Seat selection fee
Dec 17, 2018, 10:42 pm
#1
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Join Date: Aug 2018
Posts: 5
Seat selection fee
Is Qantas seat selection fee + extra legroom charged per flight or booking? Assuming a sale economy fare.
Eg. 1 booking reference. MEL > LHR (Layover SIN)
Would this be 2x seat selection + 2x extra legroom fees?
Wondering if it's cheaper to just fly premium economy with another carrier.
Eg. 1 booking reference. MEL > LHR (Layover SIN)
Would this be 2x seat selection + 2x extra legroom fees?
Wondering if it's cheaper to just fly premium economy with another carrier.
Dec 17, 2018, 11:00 pm
#2
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: MEL CHC
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Just go to the QF web site and do a dummy reservation. Quit before it asks for cc details.
By "layover" do you mean same day/24hr transit or a stop in SIN for more than 24 hrs?
QF also fly MEL-PER-LHR
Edit 1
Just did a dummy search booking for MEL-SIN-LHR for random day in March 2019
Each flight had a extra legroom fee $115 & $130. Standard seat had no fee.
Premium economy flight are often 75% -100% more than economy
If you can find a PE on another airline for ~$250 more than QF economy go for it.
There are other airlines who will be cheaper than QF (~Asian Chinese)
Edit 2
$1276 saver economy one way
$2737 premium economy one way
on the dates as edit 1
By "layover" do you mean same day/24hr transit or a stop in SIN for more than 24 hrs?
QF also fly MEL-PER-LHR
Edit 1
Just did a dummy search booking for MEL-SIN-LHR for random day in March 2019
Each flight had a extra legroom fee $115 & $130. Standard seat had no fee.
Premium economy flight are often 75% -100% more than economy
If you can find a PE on another airline for ~$250 more than QF economy go for it.
There are other airlines who will be cheaper than QF (~Asian Chinese)
Edit 2
$1276 saver economy one way
$2737 premium economy one way
on the dates as edit 1
Last edited by Mwenenzi; Dec 17, 2018 at 11:39 pm
Dec 17, 2018, 11:13 pm
#4
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Singapore
Programs: QF LTG, SQ EGTP, Bonvoy LTG
Posts: 4,847
Is Qantas seat selection fee + extra legroom charged per flight or booking? Assuming a sale economy fare.
Eg. 1 booking reference. MEL > LHR (Layover SIN)
Would this be 2x seat selection + 2x extra legroom fees?
Wondering if it's cheaper to just fly premium economy with another carrier.
Eg. 1 booking reference. MEL > LHR (Layover SIN)
Would this be 2x seat selection + 2x extra legroom fees?
Wondering if it's cheaper to just fly premium economy with another carrier.
For a standard economy seat on a sale fare (free for saver fares and above) this means someone travelling MEL-SIN-LHR will have to pay $70 for seat selection, whereas someone travelling SYD-SIN-LHR on QF2 will only have one flight, and only have to pay $35 for the privilege of selecting a seat.
However If you select extra legroom seat, you only get charged that fee, not the seat selection fee as well (it is either/or, not both). If you are the single flight number all the way through (eg QF1 SYD-LHR or QF9 MEL-LHR), you only get charged a single extra legroom fee, but it is a higher fee than the single sectors (so you aren't paying double, just $50 more!).
Dec 18, 2018, 12:27 am
#5
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tasmania, Australia
Programs: M&M SEN, Amex Plat, Club Carlson, Marriott, HHonors & Accor Gold, Velocity Silver, Qantas Bronze
Posts: 3,767
IMHO, Qantas it the most expensive carrier between AU and EU... I can get two business class tickets on LH (using TG/SQ between AU and Asia) for a price of one on QF... And because I am interested in real Europe (the continent, not UK/LHR) flight times are much better too...To be honest. not sure about any other class - I have never flown anything else than J between AU and EU since 2000...