Can confirm there is a disparity between what we can see on line, and what can actually be ticketed.
I use ‘ticketed’ because QF seems to have implemented secret restrictions which mean flight combinations otherwise perfectly within the rules are being stopped because of commercial considerations.
There’s another thread discussing how domestic segments can’t be added on to inbound QFi flights… so even though the multi-city tool shows flights for SIN-SYD and SYD-MEL, you’ll get an error.
Calling in the call centre can’t see any domestic connections in conjunction with the inbound SIN-SYD.
Those routings are perfectly valid, they show in the multi-city tool, but it seems commercial considerations are being given priority.
Given some of the issues outlined above with various connecting flights being ‘unavailable’, this seems like it is going to become more widespread
Of course you can ticket the connections if using a separate booking and paying the increased fare.
A couple of other points from the last few pages.
The multi-city tool will often error out if you attempt to book something using all 6 available flights. Limiting it to 5 should help on the planning process, before calling to book all the flights you need.
The second issue, and this has happened twice on call to SA this week… agents are claiming you can book two sets of flights separately and they can combine them. This is *not* possible. Once flights are on separate PNRs that’s where they stay. They can ‘link’ the bookings, but you’ll lose any through-fare benefits.