Qantas business with BA avios?
 

Is it at all possible to book Qantas business class seats using BA avios?

Yes, very much so, though London to Australia is far from easy to find availability on.

It's quite easy to find availability and get very good value out of domestic and short-haul flights though.

Yes I’ve booked this for domestic flights. There’s nodmally quite good availability on BA.com for Qantas domestic redemptions. Not sure about international.

Welcome to FT, chandrau!It's certainly equally possible on international, although availability can always be an issue.

chandrau might find more help in the sticky thread at the top of the board: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...l#post27691531

It's also worthwhile to note a lot of QF destinations aren't loaded to BA.com. Unless it is a shared destination or a popular city, its unlikely to be loaded. Best way to check is to head over to qantas.com.au and check out award availability there for the route you want to book. (look for the seat symbol next to the various chargeable fare types). If the seat symbol shows up then there's award space. You would then need to call Exec Club to make a booking / check out the applicable taxes.

I’ve found it works if you use the three letter airport code only rather than try to type the name.

Correction - seat symbol has been updated to a rosette symbol

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WOW that's a new feature on Ba.com then. I redeemed avios for HTI earlier this year and got the destination not found message. Thanks for that^

No, not new and frequently referenced in this forum. For many years now, any oneworld destination which fails the look-up can usually be found by using the 3 letter codes and pressing onwards. Works best on My Executive Club pages, on the bar down the left. Particularly useful for Cathay destinations.

Then why the destination not found response?

If there is availability on the day/week, then it should come up in the usual way. The "destination not found" response won't show from My Executive Club.

If you're flying to a destination only served by QantasLink, or where QantasLink has the only available award space, I've often found that this space is not bookable online but is accessible over the phone.

This makes sense - was a SYD-HTI-BNE redemption with both sectors operated by Qantaslink

I booked CBR-MEL-HBA over the phone last week. I had to call because of the “not found” message in respect of HBA. The flights were U2.

I didn’t know there was a way around the “our partners don’t fly here” message. (Yes they do ... so annoying, just be honest if you’re crap.)

Brilliant value, by the way; the revenue price was £462 and would have earned me fewer than 1000 Avios.

I've just given it a quick test (so these may not be reliable results). It looks like it's now possible to book Jetconnect online. But I still can't get Qantaslink flights to show up.