Re: Minor improvement to Qantas Award Booking engine.
Of course the most ideal situation is to auto-filter out the options which leave the "most significant sector" in the lowest class of service. (I assume there aren't any concrete heads out there that would seriously hand over a stack of points to get MEL-SYD in J but SYD-LAX in only Y or even W, so auto-filtering out these options would be fine).
It is, however, definitely an improvement. The light orange on white background might pose some readability issues for some people, but at least it also gives the information required (i.e. which leg is not in the class required).
Interestingly whilst playing around with the new search engine I can sometimes get options that are a "flip" of the problem, i.e. a connecting flight to international gateway in Y but the most significant sector out of the gateway in J. Obviously not as bad as the previous problem (though concerning that one can't get a J seat on that day for a connecting flight). Of course, these kinds of flights are also flagged with a ! with the correct information.
I know many people would disagree with me, but I give a thumbs up to QF for this change.