Both SFO-HNL and LAX-HNL are available on AA. Once in HNL return tickets between HNL-LIH are available for around 100 EUR purchased separately.

HNL-SYD is available direct with Qantas (some days of the week). And from SYD-AKL and AKL-HKG and onward to your Asia travel with CX for example.

You can get nice fully lie-flat seats in Business on several of the long-haul the routes.

With Oneworld I also could do LAX-LIH-(surface)HNL-SYD, then I would only have to use one local flight LIH-HNL (who needs more short flights on such an itinerary). But the problem is that in the booking tool I can"t find any availability for direct flights in the period I need them (around Oct 15th). I can only find flights through LAX (not allowed) and NRT... So this won't work.

In combination with the rather complicated route within the US (no direct SFO-LAX) so I gues Oneworld won't particularly work for me...

Without trying to push you into changing alliance for the trip you are planning - just to be fair re. SFO-LAX:

AFAIK there are several daily direct flights between SFO-LAX on AA?

(btw QF4 HNL-SYD has plenty of avalability on October 20 for instance in D Business Class according to Expertflyer.)

I prefer almost any aircraft over a 777 as it feels like a dorm and is one of the noisiest planes IMHO. And yes, the A380 is much quieter and also has the benefit of the higher cabin pressure.

No problem :-), I am looking for alternatives....
But after playing with the Oneworld booking tool, I can't really make it work.

My schedule really needs a flight from HNL-SYD/AKL around Oct 15th, Oct 20th is rather late. I figured I could get around this by flying to NRT first, and then to AU/NZ. But this makes it impossible to get home again (twice to the continent).

Also flying via AU to NZ (in and out) is not really what I would prefer.
And to make matters worse, the pricing is also higher (EUR 7400 vc EUR 6700) than *A. On top of that I would get a lot more connections instead of direct flights.

It might be me, but it just doesn't seems as good for US (including Hawaii) / NZ / JP from europe as *A. If I would have planned more cities in AU it would probably change.

After some more thought I think I'm reaching a final route. The first part would remain almost the same:

DUS – (ZRH) – SFO – LIH – (surface to HNL) – AKL

After reading that LX is flying from ZRH-SFO with A340-300's with new seats, I think I would prefer this over LH or UA (through FRA). Even thought this is only a day flight.
The second part is changed:

AKL – (NRT)- KIX (for a week in Osaka, possibly more) and then PVG - PEK - (FRA) - DUS
or PVG - SIN - (MUC) - DUS
The first choice would get me an LH A380 from PEK-FRA and the second an SQ 77W from SIN-MUC (without a surcharge). Both Beijing or Singapore would be good to finish with, allthough Beijing might probably be more interesting. PVG might get cancelled in both options since I feel it could be one city too much...

This itinerary would, as I understand it now, give me some C flights that are better than standard on the long-haul routes ZRH-SFO, AKL-NRT and PEK-FRA/SIN-MUC.

And it also gives me the option of booking a separate NZ flight from AKL to SYD or RAR. Especially the flights to SYD are cheap, and they have some nice holiday packages for RAR.

Looks good. But SIN-MUC is a USD 500 surcharge on SQ so why do you think there is none?

EDIT: In some old rules this city pair was not listed, however the most current rules unfortunately have it in. They even want USD 300 for MAN-MUC!
Another reason to boycott SQ.

The strange thing is that both these routes aren't mentioned (with a surcharge) on the *A website, and the book and fly tools gives no surcharge for these routes?

The tabel they use for SQ:
Singapore and San Francisco / Houston - 600 USD
Singapore and Los Angeles / New York - 900 USD
Seoul and San Francisco - 500 USD
Hong Kong and San Francisco - 500 USD
Moscow and Houston - 500 USD
Singapore and Paris / Milan / Barcelona / Zurich / Frankfurt / London / Moscow - 500 USD
Singapore and Delhi / Mumbai - 300 USD
Singapore and Hong Kong / Beijing - 300 USD
Singapore and Tokyo / Seoul - 300 USD
Singapore and Auckland / Melbourne / Sydney - 400 USD

But I think you're completely right, not a good deal.

I also saw the price of the *A RTW ticket go up with about EUR 400 for Business / 29000mi at the start of July, with no advanced notification on the website.... so paying another surcharge is not really what I'm after :-).

The route has been booked via the *A Book and Fly tool and changed allready (an easy change using the LH callcenter). It should now be final.

I made some changes to the first planned route. I now will be flying:
DUS-(ZRH)-SFO-LIH-(HNL)-AKL-RAR-(AKL)-NRT-(KIX)-ICN-PEK-(FRA)-DUS

I've also decided to go for Business class, so I guess I will be joining M&M for this trip as well. Should result in Frequent Traveller status after this trip.
I look forward to the LX A343 flight to SFO and some good 772 flights from NZ. And my first A380 from PEK :-).

Thanks for the comments on my earlier route.

Enjoy your trip!

Great to see members help one another with their knowledge in threads like these!