Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[nickfromeastryde]

I had a similar experience with the distance calculations today.
I was trying to get the last couple of sectors of a OWA booked, knowing that I was running very close to the bone on remaining mileage.
I couldn’t get the exact sectors I wanted, but was offered an acceptable alternative. As I’ve been trying to complete this Itinerary for about 3 weeks (waiting for @#$&*% Cathay to release some award seats...) I decided to grab the plan B on offer.
The csa finished off her tasks, took the credit card details, etc., and we finished the call.
Then I thought: Oh Dear (or words to that effect), that different routing might have taken me over the mileage - I hope this goes through OK.
I have calculated out all the sectors, including a few land sectors, using the distances (in Km) provided by both GCM and OneWorld. Both methods gave me totals about 500Km (~1%) too many.

But I hope I’m right in believing that the Itinerary is OK:
* I’ve received an updated itinerary, including the new sectors, with a brand new e-ticket number;
* The Points have been deducted from my QFF account (including the change fee points); and
* The fines & taxes have hit my credit card account.

Am I OK, or do I need to worry a bit more?

I think we are both at the same point but e-ticket makes me confident all is well

Though I do not intend on making any changes from this point on

 

[Captain Halliday]

E-ticket means you’re all good IME.

 

[HTG2016]

Planning on my first RTW trips with qantas points in J . Have been reading somewhere about you can actually book 2 small trip instead of one but look like qantas doesnt allow me to come back to AU after first departure .

Looking to book a trip to Asia first and 6 months after that another return to US or EU as long as it under 35,000 miles requirement

1. SYD-SIN-SYD
2. SYD-ADL-DOH-LHR return .

 

[Aussiejosh]

Planning on my first RTW trips with qantas points in J . Have been reading somewhere about you can actually book 2 small trip instead of one but look like qantas doesnt allow me to come back to AU after first departure .

Looking to book a trip to Asia first and 6 months after that another return to US or EU as long as it under 35,000 miles requirement

1. SYD-SIN-SYD
2. SYD-ADL-DOH-LHR return .

You have to start your RTW trip overseas if you want to combine 2 trips. So for example pay your own way to Singapore. Then base your trip starting in Singapore and Sydney is just a long duration stopover.

 

[tricky1337]

Sorry if this has been asked before but would anyone know if you can change the POS country of the ticket after the initial booking and if so, will it re-price taxes/surcharges with the new country as its POS?

I originally booked a ticket starting in Australia but was wondering if I removed the first flight (SYD-HKG), it would re-calculate taxes/surchages based on Hong Kong as the POS? The Qantas agent I spoke to told me it wouldn't so I didn't proceed with changing my flights but wanted to check if anyone here has done this before?

Total taxes/feul surcharges on my ticket originating from Australia was over $1400 pp so was trying to see if I could change the origin to HKG to significantly lower this.

 

[rock86]

Sorry if this has been asked before but would anyone know if you can change the POS country of the ticket after the initial booking and if so, will it re-price taxes/surcharges with the new country as its POS?

I originally booked a ticket starting in Australia but was wondering if I removed the first flight (SYD-HKG), it would re-calculate taxes/surchages based on Hong Kong as the POS? The Qantas agent I spoke to told me it wouldn't so I didn't proceed with changing my flights but wanted to check if anyone here has done this before?

Total taxes/feul surcharges on my ticket originating from Australia was over $1400 pp so was trying to see if I could change the origin to HKG to significantly lower this.

I thought if you wanted to change your country of origination, you have to cancel original booking and then re-book the entire itinerary from the new POS country.

 

[HTG2016]

You have to start your RTW trip overseas if you want to combine 2 trips. So for example pay your own way to Singapore. Then base your trip starting in Singapore and Sydney is just a long duration stopover.

Thanks for this , looking at return to AKL instead of SYD to make 2 trips .

Looking to book the following

SYD-SIN 9/8
the rest of the trip sometime next year ex : SIN - DOH - LHR May 2019 .

Once you start the first leg of your award in this case after SYD-SIN have completed , will Qantas allow you to changed the rest of the award in term of day time and route .

Thanks

 

[jetpack]

Once you start the first leg of your award in this case after SYD-SIN have completed , will Qantas allow you to changed the rest of the award in term of day time and route .

Day and time only, not route.

 

[HTG2016]

Thanks

Day and time only, not route.

Thanks alot for your help , i am slowly reading from pages 200 onward to plan for my first RTW trip .

Trip to SIN is fixed for AUG and already cost 65K with BA J . not allow to change route mean i will stuck with what i can find before the trip start

 

[Jacques Vert]

Day and time only, not route.

Thanks


Thanks alot for your help , i am slowly reading from pages 200 onward to plan for my first RTW trip .

Trip to SIN is fixed for AUG and already cost 65K with BA J . not allow to change route mean i will stuck with what i can find before the trip start

My understanding is that as well as the same route, you have to fly the same airline and same class. Finding award availability for the new date can be your biggest challenge.

 

[tricky1337]

I thought if you wanted to change your country of origination, you have to cancel original booking and then re-book the entire itinerary from the new POS country.

Thanks. Rookie error on my end when booking initially!

