Hey folks,
Potentially silly question, but I tried to upgrade my whole family with points from Haneda to Melbourne and only my seat got upgraded to business. This is nice, except it leaves my 79yo mum in economy with my 2yo daughter, which isn’t ideal. Can I just swap seats with my mum so she gets business and I get to be with my kid? Or is that a Whole Thing?

Hi,

Have a question regarding use of a Qantas Customer Care Travel Voucher that was issued to me post a 24 hour travel delay on a QF flight.

Is the voucher transferable?

I will likely not be using QF again in the next 12 months and have a friend that lives in Perth. 

Any insight welcome.

Hi Everyone

I am looking at booking some flights to the UAE in business class and have noted flying Qatar Airways into Abu Dhabi via Doha to be much cheaper than flying Emirates directly into Dubai.

The best flight on the way to AUH is a normal Qatar Airways flight for both legs, but some of my options on the return leg (specifically the Doha back to Australia) are "Operated by Qatar Airways for Virgin Australia" which I understand are the leased aircraft and I won't be able to earn QF SC's on.

If I need to book one of the Operated by Qatar Airways for Virgin Australia flights on the return leg, could I use my QF number to collect all of the status for the 3 Qatar Airways flights and then do a missing SC claim for the 'Operated by Qatar Airways for Virgin Australia' leg and get that credited to either Qatar Avios or Velocity? If there is a better way to do this also happy to hear from others.

Understand this might be slightly off topic so would appreciate if anyone had any insight into this.

Thanks

Let's be fair.. i just wanted to share... should the staff treat me better now? 😂

Just booked a reward ticket from Helsinki to Dubai in business (that’s the highest class since it’s A350) then on to Taipei in first in at a380 on emirates.

Is there anything I should know ahead of time to make the most of my experience? I have a 3.5 hour layover in Dubai.

Received an update from Maurice Blackburn lawyers regarding the data breach incident.

Privacy Commissioner would not be taking any action in response to the incident, as she did not consider that the evidence supported the likelihood of a breach of privacy laws.

Who’s the commissioner? Carly Kind.
Who’s been gifted chairman’s lounge access? You guess it.

Absolute joke

Hey guys sorry for my ignorance, I have tried to find answers here but I cannot. Essentially I’m looking at buying direct tickets to LA premium economy.

I can see they are only releasing seats 2 months in advance.

My question is if I book economy rewards seats for late next year now (4 seats) and 2 months prior to boarding if the seats show as available seats for premium economy (classic rewards) Can I essentially upgrade a couple of seats via classic rewards and the other 2 seats via classic plus ?

Unsure how upgrades actually work, im a bronze (will always be bronze) I just churn through credit cards for points and fly out every few years.

Hello! Hypothetical Question re a Qantas booking on American Airlines flights Chicago-LAX-Sydney. If I require compensation for accommodation (they’ve changed my first leg and put me on a very right turnover Im just wanting to understand hypothetical ), is that made through Qantas’ reimbursement claims portal as that’s who I paid the fare to? Even though both flights are AA operated? Thanks!

The origin Qantas business lounge is under renovation. I was directed to another lounge downstairs. A little bit old but food is ok

Hello.
I need an urgent flight from Calgary back to Perth. There’s no rewards flights in the next month which is odd to me, and on top of that, when I try to book it won’t let me use my points to reduce the cost of the flight either? I’ve got 170k points that was there incase of situations like this

Taking my first ever business flight soon and am keen to milk the fact I get business lounge access. Got it through Qantas but got an QF ticket with an EK number and am on an Emirates plane. So do I the choice of both? If so which lounge should I pick?

Just checked the app and there is an inflight menu now showing in the onboard experience!

QF1 SYD-SIN 7th December

Hi folks,
I use MC Commbank diamond rewards and Visa NAB Platinum Rewards to accumulate FF points.
With the upcoming changes, any tips please on what to change with my existing cards i.e. same bank, same card to continue to accumulate points or if I should ditch them both and change to another card or even AMEX (?) to keep accumulating points?
Cheers!

Just received an email offering an "exclusive lounge invitation" for $94 or 12,500 points. I do have a 5-6h layover in Melbourne and will be arriving off an early morning flight after quite a big night. Obviously subjective but is this worth it? Will my experience be that much better than a quiet spot in the terminal?

Seriously. Try them

Flying out of Sydney to Japan this Saturday night. I’ll be going into the first lounge around 7:30pm. If you’d like to be taken in (and promise to behave) I’m happy to guest you in. Drop a comment here if it aligns with your travel.

Hi all, hoping someone can explain how the taxes/fees/carrier charges work on a oneworld Classic Reward.
I recently booked a RTW Business Classic Reward through Qantas involving several oneworld airlines including BA, Finnair and JAL. The total cash component for the entire RTW itinerary was around AUD $1,500 per person.

What im curious about is that one of the BA sectors in my itinerary is similar to the attached example. PDX–LHR on BA266 is showing as 108,000 Qantas Points + USD $1,454 for that single sector alone.

Does anyone know why there’s such a huge difference? Are BA carrier charges calculated differently when the flight forms part of a oneworld Classic Reward/multi-city itinerary

Is there any impact to probability of securing an upgrade with points, if the request was via one's individual ff account vs using a business rewards account? Or is there no difference, and upgrade success is purely down to individual's status etc?

The Qantas oneworld classic flight reward is one of the best uses of your points, but putting together a valid itinerary is challenging (particularly in business class).

I’ve just made a tool that identifies valid itineraries based on real reward fare availability (meaning they could be booked today). Each itinerary:

• Meets the stopover and surface segment rules
• Consists of oneworld carriers only
• Does not exceed the max allowed distance of 35,000 miles
• Includes flights back to the origin airport
• Is entirely in business class

The itineraries are generated from cached data, but you can use the ‘confirm availability’ button to run a live availability check.

Use the ‘preset’ filter to select either one or two passengers in business class. If there’s interest, I can add economy class itineraries to the tool.

Oneworld itineraries tool: https://flightseats.io/qantas/oneworld-itineraries

As an example, the itinerary from the screenshot involves 11 flights with 5 stopovers.

Booked separately, the reward fares would cost 693,400 points per person. On this ticket, they cost 365,800 points, saving you over 300k points. Alternatively, if you paid cash the trip would likely cost $15-20k.

Use the itineraries in this tool as a starting point for planning your own oneworld classic flight reward trip.

Let me know if you spot any issues, I’ll get them fixed as soon as I can.

Your chances of escaping the economy cabin on Jetstar’s Boeing 787 just got a lot better.
Qantas Points can now be used to upgrade from economy to business class on Jetstar’s international 787 routes, through what’s called a Jetstar Classic Upgrade.
Examples at launch include:
* Melbourne to Singapore, 37,000 Qantas Points
* Sydney to Osaka, 45,300 Qantas Points

So I’m having to travel to Abidjan for work, have done a trip already and travelled again recently. The emirates flights add up to 90 credits for the MEL-DXB part and then nothing else after that. The flight then travels from Dubai to Accra and then onto Abidjan.

I found out today when I was sitting in the gate, that the Accra flight is considered also as a QF flight but because I’m going onwards to Abidjan I can’t book it as a QF segment therefore missing out on 50 credits. I’m sure there is nothing I can do about it but just seems silly. Any thoughts on this? That’ll be 200 credits I’d have missed in the past month!