TOK syd JASA vs classic

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

I'm doing a holiday next sept to oct and looking to fly from LAX or SF to NRT and then use my QFF points to get back to SYD - unless there's some good specials turning up - a week ago Asian was allowing me to FLY LAX - NRT or ICN - SYD for $1040 inc taxes but seems the fare has disappeared

Anyways, I found it strange that there's plenty of J classic awards from NRT to SYD but the pricing for a JASA is over 700K - I would have thought if there's classic awards avail that they would also be avail as JASAs?

I also found that there's PE avail as classic, but it's not avail as a PE ASA, so wondering if in fact there is an PE on the flight - I've heard QF sometimes allows you to book in PE but then it turns out there's none on the flight and you're stuck in Y after paying for a PE seat.

What's ya thoughts on this?

 

[serfty]

Do you have status? JASAs come out of the normal fare buckets. There are special fare buckets for PAX with Status.

If there is JASA award availabily at classic points level, there will be classic award availability for the same flight.

However, classic award availability does not always translate to JASAs in that fashion.

If you can see U availability on E/F/KVS/Flightstats then discounted JASA's are normally available.

 

[richie9x]

I have also been starting to plan a JASA to and/or from Tokyo.

I found similar to you, if you go from Australia to Tokyo you can get a JASA for a bit less than 100,000 points. If you add a return leg you get that for a bit under 100,000 as well. But if you go to book a JASA by itself from Tokyo to Australia the points needed are over 700,000.

Seems a bit unusual.

I was wanting to go there via Jetstar on a paid flight as it is a daylight flight and return via a JASA on Qantas over night.

 

[serfty]

E/F shows U2 on QF22 Oct 23rd and a journey in business class can be booked now for 79,257 QFF points each way on a return basis.

However, on a one-way basis this is indeed over 700K QFF.

 

[arraitch]

I found similar to you, if you go from Australia to Tokyo you can get a JASA for a bit less than 100,000 points. If you add a return leg you get that for a bit under 100,000 as well. But if you go to book a JASA by itself from Tokyo to Australia the points needed are over 700,000.

Drifting a long way west of Tokyo I know, but my searches have returned similar results when looking at travel between Oz and BOM.

 

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

I have found a similar costing in terms of Jetstar last year where I wanted to fly into Osaka and fly home from NRT.

I ended up flying in and out of NRT as the 1 way flight from NRT was going to cost the same as the return.

It would be interesting to find out why QF does this as I've not seen any other market treated like this.