Qantas to release thousands of Classic Reward seats in Y, PE, J, F on 24 Feb 2023 around 11am

[sudoer]

Since we're all talking about classic awards here - can someone remind me what the standard days in advance is for QF classic award seat inventory to be released? WP/WP1 is earlier than others, correct?

353 days for Gold and above.

 

[danzel]

Any guesses (or ideally, intel) on timing of next 'wave' of seat releases? I am eagerly awaiting QF3 SYD-AKL-JFK which appears to have zero reward seats released across the year even in Y.

 

[azza007]

I found a first class award on QF1 but there was a problem on the qantas site when it came to the cc details.
I did have a booking reference which has now disappeared.

 

[Uncharted6264]

A lot of nice availability for J thru to LAX in the later months of this year now, good to see. Unfortunately for me I don't know what my life looks like 6 months from now, would love some more closer fares, I know that's probably too much to ask for.

 

[Collosseum67]

I called and made a booking but they said ticketing will take 48 hrs, is this normal?!

 

[sudoer]

I called and made a booking but they said ticketing will take 48 hrs, is this normal?!

Very normal for Qantas ticketing to take weeks for their own flights if they're >6 months in the future.

 

[FlyingFiona]

Hahah so RJ.com says that I still need to pay and to proceed to payment page. If only it were that easy (stupid error 500)

booking dropped off my booking page while i was on hold trying to pay over the phone (so much for having until tomorrow to pay)

 

[maia200]

My Expert Flyer alerts for JNB-SYD came through late last night with multiple J available throughout August. Between 500 errors I managed to book our dates but this morning I noted that they'd all disappeared again (surely every seat, every date didn't sell overnight?) before the website completely borked it.

I was not able to get any of these flights- had the option of going BNE-PER-JNB but didn't take it as not sure what is happening with those PER flights. I might look some other time (like next week or next month) and take a chance....or ask for tickets to be made available. Possibly....its a bit too hard with all error messages as well.

 

[RooFlyer]

I've said this before - Qantas really need to have the performance of their sites tested. Doing nothing and pissing off their potential customers is STUPID!

don’t think Qantas would see it that way. The customers are still fighting over themselves to fill their planes and having their site crash means they’ll get nice headlines about how everyone’s falling over themselves to book the points seats as well. Just think- If everything went smoothly today, it’ll just be a non event.

At Mascot;

 

[Peekay]

Very normal for Qantas ticketing to take weeks for their own flights if they're >6 months in the future.

Further on this - is it normal for the booking to disappear entirely during this time?

I called over the phone and was able to pay for and confirm a booking that was stuck in limbo (couldn't click through payment online).

My credit card has been charged for the taxes but my points have not been deducted, however my fear is that the booking has now disappeared off the manage my bookings online..

Can someone allay my fears?!??
Ahhh

 

[fersea]

I found a first class award on QF1 but there was a problem on the qantas site when it came to the cc details.
I did have a booking reference which has now disappeared.

Have a look at your credit card site. Has your available balance gone down? If there is a transaction, the booking reference might even be in that.

 

[straitman]

don’t think Qantas would see it that way. The customers are still fighting over themselves to fill their planes and having their site crash means they’ll get nice headlines about how everyone’s falling over themselves to book the points seats as well. Just think- If everything went smoothly today, it’ll just be a non event.

At Mascot;

At the same time though they would be frustrating many who are fence sitting on their thoughts about Qantas. I personally believe that many people would be much happier if they did a staggered release using a system that actually worked.

 

[azza007]

Have a look at your credit card site. Has your available balance gone down? If there is a transaction, the booking reference might even be in that.

Nope

 

[devlin]

I managed to get a MEL-LHR on CX for September, only got through doing a one-way purchase as the return option kept throwing up the 500 error.

Not the ideal QF, but I'm grateful to have gotten anything tbh.

Found a business fare on QF that was added a short time later, so called up and got it changed. Now the nervous wait for the e-ticket to be reissued!
Was able to get through to call centre in less than 20 minutes.

 

[Must...Fly!]

"We are unable to confirm your selected flights. Select ‘Start over’ and choose alternative flights. (15079 - 23951 - 421)"

Guessing this is some form of phantom availability?

 

[Kendall Roy]

Anyone observed additional seats on BNE/MEL/SYD-HND routes?

 

[straitman]

We’re aware some customers are experiencing errors when searching for flights and are working on this as a priority. In the meantime, please continue to refresh your browser. Our contact centres are experiencing long wait times due to this increased demand. If not urgent we encourage you to contact us online or at another time.

Amazing IMHO.

 

[SydneySwan]

"We are unable to confirm your selected flights. Select ‘Start over’ and choose alternative flights. (15079 - 23951 - 421)"

Guessing this is some form of phantom availability?

No those codes mean p--- off I am busy.

 

[ShrinkWrapped]

Anyone observed additional seats on BNE/MEL/SYD-HND routes?

I've spent all afternoon looking, I haven't noticed any. most of the seats flagged are all JQ, but I'm looking Nov/Dec

 

[MikeG]

don’t think Qantas would see it that way. The customers are still fighting over themselves to fill their planes and having their site crash means they’ll get nice headlines about how everyone’s falling over themselves to book the points seats as well. Just think- If everything went smoothly today, it’ll just be a non event.

At Mascot;

If I had $50k burning a hole in my pocket and wanted to book flights, I'd think of Qantas and look elsewhere as I value my time. Qantas seems to focus on business customers who don't even use their website, but rather engage travel agents to book these flights via the back-end systems.

Qantas has cost me so much of my time, I am now booking virgin for business-related flights as I
really don't trust their competence if they can't handle a simple website and booking system. The sooner the rest of the business world follows this the sooner Qantas will wake up and reap what they have sewed. Virgin Business Class is better than Qantas anyway IMHO. And wit international, Qatar, British Airways and many more offer a better product.

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