The Qantas Newbie Questions Thread

[SYD]

Question: Does searching/booking an open jaw flight itinerary on the QF multi-city tool produce outcomes that are price competitive/reasonable vs. non-open jaw flight itineraries?

I am thinking about flights to Egypt/Jordan etc for some travel this year and I was thinking about booking an open jaw ticket across multiple cities so I could fill in some internal local/regional flights with local carriers.

I'm thinking something like this:

Outbound: Melbourne - Dubai(or Doha) - Cairo

Inbound: Jordan - Dubai(or Doha) (Including a stopover of say 5 or so days) - Melbourne

If I kept the intermediate city (Dubai/Doha) the same on both legs would the QF multi-city tool price this close to a "standard" return flight of Melbourne-Cairo-Melbourne or Melbourne-Jordan-Melbourne? Or is this something that a TA would be better placed to price?

I guess it is the open-jaw aspect of the itinerary that has me puzzled over the pricing.

Thanks.

Absolutely! Very worth while playing around with the MC search.

I can’t speak for you specific requirements but I’ve had some great deals using MS. One trick is to see what’s on “sale” (mostly grim post Covid) but search into a port on sale and then outbid elsewhere.

ITA Matrix will save you a lot of time first.

 

[Kerrodt]

Absolutely! Very worth while playing around with the MS search.

I can’t speak for you specific requirements but I’ve had some great deals using MS. One trick is to see what’s on “sale” (mostly grim post Covid) but search into a port on sale and then outbid elsewhere.

ITA Matrix will save you a lot of time first.

What is “MS Search”?

 

[DejaBrew]

What is “MS Search”?

I'm guessing it was an autocorrect typo and was meant to be "MC" (Multi City).

 

[kangarooflyer88]

What is “MS Search”?

Multi-sector search?

 

[SYD]

I'm guessing it was an autocorrect typo and was meant to be "MC" (Multi City).

Yep. Corrected…

Also meant to say that open-jaw (A to B, C to A) does mean you need to make own way B to C. But a one way might still be better value in $ and time doing A to B (return) and B to C (return).

 

[RichardMEL]

It’s not KL by the way I simply used it as an example to hide the identity of this “opportunity” and it’s not originating or terminating in Oz either.

-RooFlyer

It should be impossible to book a QF codeshare not involving Australia for the very reason that codeshares are used for sales of QF fares. ie QF require aithorisation to sell fares for the locations involved. I can't think of any routes not onvolving AU as an O or D that QF sells its own fares in. Still happy to be corrected.

For example, QF can offer and sell LAD-LAX-MEL and offers codeshares to enable this, including a QF codeshare in AA LAS-LAX. Hiwever, QF cannot offer and sell fares LAS-LAX only, and thus you would never see a QF code iffered on LAS-LAX alone for sale.

Let alone booking rewards seats.

So if you've found one, I believe many would be interested to know!

 

[SYD]

It should be impossible to book a QF codeshare not involving Australia for the very reason that codeshares are used for sales of QF fares. ie QF require aithorisation to sell fares for the locations involved. I can't think of any routes not onvolving AU as an O or D that QF sells its own fares in. Still happy to be corrected.

For example, QF can offer and sell LAD-LAX-MEL and offers codeshares to enable this, including a QF codeshare in AA LAS-LAX. Hiwever, QF cannot offer and sell fares LAS-LAX only, and thus you would never see a QF code iffered on LAS-LAX alone for sale.

Let alone booking rewards seats.

So if you've found one, I believe many would be interested to know!

There are non-AU originating/terminating “codeshares” for sale (eg NAN-LAX on FJ, I’ve booked it).

But to the best of my knowledge you can’t get that as a CR with a QF code? Which was the gist of the OPs question RE PC member earning SCs on QF coded codeshare. SB might have some others?