 

[blacknwhite]

Hi! We,my husband and I,are planning a 280,000 J RTW ticket and need help.
We are planning this so far
1.Melb-Sing-Doh-Zur(already booked)
2Fco-Mad-Eas
3Eas-Lhr-YYC
4 Lax-Hnl
5Hnl-Syd-Melb
My question is are no 4 and 5 possible and what is availability like for July and August next year 2019.
I have looked on QF and BA executive and cannot see avaibility.How do and if I can,look on the AA.com site
Thanking you in advance

 

[knobbs]

Hi! We,my husband and I,are planning a 280,000 J RTW ticket and need help.
We are planning this so far
1.Melb-Sing-Doh-Zur(already booked)
2Fco-Mad-Eas
3Eas-Lhr-YYC
4 Lax-Hnl
5Hnl-Syd-Melb
My question is are no 4 and 5 possible and what is availability like for July and August next year 2019.
I have looked on QF and BA executive and cannot see avaibility.How do and if I can,look on the AA.com site
Thanking you in advance

Hi BnW,

4 and 5 sure are possible, can either go straight from LAX to HNL or LAX-PHX-HNL. You can find all the one world routes to a destination with this interactive map oneworld Online Timetable

As you are looking for July August next year I would say you can't see them because they haven't been released yet. I am looking at booking June/July next year for some other flights and not all those are available yet.

 

[blacknwhite]

Hi BnW,

4 and 5 sure are possible, can either go straight from LAX to HNL or LAX-PHX-HNL. You can find all the one world routes to a destination with this interactive map oneworld Online Timetable

As you are looking for July August next year I would say you can't see them because they haven't been released yet. I am looking at booking June/July next year for some other flights and not all those are available yet.

Hi KN,

Thankyou for your reply.Yes it is early but I have been looking at other earlier dates(March/April/May) and don’t see availability at all.Havent thought about LAX-PHX-HNL and will certainly be investigating.Do I look at QF or AA website for best availability?
We did a RTW 2years ago and finding seats harder to find this time round.At the same time,I am rapt that I found QF/QR to Zurich.So looking forward to Qatar J class.

 

[jetpack]

J awards on QF's Honolulu route are known to be very difficult to get.

 

[jewles]

Hi KN,

Thankyou for your reply.Yes it is early but I have been looking at other earlier dates(March/April/May) and don’t see availability at all.Havent thought about LAX-PHX-HNL and will certainly be investigating.Do I look at QF or AA website for best availability?
We did a RTW 2years ago and finding seats harder to find this time round.At the same time,I am rapt that I found QF/QR to Zurich.So looking forward to Qatar J class.

Be very careful with how Qantas ticket your Qatar flights. I had the opposite route (Zurich to Perth) and when I added more flights to my itinerary Qantas lost the Qatar flight and Qatar essentially told Qantas bad luck. There seems to have been ongoing issues with Qatar not letting their seats go to ticketing. Qantas ended up having to send me to London with BA and then release seats on QF10 to get me to Perth.

 

[nickfromeastryde]

Be very careful with how Qantas ticket your Qatar flights. I had the opposite route (Zurich to Perth) and when I added more flights to my itinerary Qantas lost the Qatar flight and Qatar essentially told Qantas bad luck. There seems to have been ongoing issues with Qatar not letting their seats go to ticketing. Qantas ended up having to send me to London with BA and then release seats on QF10 to get me to Perth.

I think Qatar do take them back into inventory very quickly however I think it also is Qantas being very slow to reticket.

We had the same problem, made some changes but also had to break our ticket into separate PNR's due to not being able to get on the same JFK-MAD flight with IB

Mrs Nick had her ticket updated first, then mine was done and QF then processed my payment first, Mrs Nick last. Net result, my new ticket issued correctly, Mrs Nick with the 2 QR flights on our itinerary missing. Luckily I noticed it on the My Bookings page immediately and was able to escalate straight away which QF admitted made it much easier to get corrected though still took 2 days.

My suspicion that much of the blame lies with Qantas because more recently we added flights to a different 280K award and the same thing happened with already confirmed JAL flights dropping off the booking (no QR on the ticket this time). It had taken Qantas more than a week to re-issue the eTicket which I strongly believe was the cause of the problem.

 

[SteveLL]

Be very careful with how Qantas ticket your Qatar flights. I had the opposite route (Zurich to Perth) and when I added more flights to my itinerary Qantas lost the Qatar flight and Qatar essentially told Qantas bad luck. There seems to have been ongoing issues with Qatar not letting their seats go to ticketing. Qantas ended up having to send me to London with BA and then release seats on QF10 to get me to Perth.

happened to me too. my doha flights were dropped off when trying to add legs. Luckily i noticed it 3 days later myself and the award flights were still available. I was able to get the 10,000 booking fee refunded though after making a complaint. Overall only costing me 280,000 points each after changing the itinerary 2 twice...

 

[jewles]

Does anyone have any hints on the best way to get lounge access at LAX without status? We have two stopovers (4hrs45 and 3hrs15) and despite flying on AA first we don't seem to get lounge access as they are domestic flights.

 

[Aussiejosh]

Does anyone have any hints on the best way to get lounge access at LAX without status? We have two stopovers (4hrs45 and 3hrs15) and despite flying on AA first we don't seem to get lounge access as they are domestic flights.

If you have a international arrival or departure on the same day they will allow lounge access (canada excluded)