Booking Adult FF seats but paying for a child

[bnroz]

Hi,

Im wondering if someone can answer this for me.

I am looking at booking a flight from Australia to USA next year for my family. I want to book me and my wife on Qantas Frequent Flyer points (return) as i have enough points... BUT i then want to book my 3 yr old child by paying for the fare (not using FF points). As i cant book this thru the Qantas website, cause i think you need to book an adult fare with a child, is there a way to do this? cause i will book the FF seats for me and my wife first then i will book my child on the same flight, paying for his seat.....

 

[straitman]

bnroz,

I suggest you ring QF and ask. At worst it should cost the 2500 point assisted booking penalty for your FF bookings and the phone booking fee.

 

[winfred]

What class are you trying to book?

 

[Travel Guru]

A Travel Agent can easily do that for you, they just advise your TKT #'s at time of ticketing and it will ticket at the child rate not unaccompanied child/adult rate.

TG

 

[Moody]

The systems aren't smart enough to link a child fare to an existing points ticket so you will have to cop the booking fee through an agent.

The other alternative is to book your wife and child on points. This seems to be expensive as you will loose the child discount (25%?), but you will save the booking fee and gain in non-transferable SC's . If that meant the difference between Silver and Gold then that would be another bonus.

 

[Travel Guru]

The systems aren't smart enough to link a child fare to an existing points ticket so you will have to cop the booking fee through an agent.

The other alternative is to book your wife and child on points. This seems to be expensive as you will loose the child discount (25%?), but you will save the booking fee and gain in non-transferable SC's . If that meant the difference between Silver and Gold then that would be another bonus.

Sorry, what booking fee are you referring too??

TG