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One of the Qantas website's many, many errors.

There's something so wild about these only being bookable online. Bad luck if Qantas' website suffers one of its many failures. Bad luck if you're not the most competent with computers. As you've unfortunately found out, if you can't get the website to price it, you're completely out of luck...

You have to book 2 at saver level then hope they make 2 more seats available at the flexi rate.

If you're looking through Velocity, you'll only ever see 2 reward seats.

A lot of ID verification in the US involves asking questions about addresses/credit lines/employers/other information that may or may not belong to you. You then have to pick the ones that are correct.

Generally only 2 in the cheapest award class. You might be able to find 2 in the cheapest award class and 2 at double points on some flights. You'll need Avios to do this. Most accurate results will be through Qatar's website. Aggregators like seats.aero can find what's made available to...

It's not all that different for the premium cabins. The tricky part is it melds together fare classes that are available for request for WP & P1, so isn't the best guide for WP.

Outside of very special exceptions (which yours is not), Qantas has no ability to request the release of award seats on other airlines.

Some details about Hyatt points sales are here: Buy World Of Hyatt Points With A 20% Discount (1.92 Cents Per Point)

Points, especially Hyatt points, are extremely valuable for low end properties in the US. Had plenty of stays at 3,500 points/night.

Which NAB also now offer in their own rewards cards. That seems to be where the market is moving. It must be profitable for banks to offer no FX if you commit to using it pretty much all the time, not casually like you were able to with the Coles MC. You're right, it didn't have no fx — only...

Who else is offering a comparable product (no AF, points earning, no FX fee)? Pretty much no one. You have no where to go. That's why NAB bought them — to eliminate a competitor.

And you pay 1c/pt for your Qantas points through that method, thus proving my point ;)

Yes, that's normal. Recon numbers for all US CC companies are here: Credit Card Reconsideration Line Telephone Numbers - Doctor Of Credit

You're referring to a combination of factors that, taken together, would apply to, at most, 1% of the Australian population. I'm talking about the 99%. (And that 0.5% discount on your mortgage is another variation of the Aldi example.)

Disagree. 1. You are paying 1c/pt for points attained through WW. 2. A typical Qantas-earning card (eg ANZ Plat/Black, NAB Signature/Premium) requires over $30-40,000 before you break even on the annual fee at 1c/pt after the first year. Before the break even point, you are paying more than...

My comments were aimed at broad swathe of regular users not the 0.01% of power users on here. As I said: 'Unless you're prepared to spend lots of time researching the ins and outs of classic awards and dealing with all the difficulties of finding them'. 99.99% of Qantas members were never...

Not sure what they did. All I meant to signal is that this year Amex have been increasingly flagging people for income verification at the card application stage. If you're unlucky enough to get flagged, there's no way around it — you have to submit the docs they want or you won't get approved.

Amex randomly ask people for income verification on new applications. Been seeing a lot of data points of people being hit with it this year, including people with longstanding Amex relationships. Only pattern I've been able to discern from the cohort of existing Amex customers is that you're...

For now.