I made the comment in that thread because of what I read here: http://www.hardlink.com/~markdu/OWFi...kingCodes.html which says that F and J OneWorld tickets on Domestic Chilean LA flights book in Y.

If anyone has real experience to the contrary then obviously that overrides a hypthetical reading of the rules.

That post just refers to domestic Chile flights with possibly only one class of service (actually they are talking about SCL-IPC route in particular, which is 2 class so business cabin with DONE...) to me there's nothing about D class booking into Y on LA in general...please do not worry about that anymore...

Regarding the SCL-AKL/SYD vv flights, there is a well known problem with A class availability with only 5 seats total in F...regarding D class, the situation shouldn't be a problem.

SCL-IPC is a domestic Chile service. The rule I quoted appears to apply to all domestic Chilean services, without making any exceptions. If a OW ticketing agent quoted that rule to me I can't see how I could make any case for travelling in anything other than Economy, regardless of my class of ticket.

But again if you have actually travelled on that route using a DONEx (or AONEx) and not been in Y then I accept that the rule is open to different interpretations.

I flew SCL-IPC in Biz on an AONE ticket. (And while the flight is sold as two class, on the day of departure I was given a seat assignment in the front cabin.)

Even though the plane goes on to PPT? LA sells J tickets on that route.

This is totally irrellevant issue to argue over, no matter what the rules say, the real life is that a DONEx ticket allows one to travel in business class on all LAN operated flights which do feature atleast 2 classes of service, SCL-IPC vv being one of those.

Star file says
"AY/EI/LA/LP Domestic D class booking in Y"

None of these airlines have J cabin on their domestic flights (= the real reason behind the rule, not trying to keep DONEx pax in the back...) however, SCL-IPC continues to PTT, as have already been mentioned, and must therefore be classified as a part of an international route

Long post short: all DONEx pax, happy J-travel to IPC (D availability permitting ;)

Thanks, it all makes sense now and I'm glad we've cleared this up :D

Sorry to be a nuisance, but I have some more questions!

* Can I contact the UK/US BA RTW desk by email?
* How does seat selection work? Would MMB on ba.com work for all the flights or just the BA ones, assuming I'm booking through BA?
* Is there any way one can use BA miles to upgrade some of the flights (MFU)?

Thanks again - this forum is an amazing resource and I hope to give as much help as I've received when I become a bit more experienced at this :)

That may be about to improve (well from July). According to this post the service will be increasing to 6 per week.

I'm still finalising my itinerary and have started thinking about where to stay. I don't have upper tier status with any hotel programs but thought this trip would be a good opportunity to rack up some stays/points. For the route I'm doing (includes Europe, Asia, SWP & South America), which of the major hotel programs would you recommend? Is there any way of getting status before the trip on the strength of all the bednights I'll likely be booking? Thanks.

Check and see if your FF program provides free/quick upgrade status for hotel programs (I know some do). With your proposed itinerary I'd do Hilton or SPG. I think Hilton gives better benefits for lower-tier status, but SPG just bought Le Meridien so there are lots of properties to choose from.

Looks like nobody answered this one and I have a vested interest in the reply. :)
I have an AONEWC4 booked (but not issued) through BA. Using MMB on BA.com I can choose/alter seats on BA and Comair (the local franchise) flights. But I can't on BA codeshares (QF flights using the BA flight number). The CX and QF flights don't even appear on MMB.

Is there any way I can select seats on those flight online? Do I have to wait till after the ticket is issued? Or will I have to ask BA to do it for me?

Qantas have no facility to pre-allocate seats online. If CX do have such a facility, you may need to have an Asia Miles/MPC frequent flyer number against their segments.

All you have to do is contact BA and they should be able to do it for you.

Ta muchly. ^