Qantas Announces Non-Stop Services to Buenos Aires
Mar 28, 2008, 10:31 am
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Waitlisting. Airline websites will generally not let you waitlist for a cheap fare if the booking class is unavailable. Just say I want to book SYD-SIN-NRT-SIN-SYD in D class, but one sector was not avail... If I try to book on the airline website it will just spit out a C or J fare, whereas if I go through an agent I can lock in the 3 avail D sectors and waitlist the 4th.
Nov 18, 2009, 6:35 am
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Any well-informed reason (if not,conspiracy theories welcome 
) as to why QF17 has award availability in all classes on every flight to Buenos Aires in June 2010 but I can't find a single award seat in any class after June 30?
) as to why QF17 has award availability in all classes on every flight to Buenos Aires in June 2010 but I can't find a single award seat in any class after June 30?
Nov 18, 2009, 12:51 pm
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I did think however of a World Cup related reason: Argentina knocks Brasil out of the World Cup with Maradona invoking the Hand of God and Brasil as a consequence invades Argentina causing suspension of QF flight to EZE
Nov 21, 2009, 10:11 pm
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I booked a few premium economy seats for Sep-10 about a month ago. SYD-EZE vv. Virtually every flight was available in premium econ at that stage. Not sure why this would have changed.
Nov 23, 2009, 10:50 am
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Since no conspiracy theorists have reared their heads, I'll chime in - I wonder if the viability of the SYD-EZE flights is in question. QF are still selling seats past June 30 2010, but it would be relatively easy for them to cancel the route and transfer everyone onto their seats on the LAN flights SYD-SCL. Anyone know what the recent loads have been like to EZE?
Nov 23, 2009, 1:00 pm
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- I wonder if the viability of the SYD-EZE flights is in question. QF are still selling seats past June 30 2010, but it would be relatively easy for them to cancel the route and transfer everyone onto their seats on the LAN flights SYD-SCL. Anyone know what the recent loads have been like to EZE?
Nov 23, 2009, 1:45 pm
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Nov 24, 2009, 12:21 am
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Nov 24, 2009, 11:21 am
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As mysteriously as availability disappeared, it has now reappeared^ I shall now withdraw my conspiracy theory musings, although I get the impression that there was not a lot of interest in the topic in the first place
Jan 7, 2010, 1:00 am
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And now I am seeing no QF17 award availability for November and December, and maybe earlier. I did get QF to release a couple of U class seats however. Just hope it still exists then.
And can anybody tell me why 16JK and 17JK are not listed on the seat map either on QF or EF? Crew seats?
And can anybody tell me why 16JK and 17JK are not listed on the seat map either on QF or EF? Crew seats?
Last edited by turtlemichael; Jan 7, 2010 at 5:12 am
Jan 7, 2010, 3:08 am
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Jan 7, 2010, 3:23 am
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QF does do some strange codeshare seating machinations. I just bought AA codeshare on QF LAX-SYD and all seats were available (zero F seats assigned, for a flight a few weeks from now!) except for the first and last row of F; sure enough on qantas.com those seats were also available. So AA has access to the middle 3 rows, while QF uses all 5 rows (strange). Reserving 1A/K is understandable, and presumably row 5 is reserved for the bassinet position.
