Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[cjd600]

QFF Call centre has told me I can book one of these online. Am I missing something in that when I use the "Round the World" tool it won't let me choose points/rewards? Or is there a misunderstanding and she's talking multi-city and I said (more than once) Round the World Award flights?

It's not a Round the World booking.
It's a One World Award.
You need to build your itinerary using the multi city tool., select Use Points - Classic Flight Rewards only

 

[11sjw]

It's not a Round the World booking.
It's a One World Award.
You need to build your itinerary using the multi city tool., select Use Points - Classic Flight Rewards only

Thank you.

 

[11sjw]

It's not a Round the World booking.
It's a One World Award.
You need to build your itinerary using the multi city tool., select Use Points - Classic Flight Rewards only

Got that done for a trial routing. We wish to travel PER-YYZ-DCA-Train Travel-New York (any airport)-FRA-PVG-PER

The multi city tool and iterations around J availability for 3 has us travelling PER-SYD-DFW-YYZ-LGA-DCA-train-EWR-LHR-FRA-PVG-HKG-PER. Great Circle Mapper tells me this is under 30k miles. Stopovers YYZ, DCA, FRA, PVG and 10 sectors in total. Airlines utilised are QF, AA, BA, MU & CX.

Is there a trick to get this recognised as a OWJ Award? It currently tells me I need 360k points per person. Seems like a call to QFF is in order!

 

[rock86]

Got that done for a trial routing. We wish to travel PER-YYZ-DCA-Train Travel-New York (any airport)-FRA-PVG-PER

The multi city tool and iterations around J availability for 3 has us travelling PER-SYD-DFW-YYZ-LGA-DCA-train-EWR-LHR-FRA-PVG-HKG-PER. Great Circle Mapper tells me this is under 30k miles. Stopovers YYZ, DCA, FRA, PVG and 10 sectors in total. Airlines utilised are QF, AA, BA, MU & CX.

Is there a trick to get this recognised as a OWJ Award? It currently tells me I need 360k points per person. Seems like a call to QFF is in order!

MU is not partnof Oneworld, hence the reason ypur dummy booking is coming to 360k points.

 

[jeza]

Got that done for a trial routing. We wish to travel PER-YYZ-DCA-Train Travel-New York (any airport)-FRA-PVG-PER

The multi city tool and iterations around J availability for 3 has us travelling PER-SYD-DFW-YYZ-LGA-DCA-train-EWR-LHR-FRA-PVG-HKG-PER. Great Circle Mapper tells me this is under 30k miles. Stopovers YYZ, DCA, FRA, PVG and 10 sectors in total. Airlines utilised are QF, AA, BA, MU & CX.

Is there a trick to get this recognised as a OWJ Award? It currently tells me I need 360k points per person. Seems like a call to QFF is in order!

Is MU China Eastern? If so I don't think that is part of the Oneworld airlines.

Member Airlines - 13 airlines, multi destination flights

 

[11sjw]

MU is not partnof Oneworld, hence the reason ypur dummy booking is coming to 360k points.

Damn, will look at that. Thank you.

 

[rock86]

MU is not partnof Oneworld, hence the reason ypur dummy booking is coming to 360k points.

Damn, will look at that. Thank you.

No worries, sorry about the terrible spelling in my post!!

 

[11sjw]

No worries, sorry about the terrible spelling in my post!!

I'm not that much of a grammar naz_. Especially when asking for help. Your advice got it sorted so thanks again.

App $5.2k surcharges!

 

[rock86]

I'm not that much of a grammar naz_. Especially when asking for help. Your advice got it sorted so thanks again.

App $5.2k surcharges!

For 2 pax?

 

[11sjw]

For 2 pax?

3 "Adults." Little Miss soon turns 12!

 

[rock86]

3 "Adults." Little Miss soon turns 12!

Hmm, are you able to post the routes with each airline, it will give us a bit better of an idea of where the $$ in the surcharges are coming from.

 

[11sjw]

Hmm, are you able to post the routes with each airline, it will give us a bit better of an idea of where the $$ in the surcharges are coming from.

