You can check the mileage on greatcirclemapper… it’s fairly accurate compared to the airlines’ distance measurements (maybe 3-4 miles out in some cases). That’ll clear up whether the error is distance or otherwise.
I have a BOS-HKG-SYD sector on CX at the end of May as part of a OWA. Unsure if it will actually happen.
CX is in big trouble.
CX is risky until HKG open up to tourists without quarantine. If CX cancel you can request QF open up seats on QF metal. It may not be easy dealing with the call centre. It is possible but likely to take a lot of time and effort.
Already enough experience with the call centre for this booking. It's the return segment for a trip I'm taking to move to the US at the end of this month, I'm not keen on screwing with the itinerary any more so taking my chances.
Can I ask where you are checking availabilty? thanks
Thanks for the heads up. Managed to snag 2 x J return on points in Oct 2022.
You will, in theory, have increased award availability on Qantas operated flights if you have higher status. But the same isn’t true for partner airlines. Lots of variables, but unless you are planning to fly qantas the difference between gold and platinum may not be worth your while.
QF multi city search, I tried a few different cities in Europe, some are available some days but not others.
10th call to overseas call centre on 6th July: did not check but accent sounds like South Africa. Agent asked every details for verification (passenger names, Qff number, flight date and destination ...)9th call to Fiji on Monday 4/7/22: 35 minutes waiting in queue, almost 3 hours total. Ticket issued. Additional tax is not charged yet.
Agent asked me to provide contact details and passengers in the booking for verification
I asked what is the status of my booking. She pulled up booking details and asked what is my update with the booking
To save time for both, i provided summary of previous 4 calls that noone can get ticket issued and additional tax charge authorisation on my credit card was dropped.
She contacted ticketing team without any excuse about booking is not imminent and could be fired if contacting ticketing team like one of previous agents.
She told me waiting for ticket team would be more than 1 hour and can she drop the call and call me back after she can get in touch with ticket team. I insisted that i'm happy to stay on hold no matter how many hours and previous agent never called me back.
About 2 hours waiting for ticket team, she could get a hold of ticket team and got ticket issued.
I received email with text "QANTAS E-TICKET ITINERARY AND RECEIPT". In the email, there is a section TAX INVOICE ISSUE DATE today with amount that still outstanding which was charged to my credit card 2 weeks ago but was dropped.
She said pdf booking should be sent to me within 24 hours.
I assume an automatic process needs to charge my credit card then send final pdf confirmation?
Credit card is still not charged for additional tax.
Refresh Checkmytrip 2 hours later and I can see E-ticket number for changed flights in second half of the booking which is the same number as first half that was already issued when i booked online originally.
Sounds like married segments to me
It looks like the MEL-DOH seats went very quickly but there is a separate CBRxMEL-DOH allocation that is still available. When QR J rewards seat are available you need to get in quick.
If I book it Id have to book MEL-CBR-DOH (via MEL again)-FCO.
No. They see the same as you see online
If you do go ahead with it, you might need to book the MEL-CBR sector on a separate PNR.
It looks like you’re right.
