Does anyone have experience with joining up domestic legs booked with points to paid international tickets in relation to delays etc?
Next Jan, my family and I will be travelling CBR-SYD, SYD-SIN-HEL return (with 24 hour stopovers in SIN each way). We've booked SYD-SIN-HEL on paid tickets as there is no points seats for the direct SIN-HEL leg in economy and I don't have quite enough points for 5 tickets anyway. However, there is Classic reward availability for CBR-SYD-CBR and the price difference to include the CBR-SYD legs on our main ticket was prohibitive.
I'm planning on allowing 3-4 hours in SYD for the outward leg, which should suffice (transferring between terminals is easy with adults, but we've not done it with kids before)?
My biggest concern is if the SIN-SYD flight arrives late (or early) on the return leg. Will Qantas shift us to a different SYD-CBR flight or will we lose the flights as 'no shows'? I'm hoping to check through to CBR when we check in in SIN. We're ticketed with QF flight numbers for the SIN-SYD leg via an agent, but will have a different ticket for the domestic connection, which I'll book directly so that I can use points.
If its relevant, I'm lifetime silver and have an outside chance of reaching Gold by next summer.
Next Jan, my family and I will be travelling CBR-SYD, SYD-SIN-HEL return (with 24 hour stopovers in SIN each way). We've booked SYD-SIN-HEL on paid tickets as there is no points seats for the direct SIN-HEL leg in economy and I don't have quite enough points for 5 tickets anyway. However, there is Classic reward availability for CBR-SYD-CBR and the price difference to include the CBR-SYD legs on our main ticket was prohibitive.
I'm planning on allowing 3-4 hours in SYD for the outward leg, which should suffice (transferring between terminals is easy with adults, but we've not done it with kids before)?
My biggest concern is if the SIN-SYD flight arrives late (or early) on the return leg. Will Qantas shift us to a different SYD-CBR flight or will we lose the flights as 'no shows'? I'm hoping to check through to CBR when we check in in SIN. We're ticketed with QF flight numbers for the SIN-SYD leg via an agent, but will have a different ticket for the domestic connection, which I'll book directly so that I can use points.
If its relevant, I'm lifetime silver and have an outside chance of reaching Gold by next summer.
