How does the Qantas Oneworld RTW itineraries in PointHacks articles work?

Flights & Airfares
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  1. In the sample itinerary on the Point Hacks webpage, which has five connections, are each of the cities, Hong Kong, New York, London, Johannesburg and Sydney stopovers?

  2. In the second itinerary where more connections have been added (Tokyo, Los Angeles and Doha) as the Rule limits the number of stopovers greater than 24 hours to five stopovers am I correct in assuming the additional connections are stopovers?

  3. Similarly, in the third itinerary ‘Round-the-world with extra time in Europe’ are the additional connections to the cities in Europe also stopovers or were they for less than 24 hours?

  4. Does adding additional flights amount to a change or is it a new booking?

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The key to Qantas Oneworld Classic Flight Reward (RTW), is to keep all flights on the same itinerary.

Whenever you add, reduce or shift flights after the initial booking, you are making a change to the one itinerary.

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If as part of my booking I want to book a return flight to travel from one of the 5 stopover cities to another place is that classed under the rules as a segment?

  1. If however, I make my own arrangements by arranging to travel by another means is that regraded as a segment under the rules?

By way of example, I plan to stop at Prague as one of my five stop overs and then taking a river cruise from Praque and then going back to Praque by another means before transmitting on to the next of my five stopover cities.

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They (Qantas) won’t know and will not care if you are returning to the same city by other means outside of your RTW itinerary. So, all good if you want to do side trips.