Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[knasty]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

From experience earlier this year CX seem to open additional award availability T-7 and T-3 days. For one flight LHR-HKG they went from zero availability to six on T-3 for First award in Z class

 

[legroom]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

From experience earlier this year CX seem to open additional award availability T-7 and T-3 days. For one flight LHR-HKG they went from zero availability to six on T-3 for First award in Z class

NB Q:

When that happens, you just call QF to swap ?

Any points penalty ?

Thanks

 

[Janflyer]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Many thanks for the advice Vec and FlyChrisfly, will try again.

 

[DontGetMeStarted]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

NB Q:

When that happens, you just call QF to swap ?

Any points penalty ?

Thanks

I am Sure it would be a 5000 point penalty pp

 

[sarvowinner]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Follow up - while booking a domestic MASA, pointed out the problem to the CS (Norelle) who could not find any reference to the error message and offered to book the 140K without fee. My trip is SYD-xHKG-FCO VRN-xDME-LED DMExLHR-YYZ YYZ-JFK-BOS IAD-LAX-SYD - taxes around $960. Tried to avoid LHR but found that chuffing all over Europe to get CDG would cost over $1,200 in taxes plus a lot more flying.

Another followup
Mr SW decided since we were going to Russia, why not tick one off our bucket list - the Trans Siberian Railway. I was right up against the 35,000 mile limit but eventually was able to find dates & routes that fitted. Our itinerary now is SYD-xHKG-FCO VRN-DME BJS-xHKG-YYZ-LAX-SYD The CS spent a lot of time trying different options. This routing actually resulted in a tax refund of about $48 pp. When we finished he then mentioned the 3,500 point cost plus $80. I very half heartedly questioned the cost and he immediately removed the fee.

 

[nat000]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Hi. Is anyone able to give their advice on which business class would be better from LHR to MIA. Looks like a can choose AA57, AA39 or BA209. It looks like the BA flight is 747-400, but I'm not sure which type of 777 the AA39 and AA57 use. The business configuration looks pretty different between the 777-200 and 777-300er.
Also when I rang Qantas to check availability they couldn't see any seat availability for any dates for the AA57 flight, but plenty for the AA39.

 

[k_sheep]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Another followup
Mr SW decided since we were going to Russia, why not tick one off our bucket list - the Trans Siberian Railway.

I really must finish my TR on that trip!

 

[sarvowinner]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

I really must finish my TR on that trip!

Please - love to read it.

 

[k_sheep]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Please - love to read it.

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....tos/soviet-russia-report-trips-you-39538.html

Here's what I've got so far anyway. You can't rush these things

 

[Colrad]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Booked a oneworld J award today. Prepared mostly online, then booked over the phone, with the booking fee waived. Fines/charges of $1100.

CBR-SYD QF Y
SYD-NRT JL J
HND-HKG-ORD CX J
ORD-DCA AA Y
DCA-MIA-LIM AA Y/J
LIM-SCL LA J
SCL-AKL-SYD LA/QF J
SYD-CBR Y

I didn't maximise stops, sectors or miles, but it got me to where I wanted to be when I wanted to be there.

The QR website is a good place to select seats on all oneworld airlines (at least those in my itinerary), which the QF website wouldn't let me do.

Hi this is my first post, although I have taken full advantage of the great advice and tips from posters over the past 18 months or so. So thank you to all of you who have helped me to date. I was very interested by your comment about selecting seats on the QR site. Is it possible to search OW award seats on the QR site as a QFF member? And if so, how do I go about it?

Thanks in anticpation.

 

[sarvowinner]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Following on my SYD-xHKG-FCO VRN-DME BJS-xHKG-YYZ-xLAX-SYD 140k booking, my flights are with CX, S7 & AA with the final flight with QF. How do I go about getting seat allocation? I know I have to get different record locators for CX & AA but don't know how. Is it the same for S7?

 

[GCS]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Hi this is my first post, although I have taken full advantage of the great advice and tips from posters over the past 18 months or so. So thank you to all of you who have helped me to date. I was very interested by your comment about selecting seats on the QR site. Is it possible to search OW award seats on the QR site as a QFF member? And if so, how do I go about it?

Thanks in anticpation.

I suspect you would need to join the QR scheme (of which I am not a member) to search for award availability.

 

[Danger]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Following on my SYD-xHKG-FCO VRN-DME BJS-xHKG-YYZ-xLAX-SYD 140k booking, my flights are with CX, S7 & AA with the final flight with QF. How do I go about getting seat allocation? I know I have to get different record locators for CX & AA but don't know how. Is it the same for S7?

