Qantas reward booking - paid but no ticket

[Mwenenzi]

Offish topic

No it's completely Qantas' fault here. They own both the agency who ticketed your flight (Qantas) and the airline who is operating your flight (JetStar Japan?)..

Qantas group does own the other non AU Jetstar's. Or a 51% majority shareholder. Qantas is a minority shareholder. Jetstar is a brand
Most international airlines are required to be "locally" owned for cross border govt traffic rights

Jetstar Japan - Wikipedia JL 46.7%
Jetstar Asia Airways - Wikipedia QF 49%

Jetstar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Qantas, through the Jetstar Group, also has stakes in sister airlines Jetstar Asia Airways and Jetstar Japan.

Jetstar Group​

In addition to owning 100% of Jetstar Airways in Australia (also operating in New Zealand), the Qantas Group owns varying stakes in other Jetstar-branded airlines in the Asia-Pacific region. These airlines represent a strategy to provide better growth for the Qantas Group by accessing the intra-Asia market:[62] exploiting both its faster growth and/or its under-penetration by low-cost airlines.

Qantas partners with local investors as both a means to overcome foreign ownership or traffic rights restrictions[63] and to keep the ventures "capital light", i.e. reduce the capital investment required by Qantas and keep assets such as aircraft off the Qantas balance sheet.[64][65]

 

[RichardMEL]

WP is not really guaranteed anything in this regard. I suspect these days this MAY b an offshoot of all the status extensions - the populations of elites is probably inflated and will be for the next year or so as the extensions run out. Not the only reason of course. Of course it used to be WP got BNE (as QF Premium used to be located) as a fairly regular basis, but HBA is much smaller unfortunately.