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Jan 18, 2015, 11:56 pm

3544quebec

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Qantas Flying to Istanbul

Make that Istanbul

Unfortunately for one trip only

SYD-PER-IST 21 April
IST-PER-SYD 28 April

747-400

QF100 Same Flight number there and back - I presume the plane is having an extended rest. Maybe an Anzac Day Gallipoli flyover or is that a bit too disrespectful? Maybe not - Qantas does have a strong history of involvement with our troops during conflicts.

http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airl...direct:lang:en

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Jan 19, 2015, 12:24 am

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Originally Posted by 3544quebec

Qantas does have a strong history of involvement with our troops during conflicts.

Except that with the current Middle East conflicts, Australian troops are / were flown on foreign flag aircraft with foreign crews. Maybe it'll stop with the A330 tankers / transports operating, but it was a poor show with the White tail A340 and Portugese(?) crew flying our guys to war a couple of years ago. Could you imagine the USA doing that?

Jan 19, 2015, 1:51 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 3544quebec

Make that Istanbul

Unfortunately for one trip only

SYD-PER-IST 21 April
IST-PER-SYD 28 April

It's not going to Istanbul Atatürk (IST), it's going to Sabiha Gökçen (SAW).

Jan 19, 2015, 2:11 am

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Managed to score a redemption seat on the inbound. There's a chance I will be in the region around that week, so just might take that flight back to CBR via PER.

Jan 19, 2015, 3:31 am

3544quebec

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Himeno

It's not going to Istanbul Atatürk (IST), it's going to Sabiha Gökçen (SAW).

I didn't notice that the flight was terminating in Asia- does that mean it would be an Oceania-Middle East Redemption in those programs that so structure their award charts? @:-)

Jan 19, 2015, 4:31 am

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Originally Posted by 3544quebec

I didn't notice that the flight was terminating in Asia- does that mean it would be an Oceania-Middle East Redemption in those programs that so structure their award charts? @:-)

Counted as Europe-Oceania through AA.

Jan 20, 2015, 11:40 am

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Qantas Flying to Isanbul

Whole Turkey is in the IATA Europe Region.

Jan 20, 2015, 8:44 pm

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Usual rubbish via the QF Booking engine.

Input SYD-IST for those dates and get offered the QF100 flights to SAW, plus the usual IST alternatives.

MEL-IST returns the usual QF-EK/BA to IST only. MEL-SAW returns nothing.

Regards,

BD