Originally Posted by
amj134
Hi everyone - I'm starting to plan to book our Qantas classic reward booking business class flights one way from Europe to Syd next year in Aug/Sept - we specifically want to fly on Qatar codeshare so we can travel with the qsuites. My Qantas status is only bronze so looking at the furthest date out to book which is currently end of May I can see only economy flights from Europe back to Sydney with Qatar - other airlines I can see business reward seats but not for qatar. Do you think if I called qantas they would have access to business seats that show as unavailable on the qantas website? Any advice would be great - I'm happy to fly out of most European cities back to Sydney, currently I have searched flying from LHR, MAN, AMS, FRA, CDG, all only displaying economy Qatar classic reward seats.
Awards are almost always booked on native flights: not code shares. A very few exceptions in the South Pacific.
Belong realistic for QR Qsuite, QF bronze (no status) and "our/we" [2 people?] you chances of getting these desirable awards are close to nil. Or less
QF will steer you to QF LHR flights and/or EK.
Time to start looking for other awards to BNE/SYD/MEL/ADL. Availability from T-297 days is what has been reported for QF non status/bronze.