Sure

24th July 2019 PER-SYD-DFW (QF) - YYZ (AA)
7th Aug 2019 YYZ-LGA-DCA (Republic as American Eagle)
18th Aug 2019 JFK-LHR-FRA (BA)
25th Aug 2019 FRA-DIA-KUL (QR)
01st Sep 2019 KUL-HKG-PER (Cathay Dragon & CX)

 

[cjd600]

Sure

24th July 2019 PER-SYD-DFW (QF) - YYZ (AA)
7th Aug 2019 YYZ-LGA-DCA (Republic as American Eagle)
18th Aug 2019 JFK-LHR-FRA (BA)
25th Aug 2019 FRA-DIA-KUL (QR)
01st Sep 2019 KUL-HKG-PER (Cathay Dragon & CX)

QF, BA and QR don’t help with the carrier charge total. If you click on the breakdown where it gives you this total, you might be able to work out what is what. It’s not toooo bad for a trip like that in J!

 

[ellen10]

Still looking at flight options, BCN - HKG
Any thoughts on RJ in J?

 

[cjd600]

Still looking at flight options, BCN - HKG
Any thoughts on RJ in J?

Can't comment on RJ,sorry.
There's some QR availability FCO-HKG 17/10, 18/10 if that helps.
Likely need to BCN-MAD-FCO though

 

[cjd600]

MU is not partnof Oneworld, hence the reason ypur dummy booking is coming to 360k points.

It'd be great if the search function had a 'One World Only' checkbox.......stop the eyes lighting up at the apparent find of a rare gem, only to discover on clicking through that its MU, EK, etc

 

[rock86]

Sure

24th July 2019 PER-SYD-DFW (QF) - YYZ (AA)
7th Aug 2019 YYZ-LGA-DCA (Republic as American Eagle)
18th Aug 2019 JFK-LHR-FRA (BA)
25th Aug 2019 FRA-DIA-KUL (QR)
01st Sep 2019 KUL-HKG-PER (Cathay Dragon & CX)

Carrier surcharges for your legs are approximately:
QF $349
BA $313
QR $519
CX $145

Now the reason for the high QR flights is that one of your legs is on a QSuite plane and QR charge an additional fee (I think it's around USD100) on top of their fuel fines to redeem points on their most premium product. Whether people think it is worth it or not is in the eye of the beholder I guess, but it sure looks like a mighty good J product! (and one I can't wait to try in the future)

 

[11sjw]

QF, BA and QR don’t help with the carrier charge total. If you click on the breakdown where it gives you this total, you might be able to work out what is what. It’s not toooo bad for a trip like that in J!

Thank you again. I'll keep playing around with it. Little Miss has a research project that will help her choose a stopover city so we could turn the whole thing upside down.

With that level of surcharge I'm tempted to book an F route Emirates PER-JFK (why not huh?) and book the rest as individual segments outside of that. A couple of variations I've tried seem to result in 1.1M Points and surcharges at the $6k level.

Time to churn another credit card me thinks!

 

[11sjw]

Carrier surcharges for your legs are approximately:
QF $349
BA $313
QR $519
CX $145

Now the reason for the high QR flights is that one of your legs is on a QSuite plane and QR charge an additional fee (I think it's around USD100) on top of their fuel fines to redeem points on their most premium product. Whether people think it is worth it or not is in the eye of the beholder I guess, but it sure looks like a mighty good J product! (and one I can't wait to try in the future)

Thanks for the breakdown. This info is proving valuable for our forward planning.

 

[cjd600]

Carrier surcharges for your legs are approximately:
QF $349
BA $313
QR $519
CX $145

Now the reason for the high QR flights is that one of your legs is on a QSuite plane and QR charge an additional fee (I think it's around USD100) on top of their fuel fines to redeem points on their most premium product. Whether people think it is worth it or not is in the eye of the beholder I guess, but it sure looks like a mighty good J product! (and one I can't wait to try in the future)

The USD100 Q Suite 'fee' only applies to revenue bookings per sector, and is applied to the base fare.
No difference in ++ $ between Q Suite J award and A380 J award