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VA does not have a multi-city booking tool for international.

Not even close. VA can't sell Premium Economy or First at all. Remember for codeshares VA offers a minimum of Choice fares...the equivalent of Lite fares, which often appear for sale on the SQ website (e.g. Economy Lite), will not be available as VA codeshare...hence the perception that the...

I don't think it's VA doing the limiting...whatever allocation was made available from SQ for the codeshare has sold out. You can't book the return leg as VA because all VA codeshare tickets must originate in Australia. There aren't workarounds for what you want.

No, those are A350s.

OK. Well in either case you won't get lounge access at DUB. Status will get you additional checked bag, priority check in, priority boarding etc. on UA. You'll get none of that on AC.

All. UA is also the only partner that will give you 100% platinum bonus without needing a VA flight number. But how could you fly United from DUB to YYZ??? Do you mean going via EWR first?

Well SQ calls this "regional"...to everyone else its a long haul business class product. It looks like it would work better for me....I don't need a 28" wide seat....that width is what causes the other issues with SQ's long haul designs.

I can't claim they're the worst...but versus expectations, I absolutely hate the business class seats on SQ A380. I would take the older product on their 777 and long haul A350 before it any day. The main issue is just as a seat and a bed it is ridiculously hard and unyielding. I found it...

Try an online travel agent...they can happily do multicity on VA flight numbers.

Nope. The US carriers are typically very good about not having bogus surcharges on awards (BA's surcharges being a notable exception for AA). Here's what AA will charge for IST-DOH-BNE on QR. Yes, that's USD95!

Your last example looks like the VA (QR pretending to be VA flight)...not QR as the marketing carrier. The VA flights are not affected by this. It's not an IST specific problem. Spot the difference (I get what you're saying about the numbers not adding up though).

You have a refundable ticket...so per their T&Cs, you should be eligible for a refund of the preferred seat fee. I doubt that moving to a free seat would trigger a refund. The question is whether the refund would be automated or you'd need to contact UA after the VA ticket is cancelled.

18 months ago the rule would have been 1 guest only inclusive of children...so you were lucky then. The recent (ish) change was that for QR lounge access platinum now gets 1 adult + 1 child guest.

The real tell is that there is zero availability in the coming few days even though the Polaris cabins are very undersold...in the "olden days" there would've been loads of reward seats available.

Reward flights on partner airlines are never VA coded. Was this one not a rewards flight?

It is possible to coerce the VA website into doing stuff...although not sure if its a good idea or if it will address your seat selection issue.

To be honest I think Aus duty free prices often seem to be lower than elsewhere.

But this is exactly what United HASN'T been doing, since around August.

It would have no issues with domestic flights...not even close.

...is the key point...there is none MEL-SIN. That was also true for SYD-SIN when this thread first kicked off...so hopefully things are improving.