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For international it's I only for WPs, D for P1.I have a very convoluted set of flights getting from Brisbane to North Africa via Singapore, Japan and New York.
I am looking at trying to get a more direct flight via the USA .
Just to confirm before I call asking for business seat release across the Pacific, your only chance to get the bot to approve the release is there are D or I fare basis class revenue eats ?
Thank you .For international it's I only for WPs, D for P1.
My guess is this release of seats will make it even harder for WPs to get award seats released in the near future as it will diminish the number of business seats for sale and therefore push yield management to be even tighter.Anyway, just thought this would be an interesting data point that reward seats are now being released for dates that were not WP-releaseable.
Incorrect - there will be still availability through the droid.My guess is this release of seats will make it even harder for WPs to get award seats released in the near future as it will diminish the number of business seats for sale and therefore push yield management to be even tighter.
My point is if 2 J seats are taken from most cabins, there is less likely to be I & D availability to request after those 2 J seats are gone.Incorrect - there will be still availability through the droid.
Just following this up. I called through to Hobart, but they weren't able to see this seat for some reason (but they could see another seat from MEL-LAX that was also released today???). Thankfully the website came back online while I was on the phone and I was able to book online for the 25th + have Hobart cancel the previous booking.My preferred date was the 25th, so it'd be great to change my flights from 26 to 25th, but of course I can't use MMB to do that unless I log into my FF account, and the system is currently down.
Definitely HUACA. You can request release of seats for eligible family members and the Platinum member does not need to be on the same booking or even travelling (but the points do need to be deducted from the Platinum's FF account, which you can recoup via a Family Transfer if required).Brains Trust. I didn’t progress very far in my award seat release request today (Fiji call centre) as I was told that I as the QFF platinum needed to be on the booking - my plan was to request two business seats for my parents on the same flight I already had a paid ticket for.
Reading through this thread it appears others have been able to request for immediate family but I just thought I would double check.. HUACA best course of action?
I was delighted to find, on ExpertFlyer, a number of flights LHR MEL in June 2023 with I9 availability. I called up to request a Reward seat and confirmed the availability of those I class seats - "lots of availability" were the words. The request has been denied, unfortunately. Does anyone have any advise? I understand asking again will pretty much result in an immediate no.
I was delighted to find, on ExpertFlyer, a number of flights LHR MEL in June 2023 with I9 availability. I called up to request a Reward seat and confirmed the availability of those I class seats - "lots of availability" were the words. The request has been denied, unfortunately. Does anyone have any advise? I understand asking again will pretty much result in an immediate no.
Yes, whoever did this has set it up incorrectly. The requested seats should be in X. HUACA.Spoke to QF today about releasing three seats on a return SYD-OOL-SYD trip in December. Both flights showed N9 in Expertflyer. I could barely hear him, so didn't want to take up time by asking where in the world he was.
After about 45 minutes of being on hold/coming back to ask for more details he came back and said he would have to call me back when he has a booking reference and more details. In the meantime I have a PNR in MMB with seats in N. I'm guessing that's wrong? Question is whether he'll call me back and finalise it all, or it'll drop off and I'll never hear from him again
No that’s correct. There are blackout dates for requesting Award seat release.Requested LHRxSIN-BNE or LHRxSYD-BNE across two or three days in July 2023 which were all showing I9 for both the individual sectors and the through trips.
Was told by the agent that "they're blocked across those three months Jun, Jul and Aug ex. LHR because the airline thinks it can sell them."
It might have just been to get me off the phone, but it was a HBA agent and given the reports of forward bookings, it seems plausible.
No that’s correct. There are blackout dates for requesting Award seat release.