Where are the awards?

[jrfsp]

How do you see these QR reward seats? I can’t search Doha to any port in Aus via QF site.

Try AA site.

 

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

How do you see these QR reward seats? I can’t search Doha to any port in Aus via QF site.

Try this…
Use Multi City search option.
Then search a round trip originating in Aus, using dummy dates for the Aus-DOH sector.
Then you should be able to see the DOH-Aus flight available.

 

[Guvner]

How do you see these QR reward seats? I can’t search Doha to any port in Aus via QF site.

I'm not searching from DOH... "from most AU origins".

 

[MrJetset]

Keep in mind that QR awards have suddenly been made available because they have moved to Avios.

QFF J and F and EK F awards still almost nowhere to be found.

 

[jrfsp]

PSA: Looks like QR have released more J reward seats. Just booked two for Jan 2023 that weren't available a few days ago when I last checked.

Indeed, Thanks

I have a MEL-PER-DOH in J for June, still nothing ex MEL for my date but there is now availability ex SYD or BNE....i think ill stick with going via PER (A350 Q Suite)

 

[kreuky]

QF website doesnt allow you to search from DOH. Just search a SYD-DOH return with the dates you want for DOH-SYD

 

[chodo]

How do you see these QR reward seats? I can’t search Doha to any port in Aus via QF site.

I saw some using Melbourne to Rome. Or maybe try multi trip?

 

[djkelly69]

QF website doesnt allow you to search from DOH.

You can, just do a multi-city award search and put in a dummy SYD-MEL (or any random award flight) as the first leg. Then next leg DOH-xx_.

 

[TessR]

Try AA site.

Thanks. Unfortunately they dont match QF availability - showing available on AA but not on QF. Nothing available when I need it.

 

[woodyren]

Just booked 2 QR J rewards bookings FCO-DOH-SYD in OCT. Have been checking availability regularly and previously nothing until I found these today. Quite a bit of availability in Oct. Sadly neither flight has the Q suite I believe.

 

[Franky]

QF website doesnt allow you to search from DOH. Just search a SYD-DOH return with the dates you want for DOH-SYD

OK - I've been trying to get J flights PER-NRT-DFW(and onwards), and have been able to get them using AA points, but would prefer to use some of the many QF points we have. Have just done as suggested on QF a dummy trip NRT-PER-NRT which now shows the PER-NRT leg available on AA points, now being available using QF points. How do I now drop the leg I dont want and book the one that I do? If I can use this work round, I would like to use the QF points for the next legs of our trip.

 

[RichardMEL]

A few pages upthread there was comment about reward seats that QF are not choosing to make available.. as a general comment it is also possibly more likely the partner airline is not making them available - we wouldn't know unless we were within QFF and had any idea of the intra-alliance agreements which may specify any limits on such things - for xample while QF, BA and QR may all be in oneworld, they still have, as I understand it, individual agreements between the individual airlines.

Just a general comment.

 

[MrJetset]

As a data point: I had Safari and Firefox open logged into two separate WP accounts at 9:59AM and 10:59AM.

I searched QF SYD-BKK on one and SYD-SIN on the other for 353 days in advance. Both only show Y awards. No U Class for either and no P Class for SIN.

Suffice to say the QF 353 day rule is dead.

 

[bjm76]

As a data point: I had Safari and Firefox open logged into two separate WP accounts at 9:59AM and 10:59AM.

I searched QF SYD-BKK on one and SYD-SIN on the other for 353 days in advance. Both only show Y awards. No U Class for either and no P Class for SIN.

Suffice to say the QF 353 day rule is dead.

Thats exactly what I think too. But maybe just selected routes at the moment. I did manage to get 2 J awards several times at the 353 day mark to BKK/SIN before the pandemic, not now!

 

[LA10]

For anyone who is interested, I'm cancelling some MEL-LAX business awards now, so hopefully they become available to grab. It's for early June.

 

[pottsy]

Dear brains trust,,
1)Are there less classic reward seats available now than (what was once considered) 'normal'?

2)If possible to find and book, are there more problems with them than 'normal'? (Eg: Business reward seats altered to economy with no notification or correspondence.) I haven't been aware of this prior to current Qantas customer service issues?

 

[Mattg]

I've been booking Qantas Classic Rewards for a long time. In my opinion, the answer to both questions is unfortunately "yes".

 

[justinbrett]

I would have said there’s more seats. I think Qantas has said this too?

I don’t think #2 is a common occurrence, however I think there’s a higher chance of international flights being cancelled.

 

[cjd600]

1) you're probably seeing a lot of people with a lot of saved up points, and not a lot of travel in the last 2 years, snapping up awards as travel opens up again. Increased demand may not mean less initial availability

 

[offshore171]

Dear brains trust,,
1)Are there less classic reward seats available now than (what was once considered) 'normal'?

No doubt.

It's hardly surprising, since there's a huge backlog of unredeemed points from the millions of customers who haven't been able to burn them on travel for 2 years.

Now everyone has a ton of points and wants to use them. Add to this the fact that flight timetables are still not back to normal, and the result is that demand greatly exceeds supply.

School holiday dates are harder again.