QFF Platinum requesting release of extra Classic Reward seats?

[fletty]

Success for BNE>ABX 30-03, 1 passenger in economy with N4.

 

[galah]

10/1/26 QF106 HNL-MEL Q9, 4 pax in economy - Success! No award availability and I wasn't confident given peak season and potential blackout period. Pleasantly surprised!

 

[SydneySwan]

Mr SS junior needs a one way SYD - SCL on QF27 in the 7 days or so from March 4. Y is fine. Mrs SS (WP) is not in a position to call at the moment and request a CR seat. There is plenty of C+. Is anyone able to guess if a request for CR is likely to be successful on any of those dates?

 

[RealtimeY]

Worth a call, but some dates are a definite no
04 Mar I0 Q0
05 Mar I0 Q0
06 Mar I1 Q0
07 Mar I0 Q0
09 Mar I1 Q1
11 Mar I7 Q1
12 Mar I3 Q4

 

[kpro]

Alright I re-subscribed to EF (no free trial for existing accounts).

Tried for the following in J -

QF127 19 Dec - Denied
QF29 19 Dec - Denied
QF29 20 Dec - Denied
QF127 22 Dec - Denied
QF29 22 Dec - Accepted

QF2 10 Jan - Denied (and I availability disappeared after this)
QF2 11 Jan - Denied
Qf292 11 Jan - Denied

Didn't end up booking anything, will keep an eye out for cash fares.

 

[serfty]

Didn't end up booking anything, will keep an eye out for cash fares.

Good luck that time of year ex Oz!

 

[kpro]

Good luck that time of year ex Oz!

I'm always flying out around that time of year, not had to pay anything more then $4.5k to SE Asia yet. This year's looking like $5.2k to $6k though.

 

[shankoz]

Managed to get 1x J released for PER-SIN QF71 on 15 August (could only get a Y released on the way home). Better than nothing!

 

[SydneySwan]

Worth a call, but some dates are a definite no
04 Mar I0 Q0
05 Mar I0 Q0
06 Mar I1 Q0
07 Mar I0 Q0
09 Mar I1 Q1
11 Mar I7 Q1
12 Mar I3 Q4

No Y seats could be released in QF27 for entire month of March. Pretty disappointing.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

Mr SS junior needs a one way SYD - SCL on QF27 in the 7 days or so from March 4. Y is fine. Mrs SS (WP) is not in a position to call at the moment and request a CR seat. There is plenty of C+. Is anyone able to guess if a request for CR is likely to be successful on any of those dates?

This was discussed elsewhere but you shouldn't have a problem finding economy and business class seats down to Santiago in March. To make a long story short, what is happening now is LATAM (Qantas' main classic awards partner for Santiago) is sporadically adding economy and business classic availability like once a month (I'm finding around the middle of the month so maybe check on Saturday) and then taking it all away a day or two later. You certainly need to be on your toes to find it but it does crop up and the availability is very nice. For instance, last month when availability popped up on the 15th, I was able to get my brother-in-law, sister-in law and mother-in-law all booked into LATAM business flying Sydney to Santiago, and even managed them to get all the way to Porto Alegre, Brazil (albeit with that last domestic sector in economy) for mid March without issues.

So don't give up your hopes here.

-RooFlyer88

 

[_TheTraveller_]

PER-LHR

2/10 I5
3/10 I4
9/10 I5
10/10 I6

All struck out

 

[kangarooflyer88]

PER-LHR

2/10 I5
3/10 I4
9/10 I5
10/10 I6

All struck out

Do you have any latitude flying to FCO or CDG? The reason I ask is there may be more availability there. Additionally for PER-FCO specifically it falls in the mileage band that only attracts 108,400 points when flying business. The last PER-FCO is scheduled for 2/10/2025 but I suspect you should be able to find something out of CDG on the way back. Oh and by the way flying out of CDG instead of LHR means you’ll save a couple hundred quid on Air Passneger Duty, a fee Qantas passes on to customers for some reason

-RooFlyer88

 

[_TheTraveller_]

Do you have any latitude flying to FCO or CDG? The reason I ask is there may be more availability there. Additionally for PER-FCO specifically it falls in the mileage band that only attracts 108,400 points when flying business. The last PER-FCO is scheduled for 2/10/2025 but I suspect you should be able to find something out of CDG on the way back. Oh and by the way flying out of CDG instead of LHR means you’ll save a couple hundred quid on Air Passneger Duty, a fee Qantas passes on to customers for some reason

-RooFlyer88

Good shout. I'll consider CDG and fly to LHR after.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

Good shout. I'll consider CDG and fly to LHR after.

