QF now live for Aadvantage awards.

[drron]

I have just kept checking re QF sectors for next year and today-
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• Class for any available First Class seat provided the flight is not sold outNo travel embargo dates.

DepartureFrom:Sydney Kingsford Smith - SYDTo:Los Angeles International - LAX and AreaFlight Date:Thursday, February 7, 2013Miles Used:62,500Taxes and Carrier-Imposed Fees: $2.50 to $700.00 USD Per person


Award LegendTaxes and Carrier-Imposed Fees ApplyAward Details

• 37.5KEconomyMileSAAver
• 62.5KBusiness/FirstMileSAAver*
• 72.5KNotAvailable

* Valid for Business/First on flights with two classes of service where applicable and Business class on all other flights.
February 2013
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Requested: Thu Feb 7

• • SUNMONTUEWEDTHUFRISAT
  • 362.5K462.5K562.5K662.5K762.5K837.5K962.5K
• Sorry the graph wont print out for me but ther info there-but be careful most of the SYD-LAX awards are via HNL.

 

[Gold Member]

This is great news indeed. But there appears to be a few bugs in the award booking engine for QFi unfortunately. QFd is a piece of cake though and works a treat.

The best part about this is avoiding the AA BNE (Fiji) 'booking' fee!

 

[Must...Fly!]

Tried PER-AKL, seems to force a routing through BNE. Haven't bothered looking but a multi-city might fix that.

 

[Paddy55]

Brilliant if a little buggy.
Now, CX availability, please

 

[Paddy55]

Brilliant if a little buggy.
Now, CX availability, please

Actually I'll amend that.

Looking for SYD-LHR late May and AA offers only a couple of routes via BKK and NRT with overnight connections.
QF's web site shows classic awards on the more direct routes with straightforward connections in SIN and HKG, all still QF & BA

Some way to go to be really, really useful

 

[grussellt]

There's now an easy comparison of taxes/charges on each airline. DFW-SYD on QFF attracts charges of $US 385.15 but lucky AAdvantage members only have to pay $US 28.40 for the same flight. A real eye-opener (but watch out for the burnt stick).

 

[kempvet]

Great News, only 37,500 miles for QF12 and only 26 dollars tax, QF go suck eggs with your 48,000 miles and who knows what taxes and surcharges!
How about this one, 45,000 AA miles Port Macquarie to LED (St Petersburg) and $196 taxes - QF 84,000 miles and $586 taxes - go figure this one out!

 

[futaris]

And this system allows for AAdvantage holds online for 5 days.

 

[thehound]

Actually I'll amend that.

Looking for SYD-LHR late May and AA offers only a couple of routes via BKK and NRT with overnight connections.
QF's web site shows classic awards on the more direct routes with straightforward connections in SIN and HKG, all still QF & BA

Some way to go to be really, really useful

So in people's past experience, if it can be seen as an available classic award on the QFF website, can it be booked through AA? Ie is the AA online system only showing some of what can actually be booked?

 

[thehound]

Tried PER-AKL, seems to force a routing through BNE. Haven't bothered looking but a multi-city might fix that.

Searching multi-city will find you the flights you can see on Qantas, but unfortunately it charges you as two separate legs - 17,500pts x 2 :-( At least going through Brisbane only adds on another 1.5-2 hours, so not all bad.

 

[grussellt]

So in people's past experience, if it can be seen as an available classic award on the QFF website, can it be booked through AA? Ie is the AA online system only showing some of what can actually be booked?

As long as it's within the 330 day maximum permitted by AA. It's also worth looking on Awardnexus for some multi-city possibilities that don't show up on QFF (e.g. JL)

 

[aus_flyer]

The best part about this is avoiding the AA BNE (Fiji) 'booking' fee!

If you start the booking online (put it on hold) and then ring up to make changes (to get around it charging legs separately).... I wonder if you still pay the booking fee...??

 

[burrco]

Able to book QF10 TXL-LHR-MEL in F for late January - very painless.

 

[futaris]

At the date of this post:

Of the AAdvantage Airline partners, I've been able to see the following airlines online in AAdvantage Awards:

Alaska Airlines
American Airlines
Air Berlin
British Airways
Finnair
QANTAS

That leaves the following as offline:

Cathay Pacific
Iberia
JAL
LAN
Royal Jordanian
S7

Plus all the other non Oneworld partners:

Air Pacific
Air Tahiti Nui
Cape Air
El Al
Etihad Airways
Hawaiian Airlines
Jet Airways
JetBlue
Kingfisher Airlines
WestJet

Can anyone suggest otherwise?

 

[wombatcountry]

Actually, HA has been available for at least a few months, but you can only build an AAward ticket that starts from one of HA's gateways (so SYD-HNL-LAX can be ticketed as a single award, but CBR-BNE-HNL requires two).

 

[drron]

Yes you can.Simply put CBR-HNL and up it comes though the BNE option below was the last choice in 4 pages.hint-do not use multi city as then it wont come up as a single award-
37.5K

QF 962

7:10 PM
CBR

7:55 PM
BNE

Meal: Dinner
Aircraft: 73H	Booking Code: X
	Cabin: Economy

[TD="class: disabledtext"]Seat information not available
[/TD]

HA 444FRI FEB 15
Flight Details

6:35 PM
BNE

8:05 AM
HNL

Meal: Dinner Snack
Aircraft: 763	Booking Code: T
Total Travel Time: 33hr 55min	Cabin: Economy

[TD="class: disabledtext"]Seat information not available
[/TD]

 

[NM]

QF 962

7:10 PM
CBR

7:55 PM
BNE


HA 444FRI FEB 15
Flight Details

6:35 PM
BNE

8:05 AM
HNL

I know BNE is a little behind time (no daylight savings), but that is one mighty tight connection :shock:

 

[drron]

I know BNE is a little behind time (no daylight savings), but that is one mighty tight connection :shock:

The first flight was actually on 14/2 so more a case of being bored for a day.

 

[NM]

The first flight was actually on 14/2 so more a case of being bored for a day.

Ahh yes, in Brisbane ... that explains it

 

[Princess Fiona]

I've been having a play around with both the AA and QF websites in preparation for booking a trip to the US for Nov/Dec next year. I am finding that the availability seems to be at least as good if not greater on the AA website. The example I looked at was Oct 2013 SYD-JFK in J x2. QF showing CX availabilty via HKG and those weird mixtures of Y/J via LAX for 256K plus $900 tax for two. AA showing SYD-MEL-LAX-JFK for 125K plus $256 tax. Time to juice up the multiple AA accounts with the current bonus I think
OT I detest the QF multi-city booking engine it is a total basket case!