Originally Posted by
number_6
On Qantas FF plan you would earn enough points for a one-way 600 mile award (so you could do TXL-MUC which is 300 miles and go via LHR, HEL, MAD and soon BUD). So the points are not quite orphaned (but almost).
No you can't. I think you misunderstand how QFF awards work.
Originally Posted by www.qantas.com.au
The number of points you need for an Award flight on Qantas and our partner airlines is calculated by adding up the one-way trips in your itinerary. There are no charges for stopovers, or for any non-flown (surface) segments. Your itinerary may have no more than 16 flights or surface segments. However, if the total distance of a single trip is over 15,000 miles, the trip must be broken down into sub-trips in order to calculate the number of points you need.
and then in the
T&Cs, trip is defined as
'Trip' means a series of one or more consecutive Flight Segments within an Itinerary:
(a) that does not include:
(i) a Stopover; or
(ii) a Flight Segment whose arrival city is the same as the departure city of any other Flight Segment in that series, (in this instance the Trip will be broken at the farthest point from the departure city for that series);
(b) not exceeding the maximum permitted miles in the Award Flight tables; or
(c) not broken by a change from any airline to, or from, the following airlines:Alaska Airlines, Aer Lingus, Cathay Pacific Airways, Finnair, Iberia, LAN, Air Niugini, Alitalia, El Al, Jet Airways, Jetstar Asia, SAS, or US Airways;
Of those examples TXL-LHR-MUC is the shortest and just fits into a zone 2 (600-1200 miles) award.
However TXL-LHR oneway nicely fits a zone 1 award.