Codes for WHY
 

Hi there, first time poster, long time reader.

I have flights booked to, around, and from Australia in April on Qantas. I will be flying in WHY and would like to ask if anyone could tell me the following.

What do the letters mean after Economy? Economy (Q), Economy (S), Economy (M) etc? What will it affect?

Me and my partner are on the same flight, but I have (S) and she has (M). We didn't book together, but at the same time on their site.

Anything else I need to know, or that can help me? First time I've flown Qantas. Have signed up for FF club, every little helps lol.

Thanks. ^

This is a link to Oz Domestic flight fare types. I guess Q is your internationial flight into Oz. Can change how many miles you get on the AA ffp

Depending on where you live and you future flights you may be better joining AAdvantage freq flyer program. Has better earn to burn rates compared to QF

Oh, so it's just the fare type booked. Well, I just chose the flights I needed and it gave me the price, lol.

In the UK, so I don't think I'd fly AA that much. Usually VS or CO to the US.

They are all in the same cabin, but the different booking classes - M, Q, O and so on - are to enable an airline to limit the number of seats they sell at a certain fare level.

Dave

Ok thanks. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't how they decide where in the cabin the put someone or something similar.

I'm in the UK, so I don't think I will get to fly AA much, as usually fly VS and CO to the US.

You don't need to fly AA to be in their FF program, and you can redeem across any OW carrier and many other airlines who they are partnered with. Alot of QF flyers prefer to be in AA's program because it offers much better earn/burn rates compared to QF's program.

Really? So it would be worth me signing up with AAdvantage then, and changing my FF number on my booking.

Is there much difference to the rewards?

M earns 50% miles on AAdvantage, and 1.0 QP/mile, while S earns 50% miles and 0.5 QP/mile. The Plat challenge is for Qpoints, so M earns twice as much for the challenge as the S fare does.

You don't say where in Australia you are going, but LHR-SYD-LHR is 21K miles. The S fare would earn 10.5K Qpoints and qualify for the Platinum challenge, while the M fare would earn 5.3K and qualify for a Gold challenge but you'd have to fly to Australia again within 90 days to get enough points to meet the Platinum challenge.

Edit to add that rules changed Jan 2007 for the AA Platinum challenge, making non-AA flights ineligible. Sorry.

Yes, for redemptions it is, LHR-SYD-LHR for example would cost 90K/120k/160k in either Y/J/F on QF that would be 128k/256k/384k. Also if you get any Plat status or higher with AA you get 100% mileage bonus on all OW flights.

Ok. Well I am flying LHR-SYD (Q), SYD-MEL (S), MEL-ADL (S) ADL-LHR (S) and my g/f is going LHR-SYD (Q), SYD-MEL (M), MEL-LHR (M).

No idea why the different fare classes for the both of us, thats just what they assigned us. We both signed up for QF FF program and put our numbers on our bookings.

Haven't got any plans to go to Oz again yet, possibly somewhere else though.

Both of these are wrong: AA-coded flights only for the challenge these days.

Forgot about the rule change a couple of weeks ago, you are right.

FWIW, Flying QF in Q class does not earn on AAvantage so the challenge is MOOT.

For these flights, I guess QF would be the bast way to go; you would both earn about 21,500 QFF points each, when combined would be around 43,000 points.

http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/...s/pointsTables

43,000 points is enough for a one-way journey up to 7,000 miles or a return up to 2,400 miles each way.

So keeping our QF FF numbers and getting their points would be best.

We will keep our points seperate we both signed up for FF, so we can either get a one-way flight upto 2,400 miles for just tax + charges.