sorry edy4eva.....I am not too sure what you mean. And I have no experience of how up-to-date Expert Flyer is on such matters

I have never flown via MEL to HVB before so whatever the EK site produces is new to me.

It is ever so easy to book the route I want via Qantas and I assumed in this post link-up era it would be with EK too.

And QF is about £400 cheaper than the EK quote and QF gives me the required HVB to BNE leg too.

But then there are lounge access and tier points to consider too. And I thought this would be easy. WRONG.