Oman Air earn rates on QF

[Kefci2000]

Has anyone heard advance notice of Oman earning rates to QFF?
Thinking of booking a J class return after 1/7/25 but only if earn rates are similar to CX etc
Would not want to spend the money and find QR earn rates

 

[justinbrett]

The earn rates should be static as per other partners. It only discriminates by route for competition (eg SYD-DOH) and since Oman don't fly to Australia that shouldn't be a factor.

The question is what fare classes are assigned to each category - for QR they are completely standard in J/F so if they match that for Oman it should be fine. MH gets its discrimination here.

It's actually contrary to popular belief, QF earn rates flying QR J/F is quite good, as long as you don't fly on the Australia-DOH services.

 

[jase05]

as long as you don't fly on the Australia-DOH services.

ME to Europe isn’t great either but QF seems to treat every partner poorly in that regard and it’s not just a QR thing. Obviously they want you flying on a QF codeshare with EK if possible

 

[justinbrett]

ME to Europe isn’t great either but QF seems to treat every partner poorly in that regard and it’s not just a QR thing. Obviously they want you flying on a QF codeshare with EK if possible

When I was living in the UAE I flew BA out of AUH, strangely that port doesn’t carry the DOH/DXB penalty (which is only 40 SC difference so not massive anyway).

MCT-LHR also earns at the higher rate so Oman should be fine unless QF changes it.

 

[SYD]

ME to Europe isn’t great either but QF seems to treat every partner poorly in that regard and it’s not just a QR thing. Obviously they want you flying on a QF codeshare with EK if possible

That was the whole point of “Simpler & Fairer” (TM), get rewarded for flying QF codes (not just EK). They even increased the earn on QF codes the more “flex” your the ticket. Except AA (positive) and MH (who don’t want to pay QF for miles earned, so SCs take a hit), pretty much all partners earn at 50% of the base QF SC earn to / from Oz and Asia / ME. Then about 2/3rds earn between Asia / ME - Europe.

Flying via Asia on a partner has been manageable because the shorter leg gets the 50% chop but the longer leg is better.

The East coast Oz coast ports to Europe via the ME look particularly bad because the longer flight gets the 50% chop and the shorter leg onto Europe gets the better earn but on a smaller amount…

But then you have a reasonably generous earn flying to / from PER and the ME…

Of course, QF could have left the earn rates the same, but doubled the thresholds for PS, SG, WP etc…and impose minimum SC earn on QF metal (oh, that’s sounds familiar)…