One thing to consider: it’s true that Qantas can only open up award seats for Qantas operated flights. However, there is nothing stopping you from tacking on another award segment if there is availability on a partner. For instance if they find Perth to Paris or Perth to Rome, and there also happens to be British Airways availability to Heathrow they can add that sector on so that your itinerary will be Perth to London connecting in Rome/Paris

 

[_TheTraveller_]

I did end up getting QF9 on a day with I9 but I tried to get QF33, on the same day as a domestic connection but the bot said no and the supervisor couldn't force it either as it's considered a international segment.

All in all, it's a decent outcome.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

I did end up getting QF9 on a day with I9 but I tried to get QF33, on the same day as a domestic connection but the bot said no and the supervisor couldn't force it either as it's considered a international segment.

All in all, it's a decent outcome.

Great to hear you got a seat released for the international sector to LHR. I take it that you were able to get a normal flight in business to PER (I.e. one taking off from the domestic terminal rather than the international terminal)? If so what you could try doing on that day of travel is head to the international terminal and see if an agent at First check in can move you onto QF33. I say this from experience as I was in the same situation as you, I wanted QF9 from MEL to PER but the bot would never release it. Showed up early for the flight and got the First agent to move myself and partner onto QF9. Obviously this will depend on load volumes on the day of departure so no guarantees. But it could potentially make your travel experience better since you’ll only have to clear security once plus you’ll have the benefit of the Sydney First lounge in addition to whatever lounge they got at PER.

-RooFlyer88

 

[_TheTraveller_]

Great to hear you got a seat released for the international sector to LHR. I take it that you were able to get a normal flight in business to PER (I.e. one taking off from the domestic terminal rather than the international terminal)? If so what you could try doing on that day of travel is head to the international terminal and see if an agent at First check in can move you onto QF33. I say this from experience as I was in the same situation as you, I wanted QF9 from MEL to PER but the bot would never release it. Showed up early for the flight and got the First agent to move myself and partner onto QF9. Obviously this will depend on load volumes on the day of departure so no guarantees. But it could potentially make your travel experience better since you’ll only have to clear security once plus you’ll have the benefit of the Sydney First lounge in addition to whatever lounge they got at PER.

-RooFlyer88

Unfortunately I've booked myself to arrive in PER the night before so moving to QF33 won't be a choice. I'll keep an eye out for QF33.

 

[serfty]

I did end up getting QF9 on a day with I9 but I tried to get QF33, on the same day as a domestic connection but the bot said no and the supervisor couldn't force it either as it's considered a international segment.

All in all, it's a decent outcome.

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M

Post in thread 'QFF Platinum requesting release of extra Classic Reward seats?'

Nov 22, 2024

It's actually not the first time I heard this "domestic leg guaranteed" on the phone.

For international seat release bookings, where the domestic connection is knocked back by the robot...

The written policy is that the domestic connection can be manually forced in as long as C class is available for J, or S class is available for Y, on the domestic on a standalone basis (eg. looking at just SYD-MEL separately as if it were a new commercial booking).

The agent needs to call a team coach to have this done. Regular agents don't have the access to do it.

• madrooster

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[_TheTraveller_]

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M

Post in thread 'QFF Platinum requesting release of extra Classic Reward seats?'

Nov 22, 2024

It's actually not the first time I heard this "domestic leg guaranteed" on the phone.

For international seat release bookings, where the domestic connection is knocked back by the robot...

The written policy is that the domestic connection can be manually forced in as long as C class is available for J, or S class is available for Y, on the domestic on a standalone basis (eg. looking at just SYD-MEL separately as if it were a new commercial booking).

The agent needs to call a team coach to have this done. Regular agents don't have the access to do it.

• madrooster

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Yeah. The HBA staff was aware of it and unfortunately their team leader/manager said it wasn't permitted with QF33 because it's technically an international flight despite connecting to QF9. It makes sense. They could force a seat on any of the other flights but QF33 was a no go.

 

[DAC1]

madrooster has also previously said the domestic legs of international flights are embargoed from requests