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Thanks for the very comprehensive reply Mr Roo. Very much a journey of discovery for me it has been thus far. I have found the QANTAS "Where I can go" website quite helpful when you say 'classic only', one way, premium classes - as it can look out over a whole year and the whole world and...

Thanks for that Doing a bit of testing with seats.aero I am getting some weird results This is what seats says is available for SFO -> SYD on the 29th Oct this year vs what the QANTAS booking engine says. Note that the booking engine does agree there is a economy seat available for 51,200...

I have a few questions if I may 1) I am planning a multi-city award trip in 3 parts Syd -> Rome on Emirates London -> Helsinki -> Bangkok on Finnair Bangkok -> Syd, undetermined For an award booking is it better to put all 3 legs on one ticket, or break them into 3? Keeping in mind QANTAS has...

Good to know, thanks

Thanks Matt The next challenge is I am penciling in a 1st class points trip to Europe next year (mainly on Emirates) For insurance the T&Cs say you have to pay all the charges on your CC and/or any points need to come from points you earnt on that card At 493,000 points round trip that is...

Cheers Matt The Ts&Cs require you to do the booking itself through them. Good to know you you managed to ignore it. When I talk to them again I will ask they put the above method in writing, would suck to buy a non-refundable fare and then have them point to the Ts&Cs and say "to bad". After...

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I, however, have not yet got those 150,000 points yet

Well I took the plunge and signed up - simply on the basis that the 150,000 points were worth the $1,200 to me. Thus far the experience has been farcical Since I had the card anyway and was unlikely to be booking 2 premium trips in the next 12 months I thought I would the 10% discount for a...

One thing to keep in mind is that selling points is income for QANTAS, while providing rewards are a cost. Their accountants want to maximize their return, so they will try and provide only "sufficient" seats to keep people buying points. This is why an 'any flight' reward is so expensive in...

Thanks Looks like I have plenty of reading to do

What I though I was going to read was specifically how you managed to find these flights to book, especially the premium class flights. As per the comment "I am happy to explain how this works" in the article. But instead it was an explanation of "how you can benefit from working out how to...

Still works taking this approach (incognito) in Chrome on Windows (August 16th)

Well I can also go in Oct next year. Was thinking they may be happy to release seats of flights where the seats are not selling closer to the date of departure. But expect I will learn in time. My Platinum runs out at the end of October and there is no way it will be renewed, so I need to make...

Splendid, thanks for the feedback I am similarly happy to leave from any Australian locations and fly to basically anywhere in Europe. They did want specific days and flight though when I rang. I presume they make this deliberately a bit 'mysterious' so they can't be held to anything and they...

Thanks Fiona Don't know where he was based, seemed rude to ask. Had sufficient accent that I did not catch his name, but seemed quite familiar with the process. One of the thing is that when you are working with a black box, people (this was tested on Pigeons but also applies to people)...

Just called QANTAS to s3ee about releasing an A or I Sydney to Heathrow return Out April 21st (I3 on QF1), back June 1st (I9 on QF2) Declined A few bits of advice the chap on the premium desk gave: 1) Only request 1 flight pair at a time 2) If you are declined straight away - that is it -...

Thanks I am a long standing member of Expert Flyer, and have used it to search for award fares often. Just did not realise it was possible to get As and Is converted (sometimes) Even my boss, who is a P1 and has been for years, didn’t know you could. I am supposed to fly back from bkk to...

Thanks Is this accessible by Platinum FF directly, or is it the part of the software the support staff use when you ring? I am a platinum myself, runs out Oct 31st with no chance of renewal, and would like to use some of my 600K points on International business bookings before it does. So...

What is this "Bot" that is being referred to here? Am slowly working my way through the 80 page of posts to try and work it out, but a quick explanation would be much appreciated Thanks Richard