - USA/Canada Members)

4. Can one get bonus in multiple airlines?
YES - if one has -6- applicable flights for all airlines. Thus to get for all -8- airlines, one would have to get -48- flights.

5. How much bonus is posted?
All have different values.

6. When will the bonus be posted?
Between October to January, depending on the airlines.

7. What is best plan for all -8- bonuses?
I am working on it and will post when finalised.

Hope this is useful for some FTs who are planning to do the mileage run.

THANK YOU! for a thorough job of research and for sharing the results with us.

(My hat is off to anyone seriously contemplating getting bonuses with all 8 airlines, or even most of them. I'll get all 6 continents on AA with a few landings left over, but I'd ruin my shot at EXP this year if I credited those flights to another program for the bonus.)

maybe i'm still missing something, but if i interpret these rules as stated here, if you attempt to get the full bonus in more than one account, the majority of your segments need to be from one continent to another.

so for all of us who have bought these 1w rtw tickets to maximize this in as many programs as possible, it seems like it isn't feasible. on 1 rtw you are basically limited to one program.

if this is true, why do all of the claims state it doesn't matter what continent you start on, it only matters where you land. it seems like it would be easier to say:

1. only flights from one continent to another are eligible.
2. no flights segments within the same continent are eligible

once again, whoever comes up with the promos overlooks so many things they end up generating more questions than answers.

how does a flyertalk member get a job at 1w promotions planning? we as frequent flyers OBVIOUSLY think about this stuff more than they do.

I've got an email from American saying that INTRA-Continental flights count.

Here is the e-mail I got from AAdvantage Customer service:

Thank you for visiting the American Airlines Web site and for the e-mail message you sent to AAdvantage Customer Service.

In response to your questions regarding the oneworld "Visit the Continents" promotion, I am happy to provide the following information:

1. "Visit the Continents" is a promotion provided by American Airlines AAdvantage. In order to earn the bonus miles, the required travel would have to be posted to the AAdvantage account. Members cannot have flights posted to more than one frequent flyer account. You would need to check with each of the oneworld partners to see if they are running a similar promotion. Keep in mind their promotion may have different restrictions than ours.

2. Travel within the continent is excluded from the promotion. You must leave one continent and travel to another continent for eligibility. The continent count is based on the location of each arrival city. i.e. Chile to the United States and back to Chile would count as two continents.

3. Stop overs are not necessary.

4. All qualifying AAdvantage mileage on a oneworld carrier counts toward the promotion. Your flight must be marketed and operated by a oneworld airline to be eligible. Flights must be eligible for mileage accrual to the AAdvantage program to count. Each oneworld carrier has specific restrictions for qualifying mileage. You may check this information on our Web site at www.aa.com. Under the AAdvantage section go to Earning Miles, then Earning Miles On Airlines, then click on the appropriate carrier.

5. Each AAdvantage member must register before his travel. Contact AAdvantage Customer Service at 1-800-882-8880, and request to be placed on promotion OWCON.

6. Travel on subsidiary airlines of oneworld are not eligible toward the promotion. Your flight must be marketed and operated by the oneworld carrier.

We appreciate your business and hope you will continue to travel with us often.

Regards,

Brent L. Scaff
AAdvantage Customer Service
American Airlines

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So here we go with conflicting messages from the airlines.

IN OTHER WORDS MAKE SURE YOU GET CONFIRMATION FROM THE AIRLINES BEFORE YOU TRY FOR THE BONUS.

miler,

Thanks for posting your e-mail. The very interesting thing I find about this relpy is that Anne of WebFlyer has already confirmed with AA that intracontinental flights do count for the bonus so this is a major contradiction.

I did e-mail AAdvantage with this intracontinental question, however i provided an example and asked if a flight from EZE to SCL would count as South America. The "answer" was "yes, Santiago is in South America". Not really an answer to my question about intra-continental flights.

A new wrinkle into the mix provided by this e-mail is that subsidiary carriers do NOT count to the bonus. IF that is true then the flight from LGW - CAS would not count as it is operated by subsidiary GB Air. This rule is ridiculous. It would be the same as saying AA Eagle flights do not count.

