Tens of thousands of new international reward seats to be released Friday 24 Feb
Feb 23, 2023, 6:30 pm
#16
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: MUC
Programs: LT Marriott Gold, Velocity Gold, Accor Gold
Posts: 335
boy what a mess. There might be flights available but has anyone actually managed to book anything? Even when I find a flight after multiple attempts to get the site to load, when it's selected the site crashes again. Yep, Alan Joyce you are correct, QF continue to provide outstanding value to their customrs.
Feb 23, 2023, 6:48 pm
#17
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: LAX/SFO
Programs: AS 100k, BA GGL, UA 1k, DL DM, AC SE, B6 Mosaic4, Hyatt/Hilton/Wyndham/IHG Diamond, Marriot Ti
Posts: 1,248
It is reported, and I have seen the PDF to agents, outlining that certain periods of the year, days of the week etc are blackouts for award seat requests and should not be put to the droid as they are programmed to decline. Even P1s cannot have these manually released by rev management.
QF1/2 June, July & August is one example.
I saw mid July in F on QF1 available this morning.
QF1/2 June, July & August is one example.
I saw mid July in F on QF1 available this morning.
Edit: AS is bookable at 70k each way in F.
Last edited by TalkingPoint; Feb 23, 2023 at 9:11 pm
Feb 23, 2023, 7:13 pm
#18
Join Date: Mar 2010
Programs: AA, UA, Marriott
Posts: 1,103
I just tried to book via AA phone reservations and the agent told me their QF link is down. Everything is coming back as unconfirmed, my request included. I saw F space on BA's site but AA couldnt confirm it.
Feb 23, 2023, 9:23 pm
#19
Join Date: Nov 2019
Posts: 44
Didn't find anything on Alaska
The best redemption of Qantas LAX-SYD option is through Alaska miles which is 55K for business class award ticket. I checked around 8 PM tonight and there was nothing in the summer except for economy award ticket priced at 42.5K... Not going to transfer my points to Qantas's own program as it is much more expensive.
Feb 23, 2023, 9:29 pm
#20
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: MEL CHC
Posts: 21,009
shootaaa Welcome to FT
Just looking for LAX-SYD restricts you options a lot. QF flys from/to more airports than just LAX & SYD
Folks in the AS ffp have been getting awards today. By phone seem best.
AS forum--> Consolidated Qantas (QF) Awards Availability/Booking/Routing Thread
But is disappointment these awards have *also* been released to partners. And for QF freq flyer days out available is determined by status. Being the same OW equivalent status with another OW ffp those frequent flyers/frequent spenders may have better availability than for QF's own frequent flyers.
From what I have read in the last few hours the partner ffp's web site/phone seem a lot better than the QF's web site/phone for getting awards on QF flights.
The best redemption of Qantas LAX-SYD option is through Alaska miles which is 55K for business class award ticket. I checked around 8 PM tonight and there was nothing in the summer except for economy award ticket priced at 42.5K... Not going to transfer my points to Qantas's own program as it is much more expensive.
Folks in the AS ffp have been getting awards today. By phone seem best.
AS forum--> Consolidated Qantas (QF) Awards Availability/Booking/Routing Thread
But is disappointment these awards have *also* been released to partners. And for QF freq flyer days out available is determined by status. Being the same OW equivalent status with another OW ffp those frequent flyers/frequent spenders may have better availability than for QF's own frequent flyers.
From what I have read in the last few hours the partner ffp's web site/phone seem a lot better than the QF's web site/phone for getting awards on QF flights.
Last edited by Mwenenzi; Feb 23, 2023 at 10:06 pm
Feb 23, 2023, 11:55 pm
#22
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: LAX/SFO
Programs: AS 100k, BA GGL, UA 1k, DL DM, AC SE, B6 Mosaic4, Hyatt/Hilton/Wyndham/IHG Diamond, Marriot Ti
Posts: 1,248
Feb 24, 2023, 1:46 am
#23
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Australia
Programs: KrisFlyer, AA, Qantas, SPG, Marriott
Posts: 591
The website finally started working, I finally found a good enough route (it was still 3 stops to get to Morocco). I tried to click to see points needed, the website timed out. 6 times in a row.
When I finally got it to work, the seats were gone, jesus.
When I finally got it to work, the seats were gone, jesus.
Feb 24, 2023, 7:17 am
#24
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 60
Nothing on AA.com so far, I checked at 530 and 0630 PST
Nothing on AA.com so far early Friday morning local time in San Francisco. I have been trying for months and the best I found on SFO-SYD in PE/BC and nothing has come up. A few days in the last six months had coach QF sfo FF coach available but the AA web site would not allow them to be booked. I am hedged on AA.
Is QF sending seats PE/BC to American?
Is QF sending seats PE/BC to American?
Feb 24, 2023, 7:56 am
#25
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Programs: DL PM, MR Titanium/LTP, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 10,130
Was able to book 2x J LAX - SYD via BA last night (US time) for beginning of December. Was going to transfer to and use QF (because it's cheaper than BA) but the website kept erroring out and didn't want to lose the space (lost the return SYD - LAX while trying to get it pulled up on QF.com) and had some excess BA anyway from a canceled COVID trip to Europe
Feb 24, 2023, 8:21 am
#26
Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 3
Have to call AA to book it - usually doesn't show up on the website. Find the availability through another channel and then call AA to book. Also AA seems to still have visibility but everything they try to hold is coming back as unconfirmed - this is a change from early yesterday evening when the space was initially released.
Feb 24, 2023, 9:15 am
#28
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: ORD
Programs: Once a somebody now a nobody
Posts: 514
Was able to book LAX-SYD and then MEL-LAX both in J via AA. As a Plat Pro the AA award travel phone desk wait was a 30m wait when i called...but was surprising able to book them via AA's chat. Our ultimate goal is to do New Zealand this trip and was kinda bummed by the lack of saver awards (in either J or Y) on the AUS to NZ flights.
Feb 24, 2023, 10:17 am
#29
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: SYD, GOT
Programs: BA GGL; SK EBG; QF LTG; Hilton Diamond, A-Club Platinum, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 2,722
Au/NZ has lots of cheap options due to reasonable competition with QF, NZ, JQ, LA, EK, QR etc. unless you are looking at ZQN at ski season or school holidays you should be able to find something.