China Airlines reward seats using Qantas points

[Ansett Nostalgic]

Sad news - I was hoping the cheap EY J redemptions on ICN-PRG would return.

 

[aspro2]

Ok, so answering my own earlier question about managing bookings... because I made a booking an hour ago!

• As reported by @jsoprano in July, you can now do successful seat selection during booking with QF.
• You can manage your booking on the QF site and make seat changes and add special meals
• You cannot access your booking via the CI website (as has been the case for a few years)
• You can access the booking via the CI app as long as you can divine what it thinks your first name is (often firstnamemiddlename, no space), however, you can't make any changes
• You can still make modifications on the soon-to-vanish Czech Airlines site (but right now it seems to be geoblocking some Australian or non-European IP addresses).

And it really is the case that CI availability is very thin compared to last year and the years since CI became available via QF. I was booking six months out, which while rarely rich with options has usually had a few J seats per week. This time all I could find was PY.

 

[AIRwin]

OK then...

Actually not OK then

 

[jsoprano]

Ok, so answering my own earlier question about managing bookings... because I made a booking an hour ago!

• As reported by @jsoprano in July, you can now do successful seat selection during booking with QF.
• You can manage your booking on the QF site and make seat changes and add special meals
• You cannot access your booking via the CI website (as has been the case for a few years)
• You can access the booking via the CI app as long as you can divine what it thinks your first name is (often firstnamemiddlename, no space), however, you can't make any changes
• You can still make modifications on the soon-to-vanish Czech Airlines site (but right now it seems to be geoblocking some Australian or non-European IP addresses).

And it really is the case that CI availability is very thin compared to last year and the years since CI became available via QF. I was booking six months out, which while rarely rich with options has usually had a few J seats per week. This time all I could find was PY.

So another data point re my CI J booking on QFF points that I made back in June (for two on MEL-TPE! Thank god I did it early):

• Tried the CI app and can open my booking (yay!) with QF booking reference and my name (I don't have a middle name so that made this part easy lol); it show my seats that I selected but cannot change seat assignment (says "unavailable" where the button for the seat map would be)
• In QF app, still no seat selection (greyed out), but also shows my selected seat numbers
• Now, I tried QF homepage MMB again just to make sure and ... lo and behold, I can pull up the seat map and select different seats! That definitely wasn't possible a few weeks ago.

This is confusing, but whatever. Just thought I'd share. Good luck everyone.

 

[AIRwin]

Now, I tried QF homepage MMB again just to make sure and ... lo and behold, I can pull up the seat map and select different seats! That definitely wasn't possible a few weeks ago.

Did the seat selection save successfully?

 

[xen0n33]

I think I went with the earlier combo of the Czech website for seats then the QF app for meals. I'm flying tonight (SYD-BNE-TPE-LHR) and everything has stuck per boarding passes. Noticed the meal choice made via QF is reflected in the CI app, but can't be changed fully in the CI app (by which I mean it only offers the 3 menu choices, no special meals).

Side note: I've been looking forward to this trip for a while: I love the look of their business cabins (that I've seen in photos/videos), so I'm hoping the rest of the experience matches!

 

[aspro2]

Did the seat selection save successfully?

Yes, when I tried it recently.