The Qantas Newbie Questions Thread

[Kalliste]

Recently just started working on increasing qantas status credits and am 20 away from Gold. I have until May 31 to get this. What is the best/cheapest way of doing so?

 

[RealtimeY]

Have you achieved Green Tier? That's probably the easiest way to get 50 SC.

 

[DejaBrew]

Recently just started working on increasing qantas status credits and am 20 away from Gold. I have until May 31 to get this. What is the best/cheapest way of doing so?

Beyond @RealtimeY’s suggestion, a return flight point to point anywhere on the east coast would be enough. e.g. SYD>MEL return in Y will be 20SC.

 

[Mwenenzi]

Recently just started working on increasing qantas status credits and am 20 away from Gold. I have until May 31 to get this. What is the best/cheapest way of doing so?

Where are you located?
Closest airport?
As well as QF look at JQ with bundle.

 

[Kalliste]

Where are you located?
Closest airport?
As well as QF look at JQ with bundle.

Closest airport is Canberra

 

[Sxs]

Hi, I was searching for classic reward availability on AY flights and found something really strange. Departing Jan 21 from HKG to ARN via HEL there was 3 business reward availability, but when I searched the second leg separately, which was HEL to ARN on Jan 22, there were only 2 business reward availability. How is it that an extra business classic reward seat just appears on AY 801 when I am booking from HKG with a HEL stopover.

I checked on BA website and there was the exact same issue.

 

[JessicaTam]

Hi, I was searching for classic reward availability on AY flights and found something really strange. Departing Jan 21 from HKG to ARN via HEL there was 3 business reward availability, but when I searched the second leg separately, which was HEL to ARN on Jan 22, there were only 2 business reward availability. How is it that an extra business classic reward seat just appears on AY 801 when I am booking from HKG with a HEL stopover.

I checked on BA website and there was the exact same issue.

That would be what is known as 'married segments'.

I.e. the airline is only willing to sell an award ticket on the two connecting flights, instead of separately. A way of controlling inventory. This will protect the route for someone who needs to connect. I would guess there is enough demand for pax to go HKG-x-ARN for that protection to be warranted.

 

[Sxs]

That would be what is known as 'married segments'.

I.e. the airline is only willing to sell an award ticket on the two connecting flights, instead of separately. A way of controlling inventory. This will protect the route for someone who needs to connect. I would guess there is enough demand for pax to go HKG-x-ARN for that protection to be warranted.

Thanks, so I currrently have hkg to Hel booked for 3 pax in business and I want to change to hkg to arn, as I have just realised they are the same rewards price. However, none of the qantas agents (I’m only silver with qf) I have called were able to do so, and kept saying they had no availability. I presume the issue is that I already have hkg to Hel booked, so when they search for hkg to arn availability, they are not able to find any reward seats on hkg to Hel, and thus are not able to change my flight to the hkg to arn married segment flight.

I am considering cancelling and rebooking, will that work, or are there any other methods to get around this, maybe a Hobart phone agent?

 

[JessicaTam]

Thanks, so I currrently have hkg to Hel booked for 3 pax in business and I want to change to hkg to arn, as I have just realised they are the same rewards price. However, none of the qantas agents (I’m only bronze with qf) I have called were able to do so, and kept saying they had no availability. I presume the issue is that I already have hkg to Hel booked, so when they search for hkg to arn availability, they are not able to find any reward seats on hkg to Hel, and thus are not able to change my flight to the hkg to arn married segment flight.

I am considering cancelling and rebooking, will that work, or are there any other methods to get around this, maybe a Hobart phone agent?

Not sure. You could try asking if they can cancel the booking and rebook on the same phone call. Assuming you get the points straight back in your account.

Alternatively, do you have enough points to book the new flights before the old flights are cancelled?

 

[Sxs]

Not sure. You could try asking if they can cancel the booking and rebook on the same phone call. Assuming you get the points straight back in your account.

Alternatively, do you have enough points to book the new flights before the old flights are cancelled?

Well I currently have hkg to Hel booked, on dec 31, so I can’t change my booking to add a Hel to Arn leg also because I’ve already booked all three hkg to Hel rewards.

In this case I might just cancel and rebook. Does anyone know whether reward seats I cancel will immediately be put back on the system?

 

[BrianQQ]

Gonna ask here for a friend:

Will bags get tagged through?

• QF rewards flight from MEL-LHR
• BA revenue flight booked on BA.com from LHR-FCO

QF policy says yes, but that "may not be supported by all Oneworld airlines" is questionable, espc for BA.

 

[muppet]

Gonna ask here for a friend:

Will bags get tagged through?

• QF rewards flight from MEL-LHR
• BA revenue flight booked on BA.com from LHR-FCO

QF policy says yes, but that "may not be supported by all Oneworld airlines" is questionable, espc for BA.

QF policy says yes but getting an agent to do it is another thing - have tried twice in the last couple of years and both “can’t be done” but that was connecting to AA where the benefit was minimal anyway.

Worth a try given you don’t need to collect bags connecting at LHR.