Thank you to all for your advice on routing. After taking everyone's advice into account, I have come up with this routing. I am going to do it in business class and I am aiming to keep it under 25,000 total miles. Now, according to Oneworld the mileage is determined point to point, not including connections. I used the milemarker feature of webflyer to map out the itinerary below. I am coming up with 24751 miles. Two questions: 1) I want to maximize the places I see. Are there any interesting stops I can include that won't push me over 25,000 miles? 2) What service does American/Oneworld use to calculate the mileage between two cities? Is milemarker the appropriate tool to use?
Here is the current Itinerary without connections. Any suggestions on carriers to use for segments (although most are dictated by route) please feel free to chime in. I am planning to do this intinerary over about three months and I will be leaving SJC on March 24th of this year. To keep the miles down I am going to take a cheap JetBlue flight to Oakland a few days before departure to keep miles down.
SJC-HNL-AKL-WLG-CHC-ZQN-HBA-MEL-CBR-SYD-BNE-CNS-AYQ-PER-DPS-SIN-BKK-ATH (Open Jaw) LHR-JFK
Thanks!

OneWorld RTW does not depend on mileage but rather segments. So I have no idea what you are concerned about. UNLESS you're talking about award routing.

BUT a STAR alliance RTW is based on mileage .. so are you sure you're posting this on the right forum?

FYI - QF does not fly HNL-AKL so you'd have to connect via Australia somewhere.

FYI - Why is there a blank between JFK and SJC?



[This message has been edited by Guy Betsy (edited 03-08-2002).]

I had the same confusion at first as well. If you book a Oneworld award and go around the world it is done as a multi-carrier award. The rules etc are found here:
https://www.im.aa.com/American?BV_En...=guest-index-a ad.tmpl&BV_ServiceName=American

Unfortunately, I just got off the phone with American Airlines and part of the requirements of the award prevent you from using Quantas flights that are operated by some code-share operators so I will now fly into Aukland and make my way around New Zealand on my own. I think I have gotten the mileage under control now. Though if anyone knows of any creative destinations to throw into the itinerary without adding miles that would be great. As for the HNL-AKL flight, the award mileage is calculated point to point. For this flight I am actually flying HNL-SYD-AKL, but they determine mileage as HNL-AKL. (Annoyingly enough award availability is actually forcing me to do Ayer's rock - Sydney - Perth rather than Ayer's Rock to Perth directly. Oh well.