Book A Summer Beach Holiday with Qantas' Newest Points Planes

Hamilton Island is one of the Points Plane destinations. Photo: Vladimir Haltakov on Unsplash.

Qantas is making every seat on 21 domestic routes available to book as a Classic Flight Reward, for travel across six weeks in January and February 2023. This includes Business Class seats.

For the next three days, you can book any available Qantas seat on selected Australian domestic routes to coastal destinations using Qantas points, with flights priced at the Classic Flight Reward level. Destinations offered include Broome, Hamilton Island, Ballina/Byron Bay, Townsville, Merimbula, Port Lincoln and Kangaroo Island.

The Points Planes are available for travel between 9-22 January and the entire month of February 2023. Bookings will open up at 11am (AEDT) today, and be available until 11am (AEDT) on Friday, 2 December 2022, for travel on the following routes:

The 21 domestic routes available as Points Planes for travel in January & February 2023.

With every seat available to book on points on almost 3,000 flights during this promotion, Qantas says this is its biggest Points Plane release so far.

“Whenever we release Points Planes, we see huge demand from our frequent flyers and they often sell out. These flights are to some of Australia’s best summer destinations during peak travel months, so our advice is to book as soon as possible,” Qantas Loyalty CEO Olivia Wirth said.

“We also want to continue to encourage frequent flyers to visit the many world-class destinations in their own backyard, which is fantastic for local businesses and regional tourism.”

Classic Flight Reward seats are available on Qantas domestic flights from 8,000 points one-way in Economy or 18,400 points each way in Business Class. For example, it would cost 18,400 Qantas points + $57 in taxes & carrier charges to fly Brisbane-Hamilton Island in Business Class.

Qantas Boeing 737-800 Business Class. Photo: Qantas.

The latest Points Plane promotion comes a week after Qantas suddenly released a large batch of Business Class reward seats to many long-haul destinations including London. Most of those have already sold out.

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Lynda2475 Nov 28, 2022 #1

For 72 hours from 11am today, frequent flyers will be able to book reward seats on all flights between 9-22 January and all of February 2023 on the following routes:

Melbourne to Hamilton Island, Merimbula, Townsville, Devonport, Burnie and the Gold Coast

Sydney to Byron Bay, Hamilton Island, Merimbula, Townsville and the Gold Coast

Brisbane to the Whitsunday Coast, Hamilton Island and Townsville

Adelaide to Townsville, Kangaroo Island, Mount Gambier, Whyalla, Port Lincoln and the Gold Coast

Perth to Broome

It looks like Tassie, Canberra and NT miss out.

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m mviy Nov 28, 2022 #2

Nice, though for me to get excited it would need to be J/F to/from LHR with flights about 3-4 weeks apart for each direction.

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R RnD Nov 28, 2022 #3

Broome in January/February, a humidity lovers dream holiday.

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Lynda2475 Nov 28, 2022 #4

Routes don't really suit me either but I imagine plenty of points rich Sydney or Melbourne families might take advantage of a trip to the Gold Coast.

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j jpp42 Nov 29, 2022 #5

Which makes me wonder, what if Qantas were to lease one of those all-business-class planes from Singapore Airlines (if they still have them?) and fly Points Planes to/from LHR back and forth, constantly. Could they even keep up with demand, or would they sell out for a year instantly? (Yes I know this would never be commercially or operationally viable, it's just a thought exercise to note the incredible demand for classic flight rewards to London.)