A couple of weeks ago I was scoping out a Classic Reward trip from Europe back to MEL for next year. I found flights that I liked, involving a short BA flight into LHR, then LHR-HND followed by NRT-MEL with JL. It priced at 180,000 points (in J) per passenger. I took screenshots, so I'm not imagining any of that!
I just looked again, and exactly the same itinerary is coming up as 214,500 points per passenger. I'm not aware of any changes in the past few weeks that could explain this, so I have to assume either there is a glitch now or there was a glitch a couple of weeks ago.
I believe this trip should be calculated based on the oneworld Classic Flight Reward table, as it involves 2 OW airlines other than QF, and it does not involve any non OW airline. Looking at that table, 180,000 points looks right. There is no J fare of 214,500 points in that table.
Another weird thing - if I vary the dates slightly (e.g. by one day), the cash component changes dramatically (by hundreds of Euros). I didn't think that was supposed to happen either?
Does anyone know what's going on here?
I just looked again, and exactly the same itinerary is coming up as 214,500 points per passenger. I'm not aware of any changes in the past few weeks that could explain this, so I have to assume either there is a glitch now or there was a glitch a couple of weeks ago.
I believe this trip should be calculated based on the oneworld Classic Flight Reward table, as it involves 2 OW airlines other than QF, and it does not involve any non OW airline. Looking at that table, 180,000 points looks right. There is no J fare of 214,500 points in that table.
Another weird thing - if I vary the dates slightly (e.g. by one day), the cash component changes dramatically (by hundreds of Euros). I didn't think that was supposed to happen either?
Does anyone know what's going on here?