Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[Mr H]

Just in the early stages of scouting out availability for a 2023 trip and...US - South America availability is screwed now isn't

For South American itineraries you may be better using Star Alliance if you collect in any of their schemes.

 

[am0985]

For South American itineraries you may be better using Star Alliance if you collect in any of their schemes.

Yep I've got KrisFlyer.

There's some limited availability on ORD - GRU in United Polaris for only 55k KF (bargain for a 10hr flight!) so considering biting the bullet doing that for that particular segment.

 

[Lynda2475]

Also might be easier to find flights if you go in the other direction, go to UK first, as should be more choices from UK/EU into Brazil vs just AA from the USA. Or start in Brazil (you could fly via DOH) then go to UK from Brazil and then home from UK via the USA.

 

[QF029]

I'm on the phone with Qantas making 2 flight changes. All good until he says it can't be ticketed as my previous change a week ago (with the premium desk) is still not ticketed and I'll have to wait and call back.

I told him this is not acceptable and he gave me a plan B where they refund my taxes and recharge. He guarantees me that I won't lose flights or get a big bump in taxes (it should be about $70 different adding one more flight and changing another).

I'm very nervous as I wait on hold!

P.S. Qantas call-back feature worked but took 4 hours instead of the quoted 1-2 hours.

 

[jkcfc]

MEL-DOH-CMB-MLE (QR*/QR/UL) | Stop 1, 10 days​

MLE-DOH (QR) | Stop 2~ – 4 months​

DOH-DFW-CUN (QR*/AA) | Stop 3 – 2 weeks​

CUN-AUS (AA) | Stop 4 – 1 week​

AUS-DFW-HND-ITM (AA/JL/JL) | Stop 5 – 1 week​

NRT-MEL (JL) | End​

All J except for CMB-MLE & AUS-DFW both 1-1.5hr flights.
QR* = Q-suites

When you have most flights in J but then have 1 flight in X (CMB-MLE) in this case, will we still have lounge access at the airport before the economy flight?

 

[Mr H]

When you have most flights in J but then have 1 flight in X (CMB-MLE) in this case, will we still have lounge access at the airport before the economy flight?

Yes provided the flight from DOH takes more than five hours and the onward flight is the same day or before 6am the next morning.

On edit, the flight time on QR from DOH to CMB is 4.55 so that would imply no access. The rules are silent on a second short haul international flight so I don’t know whether access could be based on MEL - DOH, but you can read the rules to imply that you should. Technically you are travelling from the Melbourne flight to the Male flight and anything that happens in between is incidental. I guess it depends on the dragon but you might want to print out these rules and highlight the bits that are helpful to your cause.

Airport Lounges: oneworld Lounges & Airport Lounge Access

Enjoy airport lounge access at nearly 700 airport lounges worldwide through your oneworld Priority tier. Exceptions may apply.

www.oneworld.com

 

[Pom-DownUnder]

Yes provided the flight from DOH takes more than five hours and the onward flight is the same day or before 6am the next morning.

On edit, the flight time on QR from DOH to CMB is 4.55 so that would imply no access. The rules are silent on a second short haul international flight so I don’t know whether access could be based on MEL - DOH, but you can read the rules to imply that you should. Technically you are travelling from the Melbourne flight to the Male flight and anything that happens in between is incidental. I guess it depends on the dragon but you might want to print out these rules and highlight the bits that are helpful to your cause.

Airport Lounges: oneworld Lounges & Airport Lounge Access

Enjoy airport lounge access at nearly 700 airport lounges worldwide through your oneworld Priority tier. Exceptions may apply.

www.oneworld.com

"long as flight is same day" assuming thats arrival day at the airport you are connecting through? wondering if i have like 12 hours in DOH can I stay in the lounge the whole time assuming business tickets on both legs. Thanks.

 

[Mr H]

"long as flight is same day" assuming thats arrival day at the airport you are connecting through? wondering if i have like 12 hours in DOH can I stay in the lounge the whole time assuming business tickets on both legs. Thanks.

Yes you can because both your flight in and out of DOH are in business class. I don’t know DOH, but I once spent ten hours in the LH First Class Terminal in Frankfurt and time started to hang very heavy.

