QR withholding award seats from Qantas?

Frustrating to see FIRST availability on the BA website (using Avios), but nothing on QF web - rang, and South African operator says definitely no availability visible her end either.
 
THR said:
It's not just Qantas that has no QR availability though. I cannot see any on BA or AA.
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Nor Asia Miles... well now Cathay since they have moved booking to the Cathay website
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Maybe they are leaving One World?
 
adamd40 said:
Nor Asia Miles... well now Cathay since they have moved booking to the Cathay website
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Maybe they are leaving One World?
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The new Cathay website is such a disappointment when it comes for looking for reward flights. In the past it showed Qatar availability about 360 days out: before other airlines including AA and BA. It meant that those of us with Asia Miles had a bit of an advantage.
 
Human said:
The new Cathay website is such a disappointment when it comes for looking for reward flights. In the past it showed Qatar availability about 360 days out: before other airlines including AA and BA. It meant that those of us with Asia Miles had a bit of an advantage.
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The new site is complete rubbish and very bug ridden.

I have ~50k Asia Miles expiring at the end of the month, I topped this up with another 20k. Now with this new site and the vanishing of Qatar i'm struggling to find the flights I want next year. Very disapointed as Asia Miles used to offer great value, but after these points are gone I wont be using them in the future.

Hopefully the Qatar awards show up in Velocity soon and I can book from there and forget about One World
 
I think the hope for many of us with stashes of Velocity points is that Qatar will preference Velocity in some way — by releasing more reward seats, and/or by releasing them earlier than to Qantas.

This may be wishful thinking, but it’s not impossible either, given the somewhat bad blood between Qatar and Qantas.
 
adamd40 said:
Nor Asia Miles... well now Cathay since they have moved booking to the Cathay website
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Maybe they are leaving One World?
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Umm, what? Are you suggesting that the changes to Asia Miles are somehow correlated to Cathay leaving oneworld?
 
Award availability seems to be "opening-up" one day at a time. Yesterday there were award seats upto 04MAY, It's now progressed to 05MAY.
 
rigram said:
Award availability seems to be "opening-up" one day at a time. Yesterday there were award seats upto 04MAY, It's now progressed to 05MAY.
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What time do they usually open up these reward seats? I'm looking at Perth to somewhere in Europe but no QR flights are showing up on those dates in economy.
 
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So glad I nabbed J in June with them before all this happened. Sadly that's only MEL-CDG...I still have to find a way back home again in J.
 
FlyingFiona said:
So glad I nabbed J in June with them before all this happened. Sadly that's only MEL-CDG...I still have to find a way back home again in J.
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OMG - lucky you.... There's nothing beyond 05MAY as of today - even when I speak with Reservations, they can't see anything.
 
FlyingFiona said:
So glad I nabbed J in June with them before all this happened. Sadly that's only MEL-CDG...I still have to find a way back home again in J.
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If you’re game, there might be CX and JL options but both open before QF but bookable and can go quickly. There might be some BA options.
 
SYD said:
If you’re game, there might be CX and JL options but both open before QF but bookable and can go quickly. There might be some BA options.
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I'm booked in J reward seats on JL in Dec CDG-HND-SYD - do you think JL's a dicey move? :/
 
FlyingFiona said:
I'm booked in J reward seats on JL in Dec CDG-HND-SYD - do you think JL's a dicey move? :/
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JL seems to have already adjusted its CDG-HND schedule for December to account for the need to avoid Russian airspace, and that flight is currently running as a daily service. HND-SYD for December should also be fairly safe.

I think you'll be fine - just keep an eye out in case of any schedule changes that require Qantas to reissue the ticket! :)
 

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