Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
That is correcr. There will be one award for UK-Middle East and one award for Middle East to South West Pacific
The only way to avoid it, is to book with another carrier on a rpermitted routing for UK-Australia ( via Doha on QR , via Dubai on QF or via Asia )
I believe QF have discontinued their DXB flights. They now fly the A380 from SYD and MEL to SIN with only the SYD flight carrying on to LHR. There’s good award space between Australia and SIN but not between SIN and LHR. I guess you could always connect on BA/MH/etc. to Europe instead.
The second set of LHR slots was reassigned to the new MEL-PER-LHR service. I assume PER-LHR would be a valid routing since there is no transit in a third region.