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Old Oct 19, 2015, 5:01 pm
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QF Award Release MEL-LAX and SYD DFW 2016
Appears that QF had a massive release of F awards on DFW-SYD-DFW and LAX-MEL-LAX

or MEL-LAX-MEL and SYD-DFW-SYD)

Started at around 10AM PST....
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/25586622-post284.html
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Old Oct 19, 2015, 5:06 pm
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It's only 1D
SYD-DFW pretty much dead; few dates left for MEL-LAX
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Old Oct 20, 2015, 9:32 am
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I have few awards in late Aug, early Sep than I booked but will be releasing into the wild as I finalize my schedule
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Old Oct 20, 2015, 9:58 am
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Originally Posted by BigRedBears
I have few awards in late Aug, early Sep than I booked but will be releasing into the wild as I finalize my schedule
These don't always go back for others to use as award seats. Sometimes they go back into revenue fare classes - ie lost.
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Old Oct 20, 2015, 12:33 pm
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It's not just US-AU that have been released, there seems to be great availability between UK-AU and AU-NZ too.
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Old Oct 20, 2015, 12:42 pm
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Originally Posted by k_getchell
It's not just US-AU that have been released, there seems to be great availability between UK-AU and AU-NZ too.
Indeed! Just snagged two F seats MEL-LHR for August 2016, heaps of availability SUN-THURS around then.

Perfect timing for me after booking a rather long winded route with only HKG-LHR in F and I got a chunk of cash back with the savings in fees.

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Old Oct 20, 2015, 2:03 pm
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Originally Posted by Funky Spike
Indeed! Just snagged two F seats MEL-LHR for August 2016, heaps of availability SUN-THURS around then.

Perfect timing for me after booking a rather long winded route with only HKG-LHR in F and I got a chunk of cash back with the savings in fees.

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I just did something similar, swapping a mix of AU-HKG in J and HKG-LHR in F to MEL-DXB-LHR all F. Much better option in my book as I love the QF A380
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Old Nov 13, 2015, 7:33 pm
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Any reason there are no awards LAX-MEL/SYD available for early October 2016? Something special going on?
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Old Nov 13, 2015, 11:32 pm
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Originally Posted by Dieuwer
Any reason there are no awards LAX-MEL/SYD available for early October 2016? Something special going on?
They will have been taken. QF freq flyers have access from 353 days. 01 Oct is 322 days from now
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Old Nov 14, 2015, 8:30 am
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Originally Posted by Mwenenzi
They will have been taken. QF freq flyers have access from 353 days. 01 Oct is 322 days from now
There is availability in September but not October. Maybe there is a Holiday period early October?
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Old Nov 14, 2015, 11:36 am
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They will have been taken. QF freq flyers have access from 353 days. 01 Oct is 322 days from now
There is availability in September but not October. Maybe there is a Holiday period early October?
Demand and award availability is never even
The first week of October is school holiday/vacation for all states & territories, so may be more demand for long haul awards.
http://www.australia.gov.au/about-au...ool-term-dates
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Old Nov 14, 2015, 11:44 am
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Originally Posted by Mwenenzi
The first week of October is school holiday/vacation for all states & territories, so may be more demand for long haul awards.
Thanks. That seems to be the "culprit".
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Old Nov 15, 2015, 11:02 am
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Originally Posted by Mwenenzi
Demand and award availability is never even
The first week of October is school holiday/vacation for all states & territories, so may be more demand for long haul awards.
http://www.australia.gov.au/about-au...ool-term-dates
More like QF doesnt release seats duing school holiays as they know they will sell them.

I saw an absolute dearth of seats around April 7-11, which I believe NSW (others?) school holdidays as well
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Old Nov 15, 2015, 12:00 pm
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More like QF doesnt release seats duing school holiays as they know they will sell them.
Actually, they do, but they go very very VERY quickly.

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Old Nov 15, 2015, 12:58 pm
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Originally Posted by thadocta
Actually, they do, but they go very very VERY quickly.

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I dont doubt it.

My little snapshot is just that, a little snapshot- not broad experince...

I have (had ) 600k AVIOS and was sitting on Sabre as QF released every day at 10AM sydney time (and set up alerts too on EF), so not using the AA window... I did not see a single F seat after April 6 until April 11 on either of the SYD flights. On the later mass release alluded to in the OP, there was one F seat on MEL-LAX on 4/7.

I have two F on April 6, which is Wednesday before the vacation starts

Arguably I may have not seen other seats in their first few seconds/minutes of 'life'

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