im close to giving up on my first mileage run, and just putting all miles in 6 cont. m class ticket on AA for double plat. miles. i just can{t figure out how to get that 5th and 6th continent (toronto to sydney and later sydney to asia)if both qantas and ba require inter contintintal travel. i understand na, sa, europe and africa, these two have me stuck. also, if it{s a run strictly for miles, if i do the maximum number of segments, and 24 hour stopovers as required by Qantas, won{t my cost go up with all the departure taxes in each country, and the overnights? and if i{m in m class, flying on cathay, is there a reason to do the maximum number of segments in asia as they don{t count on aa? i{ve put an extraordinary amount of time into trying to figure out how to get 1ook bonus on 3 aa, qantas and ba, and even with a 6 cont. ticket and lots of time, i{m stuck. my deadline to buy the ticket is 48 hours.
i hope all you mileage wizards can help me.
thanks,
stealthflier

who has posted anywhere the definitive rules saying that ba qualifying flights have to be intra-continental versus inter-continental. how can 1w let one program co-opt all of a passengers longhaul flights, while relegating an intercontinental segment travel to other carriers?

i though everyone's premise was that you had to land on the continent for it to count, and that the origination point was unimportant?

Miler has posted a very helpful set or rules in 'OW 100K RULES FOR ALL AIRLINES'

I'm still struggling with a routing plan. My original intent was to use a OneWorld (5 continent, but go figure) RTW fare, make twelve segments by zigzagging between continents and pick up max points from two alliance partners. Given that CX require stopovers but AA do not, I thought that meant that I would run with six stopovers and six transits and all would be hunky-dory.

Unfortunately the OneWorld fare specifically requires that once you leave a continent you cannot go back (according to a previous post - God forbid that brochure material on this ever get to the public :-)), so that scuppers the simple West-East approach. However, it is possible to buy additional sectors, so I'm still waiting for the agent to come back to me.

The other approach would be to make up an RTW fare but add six small returns to adjacent continents. One suggestion in the above topic was Madrid to Tangiers, a short hop. A route map (I wish I had one) could show up short multifight hops with the potential to fly there and back in a day. These can give you two continents for the non-stopover carrier. A variation is that because the RTW continent difinition is different from the promotion defintion, there will be places that a zig-zag will work...

Neil

anyobody get bonus miles in more than one program? i've got flights all over, but only aa has posted stuff this far.