Where have the Qantas reward seat icons gone?

[cwilko]

Qantas used to have a handy month-at-a-view calendar that showed Economy/PE/Business/First class seat availabilities at a glance. The availability of each class was indicated by a small coloured icon in the shape of a seat allowing you to make an easy date and class selection. It seems to have disappeared from their site, unless I've lost my way in navigating to it. Any suggestions? Thankyou.

 

[aikman]

Search for flights using the "Multi-city" option and the calendar will appear.

 

[cwilko]

Thankyou for responding so quickly, much appreciated.
I've tried that and I can see a calendar, but not the Seat Icons in all the different colours.
For regular single city return flights, it used to be offered as part of your award search.
It could have been removed. Thankyou again though.

 

[Kangol]

Thankyou for responding so quickly, much appreciated.
I've tried that and I can see a calendar, but not the Seat Icons in all the different colours.
For regular single city return flights, it used to be offered as part of your award search.
It could have been removed. Thankyou again though.

If there's no availability on a certain date, it won't show the icons in the different colours on the calendar.
As you probably know, because of what happened in the last few years, classic award availability is scarce now.

 

[pjm99au]

Did you select use points on the multi city screen and flexible with dates when selecting the date?

 

[cwilko]

Ahh ... the 'flexible date' option may make the difference - I hadn't selected that. Thankyou for that suggestion.

However it's still not showing that particular view/screen, but it is saying ...

... There are no flights within 14 days of your searched dates. Please clear all filters, or change search.

So maybe this is why, as indicated by member 'Kangol' above.

Post automatically merged: Jan 24, 2023

Still ... I haven't seen this Seat Icon view for many months now.

 

[SYD]

Ahh ... the 'flexible date' option may make the difference - I hadn't selected that. Thankyou for that suggestion.

However it's still not showing that particular view/screen, but it is saying ...

... There are no flights within 14 days of your searched dates. Please clear all filters, or change search.

So maybe this is why, as indicated by member 'Kangol' above.

Post automatically merged: Jan 24, 2023

Still ... I haven't seen this Seat Icon view for many months now.

It’s definitely there.

”Multi-city”
“Use points - Classic Flight Rewards Only”

Try a oneway search first. You’ll see “Premium Economy” not selected. Click that then “Go”. You should then get the full month view.

 

[aikman]

Here is proof.

 

[cwilko]

FANTASTIC!! Thankyou so much. It's been frustrating me for some time.
Wonderful I can see it now. And I will persist with trying to secure something.
Thankyou again!

 

[SYD]

FANTASTIC!! Thankyou so much. It's been frustrating me for some time.
Wonderful I can see it now. And I will persist with trying to secure something.
Thankyou again!

Just be aware that the multi-city search is a bit coughbersome. It ‘forgets‘ everything if you “change” the search (so have to start all over again).

If you click through on a particular date but don’t see options you want, click on “Dates” ( not “change”). That’ll take you back to the calendar view.

 

[cwilko]

Thankyou everyone. First time I've used this Forum, and it will now save me so much time.
I rang Qantas four times over the last week and - when they did answer the call!! - didn't even know how to help me.
So again, thankyou!!

Post automatically merged: Jan 24, 2023

Just be aware that the multi-city search is a bit coughbersome. It “forgets” everything if you “change” the search (so have to start all over again).

If you click through on a particular date but don’t see options you want, click on “Dates” ( not “change”). That’ll take you back to the calendar view.

Thankyou, I have made a note of that. Brilliant!

 

[lukus g]

I‘ve been trying to use the multi city search successfully for a number of weeks. I find that on the page where you select your routing the option to select class of travel disappears and sometimes the ‘search flights’ button. I thought at first this was a browser issues with safari but it occurs with chrome as well. has anybody else experienced such strange behaviour?

 

[SYD]

I‘ve been trying to use the multi city search successfully for a number of weeks. I find that on the page where you select your routing the option to select class of travel disappears and sometimes the ‘search flights’ button. I thought at first this was a browser issues with safari but it occurs with chrome as well. has anybody else experienced such strange behaviour?

Multi city is designed to show any award seats in any class of travel (you can get the classic calendar view).

The missing search button happens to me if for some reason I’m not logged in and it prompts me for my pin. Going back to the home page and restart the search sometimes works.

 

[RooFlyer]

My God this IT is carp. Why should you have to jump through so many hoops just to display functionality that is there?

 

[serfty]

Why should you have to jump through so many hoops just display functionality that is there?

'cause it may increase 'breakage' rates?

 

[MikeNoob]

Hi everyone. I stumbled across this thread while googling to try and solve a problem I’ve got. I’m trying to book business class classic reward seats from Amsterdam to Perth next year. Ive worked out how to access the reward seat calendar with the little ribbon icons showing which class of reward seats are available on each date. But 99% of the time when I click on a date with the “business” ribbon I find there are no business flights available. Very frustrating! Am I doing something wrong?

 

[ellen10]

Maybe there are no business class rewards available. They are very scare and if you do not have status, almost impossible to get.
Sometimes you can be lucky if you check on the day they are released.