Qantas Frequent Flyer - Newbie Question

Hi, not sure if this the right place to ask, but from lurking you seem to be a friendly bunch, so here goes.

She who must be obeyed has booked a Qantas holiday for the pair us in November. We are travelling London to Singapore and two days later Singapore to Sydney. We have a few internal flights; Sydney-Ayers Rock, Ayers Rock-Cairns and Cairns-Sydney and return to London staying a couple of nights in Bangkok. We've booked business class to and from Australia and the internal flights are in economy.

My questions are: Can we book seats in advance (and if yes how) and is worth us joining the Qantas frequent flyer programme.

Our draft itinerary says we are flying Qantas except between Sydney and Bangkok (BA)

Thanks for your time

Hi, not sure if this the right place to ask, but from lurking you seem to be a friendly bunch, so here goes.

She who must be obeyed has booked a Qantas holiday for the pair us in November. We are travelling London to Singapore and two days later Singapore to Sydney. We have a few internal flights; Sydney-Ayers Rock, Ayers Rock-Cairns and Cairns-Sydney and return to London staying a couple of nights in Bangkok. We've booked business class to and from Australia and the internal flights are in economy.

My questions are: Can we book seats in advance (and if yes how) and is worth us joining the Qantas frequent flyer programme.

Our draft itinerary says we are flying Qantas except between Sydney and Bangkok (BA)

Thanks for your time
Welcome sm0611^
For QF international flights you can call ahead and request seat allocations.
For domestic seats you can OLCI and see if better seats are avaialabel 24 hours ahead.
For joining the QF programe, well what do you want from a frequent flyer program? You do not need to join QF you can look at any oneworld program for example British Airways, American Airlines. Which all have different benefits depending upon what you want.

Not sure where you are based (presume the UK and therefore what follows is irrelevant), the BA program won't accept you if you have an Oz address - they will refer you to the QF program.

If you choose the QF program, be aware of the 4 QF flights per year rule.

...My questions are: Can we book seats in advance (and if yes how) and is worth us joining the Qantas frequent flyer programme.
...You can get seats assigned by phoning the agent who issued the ticket, or you can phone QF and BA directly to request seat assignment. As for FF credit, it depends on the fare basis, it sounds like you may have bought consolidator tickets and some of those are not eligible to earn FF credit in some FF plans (even for business class tickets).

Thanks for the quck replies. Only asked about Frequent Flyer as some years ago we went to Sri Lanka and the only way we could book seats was to join Skywards.