Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[pyramidforce]

Should have asked before I booked;

1. BA city flyer counts as oneworld for the purposes of 318k/455k points limit?
2. I booked all legs of my flight except return to Australia. What is the chance that, when I call to add a flight back to Australia, Manila call centre will nuke the whole booking and leave me selling sob stories to reward ticketing escalations?
Real numbers only.

 

[sap1l]

1. BA city flyer counts as oneworld for the purposes of 318k/455k points limit?

Yes.

2. I booked all legs of my flight except return to Australia. What is the chance that, when I call to add a flight back to Australia, Manila call centre will nuke the whole booking and leave me selling sob stories to reward ticketing escalations?

As long as you're careful and check your booking at every step of the way, you should be fine. Be specific about adding flights to an existing booking. If you keep your bookings (not the actual booking, but the list of all your bookings) up on the Qantas website and constantly refresh, you can catch any weirdness with booking changes before the operator hangs up.

IME the bigger issue is slow re-ticketing causing some carriers to drop you. I've never had an issue with an agent actually deleting my booking. What carriers are you on?

 

[pyramidforce]

Yes.

As long as you're careful and check your booking at every step of the way, you should be fine. Be specific about adding flights to an existing booking. If you keep your bookings (not the actual booking, but the list of all your bookings) up on the Qantas website and constantly refresh, you can catch any weirdness with booking changes before the operator hangs up.

IME the bigger issue is slow re-ticketing causing some carriers to drop you. I've never had an issue with an agent actually deleting my booking. What carriers are you on?

When I call, will make sure I say "adding" flights. Hopefully that works.

On BA and JL at the moment, including BA cityflyer.

Will probably get JL or QF back from Japan, will route anyway I can. If I'm lucky I'll somehow get JL first to SIN followed by some MH flights from SIN-MEL or SIN-SYD, but I know MH will drop flights if Qantas doesn't ticket.

EDIT: The itinerary actually starts in Ireland so I I have the first world problem of needing to call again at the end of the year to add a "free" flight back to Europe.

 

[sap1l]

On BA and JL at the moment, including BA cityflyer.

You should be fine - I haven't had a BA or JL flight drop yet...

I know MH will drop flights if Qantas doesn't ticket.

Officially, agents should immediately re-ticket if MH is on the ticket. In practice, I've found that the overseas ones usually don't. And yes, MH is pretty aggressive with dropping flights. In recent times I've had fairly good success with the rewards ticketing team reinstating dropped MH flights, but I wouldn't bank on it.

I have the first world problem of needing to call again at the end of the year to add a "free" flight back to Europe.

I'm guessing your itinerary starts next year, but noting in case that you can't add flights once you've taken the first leg.

 

[ffhound]

Question please: Would the following itinerary be possible using the Qantas 35k Oneworld award?

1. Mel-Sin (paid positioning flight)

One world award segments

2. Sin-LHR (first stopover in London)

3. Land segment LHR to AMS

4. AMS to SIN (second stopover in Singapore)

5. Sin to Mel ( third, very lengthy stopover in Melbourne)

6. Mel - NRT (Tokyo) (fourth stopover in Japan)

7. NRT (Tokyo) to Melbourne (end destination)

8. Notional land segment Mel-Sin

Adding up the miles = 6738 + 6738 + 3769 + 5089 + 5089 + 3769 = 31,192 miles. Also am I correct in having used 4 stopovers or is it in fact 5?

Thanks Peter

 

[Amanad78]

Question please: Would the following itinerary be possible using the Qantas 35k Oneworld award?

1. Mel-Sin (paid positioning flight)

One world award segments

2. Sin-LHR (first stopover in London)

3. Land segment LHR to AMS

4. AMS to SIN (second stopover in Singapore)

5. Sin to Mel ( third, very lengthy stopover in Melbourne)

6. Mel - NRT (Tokyo) (fourth stopover in Japan)

7. NRT (Tokyo) to Melbourne (end destination)

8. Notional land segment Mel-Sin

Adding up the miles = 6738 + 6738 + 3769 + 5089 + 5089 + 3769 = 31,192 miles. Also am I correct in having used 4 stopovers or is it in fact 5?

Thanks Peter

You won't be able to go back to Singapore if you start there, try Bankok or Kuala Lumpur as alternatives

 

[Mr H]

Not allowed. You cannot return to your country of origin and then leave again.

 

[ffhound]

Thanks for pointing out that I can''t return back to Singapore as it is my country of origin.

Tweaking the plan a little how about this?

1. Mel-Sin (paid positioning flight)

One world award segments

2. Sin-LHR (first stopover in London)

3. Land segment LHR to AMS

4. AMS to HKG (second stopover in Singapore)

5. HKG to Mel ( third, very lengthy stopover in Melbourne)

6. Mel - NRT (Tokyo) (fourth stopover in Japan)

7. NRT (Tokyo) to Melbourne (end destination)

8. Notional land segment Mel-Sin

Adding up the miles = 6738 + 217 (land segment) + 5761 + 4608 + 5089 + 5089 + 3769 = 31,271 miles. Also am I correct in having used 4 stopovers or is it in fact 5?

cheers Peter
ps I corrected for the missing land segment

 

[Mr H]

That should be ok and it looks like 4 stops. You will need to make sure the agent understands the second MEL is the end destination and doesn’t count as a second stop there.

If any of your legs uses connecting flights that will add to the mileage.

I should say how refreshing it is to see an itinerary set out so clearly. It makes it easy to check.