Originally Posted by
tallboy
You are correct, except:
The slight downside of the AA itinerary was that they could only confirm me on LA 800 on the trans-pacific sector (they had no availability for a QF 321 code-share seat on the same flight), and they also had no availability on the QF direct service NRT-MEL, so had to book me on CX via HKG (and WL me for the QF direct service). While the CX flight would add some SCs and additional points over the (baseline points for the) QF direct service, it also adds about 7 hrs to the journey (with a quick connect time in HKG but transit via ADL from HKG-MEL).
Also, if I buy via QF I will gain an additional 10 or 11k in QF FF bonus points for purchasing direct from them on my ANZ QF FF credit card.
So, all up a difference of about 20k FF points, as I figure it, but I am happy to be corrected.
tb
I had the same 'question' as
Mwenenzi. The credit card bit I
think I understand. On the flights themselves, this is presumably nothing to do with AA (or QF) and whether 'they' have availability - simply the fact that the D inventory was available when you made the reservation with QF but is not now available - it wouldn't make any difference whether you called AA, QF or CX. The question is, if you 'release' (i.e., cancel) your reservation made with QF, will the D inventory on those flights be released (so you could book it via AA)? That's always uncertain and presumably doesn't matter anyway if you're going with the QF reservation for the extra credit card points.
Definitely good news though that QF now 'understands' the stopover rules.