thanks for your comments guys,
so if you choose a itinerarry only has business class and only one first class, I assume you have to paythe full 420k points but get mostly business class?
obviously 24 hour stopovers are a bit pointless, so you have to return within 12 months? which means I could hypthetically do mel to say EU, go to say 3 countries, lets say France, Spain and greece, and then fly to LA travel around for 2 weeks, and then flight to NY, stay for 2 weeks, and then back to Aus?
thank you for your suggestion,
so your sugestion of SYD-SIN-HKG-USA-LHR-SIN-SYD for example
get on plane, spend say 1 week in sing, then say 5 days in HKG, then fly to usa, spend 2-4 weeks there, fly to uk, stay 1 week to 4 weeks, then back to singaore, have a short stopover and make my way back to Syd
is this what something as an example you recommend,
so for example, syd to eu return business class might cost $6k for example,
however if I do SYD-SIN-HKG-USA-LHR-SIN-SYD, it might be $1.5k+$0.7k+$3k+$4k+$4k+$1.5k=14.7k
so for the same amount of 280k points I cna get $6k vs $14.7k in value?
As above, is this how the points capping works? Once you meet the 2 OW non-QF airlines rule, the points are capped? Is that the only rule to apply before the points are capped? I only ask as booking flight by flight I can see my booking going over the 280,000 and not sure I have enough extra points to go far over 280,000 until the cap kicks in (such as if it only applies once you return to the port of origin).
Exactly, that's why I'm trying to get only QR flights, but the search results only return EK flights for some reason
My wife and I are ready to book our honeymoon business-class trip in September 2017
We're thinking of doing the following flights with these airlines:
SYD-SCL-EZE LATAM or QF+LATAM
EZE-GIG LATAM
GIG-GRU-JNB-CPT LATAM + BA(Comair)
JNB-DOH-SEZ QR
SEZ-DOH-SYD QR or QR+QF
Now if I search for classic rewards QR flights on Qantas.com.au, say JNB-SEZ, the booking engine only shows EK flights.
If try Multi-City and specifically search JNB-DOH-SEZ, I do get the first QR flight, but then it forces me to go DOH-DXB-SEZ with EK.
What do you guys think I should do?
Thanks!
Similar, yes, but don't forget you're adding in taxes on top of the points. Depending on the airlines you fly with this could be in excess of $1k.
You also need to be under 35k miles.
thank you my friend for your answers
is there a way to estimate taxes? does doing all these stop overs make the points value less?
I know that if you leave heathrow the taxes are high
last year Idid melb to france return with a astop over in malaysia and the taxes were like $1100 which was pretty bad,
if I did the suggested itinerary how much tax coudl I expect.
Iassume there is no way to avoid this ridiciulous tax.
generally speaking QF/BA/QR/IB have very high fuel surcharges, whereas CX/JL/AA/LA are on the opposite side.
You also have to keep in mind there are cheap and expensive airports on departure tax and etc.
To get an idea of taxes, you can just pretend to buy a J ticket on the airline website, normally there's a tax component given at some stage of the purchasing journey.
FYI my 280k J booking end up with less than $800 in tax, and the x2 QF segments (syd-sin, sin-bne) claims most of it I guess.
To confirm the rules as I understand it. I cannot transit from my original port of departure again, however, I can transit through another port up to two times, including a stopover port?
Not sure how this happened but I managed to stuff up my beautiful OW ticket. First I had Qatar take back my MEL-BCN flight, I got over that even though we now miss out on flying on Qatar. Our last leg is YVR-MEL and I saw that Qantas was flying YVR-SYD In July 2017 so I was watching for seats to be released. Now I realise that that route finishes on 22 July 2017 and I missed out on the availability. We couldn't find anything in J to get home from YVR. Arggh! As a desperate measure, I took CX from LAX-HKG-MEL which will mean buying a ticket from YVR to LAX and a night in a hotel. Late July next year seems totally booked out. Of course, I will keep checking but so angry with myself for not being more careful.
Does anyone here have any other ideas that would work better around 24 July? I only need one seat.
Not sure how this happened but I managed to stuff up my beautiful OW ticket. First I had Qatar take back my MEL-BCN flight, I got over that even though we now miss out on flying on Qatar. Our last leg is YVR-MEL and I saw that Qantas was flying YVR-SYD In July 2017 so I was watching for seats to be released. Now I realise that that route finishes on 22 July 2017 and I missed out on the availability. We couldn't find anything in J to get home from YVR. Arggh! As a desperate measure, I took CX from LAX-HKG-MEL which will mean buying a ticket from YVR to LAX and a night in a hotel. Late July next year seems totally booked out. Of course, I will keep checking but so angry with myself for not being more careful.
Does anyone here have any other ideas that would work better around 24 July? I only need one seat.
Not sure how this happened but I managed to stuff up my beautiful OW ticket. First I had Qatar take back my MEL-BCN flight, I got over that even though we now miss out on flying on Qatar. Our last leg is YVR-MEL and I saw that Qantas was flying YVR-SYD In July 2017 so I was watching for seats to be released. Now I realise that that route finishes on 22 July 2017 and I missed out on the availability. We couldn't find anything in J to get home from YVR. Arggh! As a desperate measure, I took CX from LAX-HKG-MEL which will mean buying a ticket from YVR to LAX and a night in a hotel. Late July next year seems totally booked out. Of course, I will keep checking but so angry with myself for not being more careful.
Does anyone here have any other ideas that would work better around 24 July? I only need one seat.
To confirm the rules as I understand it. I cannot transit from my original port of departure again, however, I can transit through another port up to two times, including a stopover port?
A long shot but, maybe try YVR-MIA-SCL-SYD? AA usually has good availability from MIA. Or even via DFW? The problem might be SCL-SYD on either LAN or QF. Have a look, never know.
As I said, long shot and may put you over the 35k mile limit.
YVR-LAX is only about 168 to 200 USD one way, with plenty of flights. So, even if you have to, you might be able to avoid the hotel night.
going via SCL is certainly a creative solution but I can't see any J availability in July at all. As far as NRT goes, I asked the agent to check and she said all options would come up but I don't really believe her. I can't seem to get into the BA site, it says the system is down. Is this true? It never seems to work for me
going via SCL is certainly a creative solution but I can't see any J availability in July at all. As far as NRT goes, I asked the agent to check and she said all options would come up but I don't really believe her. I can't seem to get into the BA site, it says the system is down. Is this true? It never seems to work for me
Not sure how this happened but I managed to stuff up my beautiful OW ticket. First I had Qatar take back my MEL-BCN flight, I got over that even though we now miss out on flying on Qatar. Our last leg is YVR-MEL and I saw that Qantas was flying YVR-SYD In July 2017 so I was watching for seats to be released. Now I realise that that route finishes on 22 July 2017 and I missed out on the availability. We couldn't find anything in J to get home from YVR. Arggh! As a desperate measure, I took CX from LAX-HKG-MEL which will mean buying a ticket from YVR to LAX and a night in a hotel. Late July next year seems totally booked out. Of course, I will keep checking but so angry with myself for not being more careful.
Does anyone here have any other ideas that would work better around 24 July? I only need one seat.
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going via SCL is certainly a creative solution but I can't see any J availability in July at all. As far as NRT goes, I asked the agent to check and she said all options would come up but I don't really believe her. I can't seem to get into the BA site, it says the system is down. Is this true? It never seems to work for me