not really - seems like there were CX seats being released today. Been trying to find a CX Award seat from MEL-HKG and nothing came up until this morning :/Yea ppl could just book those CX seats anytime. It's not like there's additional CX seats released by Qantas today.
The biggest thing released today by Qantas is the '500 error'.
I have been looking since 2-3 weeks ago with CX seats to SIN /HKG and there was an abundance at least for the times I have been booking. I booked a week ago and I noticed I have had the same ticketing issues everyone else had today. For me it really depended who you got on the phone because I called Qantas (luckily wait time was only 10 mins) about the ticketing issue and it wasn't until my third call that the lady on her end went through Cathay and got it ticketed right away. Wouldn't hurt for people to ask if they are already calling anyways to see if they can notify Cathay for the reward booking.
Definitely a lot of CX out of SYD for a couple of weeks. I helped a friend books some flights to Europe a fortnight ago using pts to HKG. They were also showing up in my searches for SYD-SIN and SYD-BKK etc. That‘s not to say CX haven’t released more - which would be an extraordinary coincidence!
I vaguely recall going to a job interview with them in mid-80's and wasn't successful and I knew some of the people interviewing. Obviously wasn't good enough.
This advice actually made my day! I managed to get on to a very experienced and helpful agent in CPT on my subsequent call who helped me get the F seats I wanted to add to a pre-existing booking, triple checked everything while I was on the phone and promised to get it sent for ticketing right away because he knew and understood legs would drop off otherwise. He called back twice in the following hours: once to say "rest assured, it's being processed" and again to say it had been re-ticketed. It's the level of service that should be the rule, not the exception. So the great reward seat bonanza worked in my favour today, no thanks to the website. Only thanks to reaching the one in 10 or one in 50 agents who actually have adequate skill, training and commitment to get it right. I know that there are literally thousands of people who will have had a very sour taste left in their mouth thanks to QF today
Why. the Americans and brits will be on their sites taking all the cream off the top as well. Just when you think QFF can't get any worse it proves you wrong again. What a fiasco I am reading here.
Qantas have said it they are releasing seats ' progressively', so expect to go through all this some other time again.
Sure does. Quite a sleight of hand it seems. Why am I not surprised? Am I unreasonable to think that more QF flights could mean it may be easier to get back to Australia any other way than via Jetstar (no use for an OWA) or via Timbuctoo and Jetstar?
Suva call centre agent I just spoke with seemed quite confident that more international seats would be released, citing the booking errors seen earlier today. Make of that what you will (if anything), but my optimism tells me we aren't quite done yet with this 'release'.
