Booking an award flight on Malev ??

[justin23]

Hi i'm thinking the answer to this question is you can't, or need to call.

I've decided to book my next OS holiday myself. Travel agents are hopeless these days. I just jumped onto the Qantas site and found return airfares from CBR-FRA for less than the travel agent. But i want to go to Bucharest, which i can get to on Malev via Budapest. Fares seem cheap ($200) but thought I might try booking an award flight. Problem is I can do Frankfurt to Budapest, but not Franfurt to Bucharest (via Budapest).

This is probably normal, but i'd have thought i could book any flight as an award on the oneworld network......

 

[ryanbryan]

Same thing happened to me trying to book FRA-BEY (which isn't noted as a destination on the QF website) on Malev. I just called Qantas and they found it no worries. I guess they just only put the most common cities as bookable online.

 

[justin23]

Did they charge you a booking fee as well?

Given the cost of the flight, i may just pay for it seperately, although I think its 0.3 point per mile for discount economy!!
Not sure on my final itinerary right now anyway.

 

[ryanbryan]

No idea, as I didn't end up booking it. I imagine you could make a good case for not paying it, and the operator didn't mention I would have to.

The award was 22.5K points plus $170 in taxes. The full fare is $363. Not worth it to me...!