Article: How to Calculate the Qantas Points Needed for Any Classic Reward

[AFF Editor]

How to Calculate the Cost of Any Qantas Classic Reward Booking is an article written by the AFF editorial team:

How to Calculate the Cost of Any Qantas Classic Reward Booking

Want to know how many Qantas points you need to book a flight? Find out what determines the cost of Classic Rewards and how to work out the cost of any itinerary yourself.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

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[Clayton]

Any ideas how to guess the cash component, particularly on the more egregious airlines/routes?

 

[Bolt]

I have a private database on all of the cash components, including carrier charges and taxes. I'm not aware of a sytematic approach to extract this information, and it does change from time to time. However, this information can be checked by looking it up per route. That is, if you can find availability. I will share a few insights, however.

There are a few notable carriers which charge outrageously expensive carrier charges for QANTAS Frequent Flyer members. Those are Qatar (maybe because of the bad relationship since being denied routes to Australia) and Emirates. In my opinion, the value is so bad that it's pointless to book these carriers.

Another one to consider is Jetstar's carrier charges from coughet to Sydney in economy is $95 one-way. Jetstar's Bangkok to Melbourne in economy is $85 one-way. That really puts a dampener on value.

On QANTAS, SYD-DFW or PER-LHR are $140 in carrier charges in economy one-way. That's if you're somehow flexible enough, and can even find availability almost a year in advance.

I wouldn't recommend mixing carriers, if you can avoid it. It's usually terrible value.

 

[gethsemene]

How about calculating domestic sectors? Is there a hard and fast rule on this?

 

[Bolt]

How about calculating domestic sectors? Is there a hard and fast rule on this?

If you have more than one domestic sector, it's not simply a matter of adding the carrier charges and taxes of the components together. It's actually slightly less than the combined amount. I'm not sure what the formula is to working this out, but would be interesting to know.