seats.aero Advice for QFF or VA

[jonedwards80]

Hi all,

I am trying to book 2 rewards flights in business class from Brisbane to Japan for November 2025.

I am using seats.aero and struggling a little when it comes to actually seeing the equivalent on the airline sites. Is this common?

For example, I see this on seats.aero:



But when I move to Qantas I get this:



It also doesn't really input the correct details into the Qantas search. I have to add them myself by cross-referencing the seats.aero info - not really what I saw when I watched the YouTube videos on this!

Any ideas on how to overcome this?

Thanks!

 

[elanshin]

Hi all,

I am trying to book 2 rewards flights in business class from Brisbane to Japan for November 2025.

I am using seats.aero and struggling a little when it comes to actually seeing the equivalent on the airline sites. Is this common?

For example, I see this on seats.aero:

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But when I move to Qantas I get this:

View attachment 416669

It also doesn't really input the correct details into the Qantas search. I have to add them myself by cross-referencing the seats.aero info - not really what I saw when I watched the YouTube videos on this!

Any ideas on how to overcome this?

Thanks!

Try using the multi city search tool and break it up into the individual legs rather than the main booking page.

 

[muppet]

Hi all,

I am trying to book 2 rewards flights in business class from Brisbane to Japan for November 2025.

I am using seats.aero and struggling a little when it comes to actually seeing the equivalent on the airline sites. Is this common?

For example, I see this on seats.aero:

View attachment 416668

But when I move to Qantas I get this:

View attachment 416669

It also doesn't really input the correct details into the Qantas search. I have to add them myself by cross-referencing the seats.aero info - not really what I saw when I watched the YouTube videos on this!

Any ideas on how to overcome this?

Thanks!

I can see it using the multi-city tool but still just inputting BNE-KIX.

I think it does happen though as sometimes seats.aero uses cached data (I’m not sure when and why some is live data)

 

[jonedwards80]

I am getting this...

 

[elanshin]

I am getting this...

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Try Brisbane to Taipei (then +1 day) Taipei to Osaka.

 

[jonedwards80]

Try Brisbane to Taipei (then +1 day) Taipei to Osaka.

Yes I tried that first:

 

[jonedwards80]

Further to this...

Is it common to just book one way, then try to nab the return leg separately later?

Sorry, I am a newbie to this!

 

[blackcat20]

Further to this...

Is it common to just book one way, then try to nab the return leg separately later?

Sorry, I am a newbie to this!

yes, very normal. always grab what is available because it might be gone by the time the return pops up.

 

[dairyfloss]

Further to this...

Is it common to just book one way, then try to nab the return leg separately later?

Sorry, I am a newbie to this!

Yes - very common with rewards; better with 1/2 of what you need, than none!

Cheers,
Matt.

 

[jonedwards80]

yes, very normal. always grab what is available because it might be gone by the time the return pops up.

okay cool. and the likelihood of a return popping up? Whilst I love Japan, I dont think my waistline would handle too much longer than a fortnight lol

 

[muppet]

Yes I tried that first:

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@jonedwards80 were you able to get it to work using the multi-city but only one segment BNE-KIX?

This is what I get using that approach:

 

[levelnine]

I am trying to book 2 rewards flights in business class from Brisbane to Japan for November 2025.

The problem you're encountering is you are looking for 2 passengers.

There is only 1 seat available.

seats.aero cannot pull the number of seats available from Qantas.

 

[jonedwards80]

Yes I see this now. I think its definitely the 2 seat issue. Sadly unavoidable!

I know I booked last year to Japan using QFF getting two seats... hmm