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). When booking, decided to dial it down to 36K (with commensurate increase in payment to $152.92). Add to that DSC and 5K points earned, not a bad net cost at all. 160 SC's, making me 15 SC's short of re-qualifying Gold.
One can only fall in love when the number of points entering one's account allows them to be able to expend on ASAs.
I'll have to rename this comment the "How do I change a JASA booking".Got to love JASA's. Booking a PER/BNE for 28th Nov and found one at 49K points at the right time (sadly, have to do the direct flight
(which will now re-qual me Gold rather than leaving me short).
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I'll have to rename this comment the "How do I change a JASA booking".
A client in ADL has thrown me an interesting conundrum. He wants to see me and the win/win for me would be to cut my PER trip by 1 day and do PER/ADL/BNE. It means a 6.50am PER/ADL flight (QF590) and QF656 ADL/BNE at 7.45pm (both of which are showing U availability). Timing is perfect for me and gets me more DSC's
Now how is it best to change my existing booking (as I've never had to do it before)? Do I cancel and have points + $$ refunded, or can I change existing booking (is via phone the only way with an award booking ?). I have 63K points in my account and I need 84,308 points to secure PER/ADL and ADL/PER sectors (without dialling up at all). But if the dial up is too much (looks like being $188.87 which is acceptable), I'll have to wait for the 36K points to come back. Help?? I'd rather know my options before I ring QF in case I get a clueless CSA at the other end of the phone.
From the looks of it, that exact flight pairing above doesn't show as an option, but I'm sure I can book the earlier ADL/BNE flight, then as soon as the booking is confirmed, change it (assuming U is still available on the later flight).
From the looks of the reloc, if I press "cancel", the $$ transform to a voucher. What is the time taken to refund the points? I doubt pressing "change" will give me the ability to make multi city booking.
On the phone now discussing the options with a most officious CSA. She can't change the number of points, so any fare difference must be in $. Therefore the additional value is $277 (rather than me being able to use an additional ~48K points).
Considering leaving the existing booking and pushing out the date - this would give me my return flight from Ozfest. Then simply book the new flights and when they are confirmed, make the date change for the second sector (ADL/BNE) to my preferred flight number. This will leave me with no points in my account - for the 3rd time in its history
Back to earning them again.
P.S. Decided on the latter - new booking cost $80.49 and 60K points. Found that using Multi City, I could select the exact flight ADL/BNE and it priced it by rounding to 60K and auto calculating the additional $. Very happy with that outcome as it's 140 SC's (doubled to 280 SC's) and I get 5K in points back. Now to wait for my existing booking to re-appear. The reloc isn't working but the CSA sent me an unchanged itin??
my QFF account says
Not Happy QF
. Rang QF Res to find that notes on the file said "points refunded due to mis-quote". Needless to say, I informed the very patient Jill that it wasn't a mis-quote, it was an ASA. After some discussion with a Supervisor and FF team, they refunded all points to my account and $80.49 to my CC. [maybe that was the reason or the re-quote - a difference in $$ required in the booking)
It all depends on what fare classes are available on that specific flight. So if there are classic award seats available, then the ASA points cost is lowest. If there are no classic award seats available then the ASA points cost is somewhat proportional to the $$$ value of the fares being sold for the flight. If the flight is close to selling out, then there are generally only high cost seats available and those will be offered as ASA awards at high points cost.
Classic Awards are those that available for the fixed number of FF points based on the distance traveled. Any Seat Awards allow FF members to use points instead of purchasing a fare with real money. Classic Awards book into fare classes X (Economy), Z (Premium Economy), U (Business Class) and P (First Class). ASA can book into any valid fare class for the cabin being booked. So an ASA that books into X class is going to be the lowest cost, but can only be booked if there is X class availability on that particular flight. If there is no X class available, then the ASA could book into any valid and available economy fare class, so could be N, S, V, L, M, H, K, B , Y etc. Each of those booking/fare classes will sell for different $$$ amounts and hence will cost different numbers of FF points if booked as Any Seat Awards. A B or Y fare will likely be very expensive to purchase with $$$ and hence will be similarly expensive if using FF points.
Now to hope that they had released the seat and/or still had the U seat availability. Of course it wasn't on the initial JASA re-book, but I got the first sector and have chosen the earlier ADL/BNE flight (now to go back into the new booking and change it online). Cost was now 60K points and $225.67