Certainly in the case of CX and AA, you can use the equivalent 'manage my booking' function on their respective websites to choose seats. The booking reference for QF and CX will be the same but you will need to call QF to get the booking reference for AA.

 

[Colrad]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

I suspect you would need to join the QR scheme (of which I am not a member) to search for award availability.

Thanks for your reply. I joined the QR Privilege Club and gave it a go, but it seems you have to lodge a request for
an award seat with OW partners, rather than search for availability as you can on the QF site. Never mind, back to QF's constantly crashing website it is.

 

[knasty]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Colrad you don't want to select a partner seat. In general the Oneworld airlines make their award availability open to all other Oneworld airlines. ie. If you see an award seat available on the QR program's website it should generally be bookable through another Oneworld airline's scheme. For this reason I use BA's website to give availability on most Oneworld airlines as it shows seats per class availability for Oneworld airline awards bookable through BA online, even though I'm actually looking to redeem Qantas or American Airlines miles - they all source the same inventory.

 

[Colrad]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Colrad you don't want to select a partner seat. In general the Oneworld airlines make their award availability open to all other Oneworld airlines. ie. If you see an award seat available on the QR program's website it should generally be bookable through another Oneworld airline's scheme. For this reason I use BA's website to give availability on most Oneworld airlines as it shows seats per class availability for Oneworld airline awards bookable through BA online, even though I'm actually looking to redeem Qantas or American Airlines miles - they all source the same inventory.

Thanks Knasty, appreciate your response. I have a truckload of QF points and am planning a European holiday for the family in Sept 14 or March 15 and just trying to work out the different combinations and routes to take advantage of the OW RTW J for 280k pp. As we are a family of five, I realise I will likely have to spread us across different carriers and possibly routes to get us to our various destinations, so being able to see the different OW inventories at the same time is really helpful. Do you know the best way to look at multiple carriers availability? For example, QF and CX fly to HK around the same time, if I could get 2 seats on one and 3 on the other on the same day, that is what I am trying to do. Alternatively, I could just call QF and ask them to put it all together, but that would spoil my fun somewhat.

 

[sergeyvzn]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

Thanks Knasty, appreciate your response. I have a truckload of QF points and am planning a European holiday for the family in Sept 14 or March 15 and just trying to work out the different combinations and routes to take advantage of the OW RTW J for 280k pp. As we are a family of five, I realise I will likely have to spread us across different carriers and possibly routes to get us to our various destinations, so being able to see the different OW inventories at the same time is really helpful. Do you know the best way to look at multiple carriers availability? For example, QF and CX fly to HK around the same time, if I could get 2 seats on one and 3 on the other on the same day, that is what I am trying to do. Alternatively, I could just call QF and ask them to put it all together, but that would spoil my fun somewhat.

The best way is certainly on QF website, make sure you search for "classic awards" and tick the box "flexible dates". On any particular date between a pair of cities you will see all availability offered by all oneworld carriers flying the route, both direct and indirect (with a rare exception like for example JAL)

 

[Colrad]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

The best way is certainly on QF website, make sure you search for "classic awards" and tick the box "flexible dates". On any particular date between a pair of cities you will see all availability offered by all oneworld carriers flying the route, both direct and indirect (with a rare exception like for example JAL)

Thanks sergevyn, certainly seems to be the best option. Forcing connections also makes a huge difference (I recently discovered). What is it with JAL? One of the things we are considering is starting in Japan and then onto Europe, but with only one QF flight a day from SYD to NRT it's very hard to find award seats in J, no matter how far out. I know that JAL flies direct from SIN to NRT, and there are plenty of seats from MEL to SIN, but then I can't see the connections on to NRT. Any idea where I can find JAL avalability?

 

[knasty]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

BA Executive Club website. Free to join. Gives JAL availability (amongst considerable number of others) and number of available award seats per class on each flight. I was just playing around with to/from Japan actually. Most flights will have none or one seat in business class. Then you get random results like one flight I saw had 7 seats in First available...

 

[Colrad]

re: "oneworld" award (140K/280K/420K) Planning - The Definitive Thread

BA Executive Club website. Free to join. Gives JAL availability (amongst considerable number of others) and number of available award seats per class on each flight. I was just playing around with to/from Japan actually. Most flights will have none or one seat in business class. Then you get random results like one flight I saw had 7 seats in First available...

Thank you so much. That is incredibly helpful. Will sign up right away and start searching.