 

[Guvner]

Toughen up MrH, I once spent 10 hrs transiting at the old Kai Tak airport as a student coming back from CDG with no money (and I mean no access to any funds at all). No lounge access. "Slept" on a red plastic chair.
No food or drink until I got on the CX flight back to MEL.
The good old days...

 

[Noah Count]

I'm on the phone with Qantas making 2 flight changes. All good until he says it can't be ticketed as my previous change a week ago (with the premium desk) is still not ticketed and I'll have to wait and call back.

That is absolute rubbish, before Covid and all the free change rules I would happily let my changes remain in the manual queue if I knew I would need to make another change in the near future as it avoided paying the change fees once ticketed. The agents that QF seem to have at the moment have little or no idea.

 

[QF029]

That is absolute rubbish, before Covid and all the free change rules I would happily let my changes remain in the manual queue if I knew I would need to make another change in the near future as it avoided paying the change fees once ticketed. The agents that QF seem to have at the moment have little or no idea.

It was resolved but adding a flight with 49 GBP has increased my taxes by $220. The only other change was replacing BRU-LHR to CDG-LHR as a tag to depart to Australia.

The additional flight was LHR-CDG as I thought it would save a little bit of $$ and give more flexibility but I learned my lesson.

Is it possible that making a changes recalculates all taxes and perhaps fuel surcharges have gone up since I booked?

 

[Lynda2475]

Is it possible that making a changes recalculates all taxes and perhaps fuel surcharges have gone up since I booked?

I believe this is what has happened

 

[vetrade]

Is it possible that making a changes recalculates all taxes and perhaps fuel surcharges have gone up since I booked?

Correct. The re-calculation is affected by exchange rate movements as well as surcharge changes

 

[Captain Halliday]

Is it possible that making a changes recalculates all taxes and perhaps fuel surcharges have gone up since I booked?

Yes. Recalculated for every change.

There are some exceptions but I think they are mostly attributed to CSA shortcuts.

For example changing from the 0900 SYD-BNE to the 0800. CSAs may not bother repricing instances like this.

 

[QF029]

I should have gone with the Eurostar!

 

[Wolf creek]

Hi everyone I noticed some travellers are using one world classic rewards to get to Maldives.Thinking of maybe going there aswell what are the pitfalls?What is the best route using qantas one world partners from bne.

 

[Noah Count]

Is it possible that making a changes recalculates all taxes and perhaps fuel surcharges have gone up since I booked?

Each time a ticket is reissued the price is recalculated.

 

[Fil-Ski]

QF canceled my SYD-HND leg which was connecting to HND-JFK (JA). They have release a SYD-LAX seat on QF but they can’t get an award seat on AA for LAX-JFK/LGA.

I have tried multiple city connections on the Qantas website but I can’t get anything that works.

I see on the AA website that they had LAX-JFK award availability for AA members.

Can’t suggestions on the next course of action before I call the call center again?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

QF canceled my SYD-HND leg which was connecting to HND-JFK (JA). They have release a SYD-LAX seat on QF but they can’t get an award seat on AA for LAX-JFK/LGA.

I have tried multiple city connections on the Qantas website but I can’t get anything that works.

I see on the AA website that they had LAX-JFK award availability for AA members.

Can’t suggestions on the next course of action before I call the call center again?

Availability for AA members is likely different than for their partners such as QF. AA has a range of award pricing, partners only get access to the lowest standard price (the web specials are lower still, but only for AA members).

There are so many ways to get from New York to LAX…. via Dallas, Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami, charlotte, Philly, Washington (both airports), and so on. It might be a case of needing to do a multi city on Qantas looking for the two separate sectors.

I’d start by looking at AA availability, look for the cheapest awards and any connections, then try and map those acrosss to Qantas’ booking engine.

 

[levelnine]

Hi everyone I noticed some travellers are using one world classic rewards to get to Maldives.Thinking of maybe going there aswell what are the pitfalls?What is the best route using qantas one world partners from bne.

Via Colombo with Sri Lankan or via Doha with Qatar.

No real pitfalls except slim availability of award tickets out of Australia.