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[_TheTraveller_]

Fair points, but it should be noted that, post COVID, WPs don't have any advantages over other QFF members in terms of award availability now that T-365 releases, in practice, no longer happen for the most part (apart from award release requests, which I already mentioned).

Do SG/WP not see more standard availability outside of T-365? I believe that's still the case?

 

[levelnine]

Do SG/WP not see more standard availability outside of T-365? I believe that's still the case?

They have theoretical access to seats before lower tier members, but in practice it now means nothing — Qantas have largely stopped releasing award seats at T-365, especially in premium cabins on long haul routes.

 

[_TheTraveller_]

They have theoretical access to seats before lower tier members, but in practice it now means nothing — Qantas have largely stopped releasing award seats at T-365, especially in premium cabins on long haul routes.

I don't mean at T-365 but rather during day to day searches. I have friends who have no status and I can see more availability than them when we're doing random searches. This was before I was P1.

 

[SYD]

They have theoretical access to seats before lower tier members, but in practice it now means nothing — Qantas have largely stopped releasing award seats at T-365, especially in premium cabins on long haul routes.

For premium seats on QFi.

They do release seats in whY (but who wants those?) Well actually a lot of QFF with kids etc…

Also, domestic from what I can tell has had no real change on CR seats availability. They make up a fair proportion of the “5 million” CR seats…

 

[levelnine]

I don't mean at T-365 but rather during day to day searches. I have friends who have no status and I can see more availability than them when we're doing random searches. This was before I was P1.

I've never seen that. But I haven't done any extensive A/B testing, so couldn't rule it out. If it does occur, I think it's rare as you don't read about it occurring very often (at all?!).