I'm not sure if many others are in this position but i have 4 award bookings on the go - three being lengthy OWAs and all international .
Hardly a week goes by that there is not a change usually related to itinerary changes associated with the latest Covid crisis . Mostly these are reparable by QF if their metal involved but often not so is another airline.
I am dreading the arrival of February 2022 when points are levied for changes .
I understand that if changes are not of my doing, then it should be free but sometimes you have to argue the toss .
Sometimes one itinerary change means changes further further the itinerary which , because of lack of initial availability , had to be done at a later date - here in the past i had to fight not to have to pay the points charges.
A good example is an itinerary next september - my inital ticketed flights, Cascablanca to LHR (then to Iceland) were cancelled by Royal Air Maroc . I was then rebooked Cascablanca to Madrid to Amsterdam to Helsinki then to Iceland. A week or so later , the HEL-KEF was cancelled and i needed to find a way via LHR- the only other way to get to KEF. No award seats economy or business were available for 3 days in a row so I put that part of the itinerary on hold in the hope some thing came up .
It looks like I may have to cancel the Iceland side trip - sure I could pay for the BA LHR-KEL for the two of us but i am hopeful that something will come up.
Well it did but option was a connection LGW to LHR which because, there is only one flight per day on BA to Iceland , there would be a longer than than 24 hour delay and hence that would count as a stopover ( out of the maximum five allowed)
Some of the later changes required secondary to the above initial RAM change have occurred several months later - I may be forced to to pay points for this kind of thing come March 2022. Lets hope QFF keep thorough records .
I use this example of how complex award booking is at the moment and appears likely to be staying that way post February 28 next year.
I hope QFF shows further consideration for its points holders and extends the points free changes further into 2022.
