Definitely good news though that QF now 'understands' the stopover rules.
Agreed, although I guess it may be stretching to claim that 'QF' now understands. I suppose the key take-away here is that if you are having trouble with QF rez refer the CSA to "Industry Sales" (and hope that they come up with the same response). I certainly believe that demonstrating that AA had no problem with my itinerary (and indicating that I was happy to pass my $10k or so to them...) inspired a bit more self-examination.
I had the same 'question' as Mwenenzi. The credit card bit I think I understand.
This is a common deal for ANZ bank issued "QF FF" Visa and DC cards here in Oz: I think you get 1 bonus FF point for every 1$ spent directly with QF, over and above other FF points earnt on monthly spend.
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.
Agree also regarding the availability of D inventory, but I assume that there is absolutely no way to guarantee that any released inventory would come my way ~ too many uncontrolled variables, I suspect...
Thanks,
tb