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Qantas routes Australia to/from USA Canada
Looking for awards only on LAX-SYD route restricts your options. AS award chart:---> https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mi...s/award-charts Note these routes and/or aircraft type may change. Not all routes have flights every day. May not be up to date BNE-LAX B330 GeneralMEL-DFW B787 MEL-LAX B787 (was the first A380 route for Qantas on 21 October 2008) MEL-DFW B787 SYD-DFW B787 A380 SYD-HNL SYD-AKL-JFK B787 (from June 2023) SYD-LAX A380 B787 SYD-SFO SYD-YVR The QF A380 have first, business, premium economy & economy classes. Only the A380 has first class. The QF B787's have, business, premium economy & economy classes. The B787’s do not have first class. All QF B747's have been retired and sent to the Mojave desert. (July 2020) QF starts to release their awards 353 days out to QF frequent flyers. But awards can be released any time out to departure. Anyone can join the QF ffp and then search for award availability. Be careful about mixed economy/business QF awards. These have an identifying symbol on the award flight. A business class flight will give access to the Qantas Club or Qantas Business lounge. Major domestic airports have both a Qantas Club lounge, for mid level Oneworld status holders and paid QF club members, and a better Business lounge, with access by business class of service or top level Oneworld status. Domestic lounges can get very busy at morning and late afternoon peaks. From QF web site QF seat maps Qantas Australia domestic Award availability on QF domestic routes in both business & economy is usually OK. Can be harder on longer routes (say 3~ 4 hour flights). The workhorse of QF Mainline domestic fleet is the B737-800. QF have 75 of these in a 12J162Y configuration. Some schedules have a A330, some of which have international style business seats. These 2 aircraft types are also used on trans Tasman routes (Australia to New Zealand). General Qantas information Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas The QantasLink brand is used on regional routes to smaller cities and towns. The aircraft used are Dash 8's (de Havilland Canada DHC-8-200, Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 & Q400) in all an Y configuration, Foker 100 in all 105Y configuration and B717's in 12JY98 or 125Y configuration. General QantasLink information Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QantasLink Qantas information Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QantasLink AA sub forum thread They have the same problems getting awards on QF and to AU/NZ & South Pacific---> AA miles awards: using / redeeming AA miles on Qantas (QF) & related (consolidated) AA MileSAAver award to / from Australia, New Zealand (master thread) FJ / Fiji Airways (ex-Air Pacific) and AA, miles, awards, etc. (consolidated) AA Miles Award: TN / Air Tahiti Nui award redemptions (master thread) Revisions 11 Jun 2022 QF announcements removed (except for 2) as AU is open and QF is flying AU<--->USA 15 Jun 2022 Deleted some dead links 11 Dec 2022 Remove redundant links. Revise routes 27 Dec 2022 MEL DFW added 25 Feb 2023 Formatting 13 Aug 2023 Added SYD-SFO |
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