Anyway i will fire off another e-mail to AAdvantage to enquire as to the rules.

rich

MARKIE: could you post a copy of your e-mail from AA indicating intra-continental flights do apply?

[This message has been edited by RichLond (edited 07-24-2000).]

For clarity - would

LHR-MAD on BA count as Europe?
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Reply:

Dear Mr. Beattie,

Thank you for visiting the American Airlines Web site and for your recent email to AAdvantage Customer Service. Yes that would count as Europe.

I appreciated the opportunity to respond to your concerns. I look forward to assisting you again in the future.

Regards,

Penny Moore
AAdvantage Customer Service
American Airlines

RichLond - I emailed AAdvantage with a specific list of flights and if they would qualify. One of them was the GB Airways flight to CAS. They said it would qualify.

If you look at one of the oneworld marketing brochures (usually available in the lounges), it shows a table with a column for each of the core carriers and which of their subsidiaries count as an equivalent carrier. Last time I checked GB Airways was listed for BA.

Hi guys

After a couple of days of skull-sweat (and looking without success for OneWorld partner routemaps on the web) I finally refined my searches and found your forum. Knew you had to be out there somewhere :-)

I want to hit the six continent promo, and have been struggling with an itinary from HK - such as HKG-JNB-LHR-CCS-LAX-SYD-HK this seems to have too may overnight fares for my preferences.

I was interested to see that various people have discussed muli-airline awards (with a lot more stops, of course). Given the benefit of experience and hindsight, has anyone got a good itinary from HK including Sydney & London but optimising the travel time (biz class) and connections (CX rules seem to require a stopover, and I've seen two definitions: 24 hours and 'non-transit' (overnight?) Which way around is better? East-West or vice versa? Finally, is there a better way of bringing in S America and/or Africa? I was hoping that the Virgins or somewhere else in the Caribbean would work, but finding a gateway city where two OneWorld carriers meet is turning out tricky...

Thanks in advance

Neil

Just wanted to thank previous posters for raising, then clarifying, the issue of GB Air to Africa. I'm booked on them this Friday to CMN primarily to pick up my 6th continent. (A chance to see a bit of Morocco isn't entirely unwelcome, but I wouldn't have done it now for that reason alone.) I had a few anxious moments but feel better now.

I guess we'll all only know the outcome when the promo miles get posted to our respective accounts. And even then , we may never know if it is correct or not.

I know I've done my required flights from One continent to another and I'll only get 4 continents with AA and none with CX.

Oh well....

Hmmm. The more I think about this, the more confused I could get. If most of the carriers require an inter-continental hop to count the arrival, than the previous poster would seem to be correct - one RTW will only get one carriers full awards.

There seem to be two possibilities: to zig-zag in between adjacent continents en route E-W or W-E, or to add minor hop returns off the RTW ticket. The former is in the itinary, the latter depends on finding inter-continental desinations that are both close together and served by a OneWorld carrier (sorry for restating the blindingly obvious). So - what are the most interesting city pairs in this category? I would think that there should be something in the Caribbean that would give you US and S.America; following the islands I noticed Guam counts as Australasia, and so on.

Any suggestions?

Neil

I should think Spain-Morocco would do nicely. You can get to Spain from lots of places on Iberia.

Last week I flew LHR-MAD-CMN-LGW in order to get LHR-MAD in AA, MAD-CMN in BA and CMN-LGW in QF.

Work in progress... I'm aiming to get all six continents for two schemes. Here's my proposed routing:

HKG-JNB-LHR-MAD-TFS-CCS-MIA-TGU-LAX-SYD-DPS-PER-HKG

The weakest link that I can see is MAD-TFS-CCS, in that I am relying on the actual routing being MAD-TFS-(MAD)-CCS, and being able to book TFS-(MAD) on one scheme and (MAD)-CCS on another. Does the house think that this will fly (sic)? Any suggestions?

Of course, I haven't got to the fun bit of timing this sucker... (aaargh). Any comments or improvements gratefully received...

Neil