So here is an example of why someone would have to call for help. And no I am not an idiot - I regularly book flights on line, including multi-city flights.
This shot shows what happens when I try to book a 6 flight multi-city CBR-SYD-DXB-ZRH-DXB-SYD-CBR for December/January.
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But if I drop the CBR-SYD- CBR legs, it works
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Now I've done a lot of looking at this, just in case it had a dummy spit because of the early departure at 0600 out of Sydney meaning that there are no connections from Canberra at that time of the day. However, there was a choice of other flights leaving later in the day, so I had a look at some of those, and then when I clicked on the one I thought I might prefer, this is what happened.
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For all sorts of reasons, I actually want my international connecting legs to be on the same ticket. So the only way I am going to be able to make that happen seems to be to call the Platinum Priority Line and wait 2 hrs+ to spend more that $17,000 on air fares with Qantas. What the actual????
And then to have it insinuated by Stephanie Tully that this is only happening because I am stupid or technologically challenged or something. That just takes the cake of disillusionment.
Mr Seat 0A and I have over 3 million points to use, and we are both LTG and I am currently a Platinum. I'd use the points to book flights, but I could not get business points seats for this route (practically never can, actually, seems like the Qantas-Emirates relationship is very bad), or for my February trip to Japan, so have had to pay for them. So all up, those 2 revenue trips are worth well over $26,000 to Qantas. Lucky I have my travel budget from 2020, 2021 and most of 2022 untouched to spend up.
They seem to have me captive because of the number of points I want to use, and I want to have status when I do use them. I am open to practical suggestions for alternatives - noting that VA just announced great domestic business class fares, a new VIP tier which is good for my domestic work travel. But I think I read that VA is not in *Alliance any more which makes it hard because most of my status earning flights will be overseas for self funded leisure and I really want to have status for those trips as we get older and the travel environment gets more uncertain, because I always (previously) felt well cared for as a Platinum and even sometimes a P1 with Qantas - although maybe that is an old paradigm as status really does not seem to amount to much at all. Arghhh. Not happy Stephanie.
