Seats.aero - a useful tool for finding Qantas & Velocity reward availability

[SYD]

Thank you very much. I would never have discovered that.
The results confirm how bad QF availability is. Not a single J seat from now out 11 months on that route.
Back to the drawing board.

As QF WP, you could try calling to get seats released.

 

[KangaFlew]

Tks for your suggestion. QF have previously refused to release J seats when booking OW RTW J (paid) ticket as they say it is a low Class not available for special treatment. I've never been able to fly J from Japan to MEL with QF on RTW ticket. Take JQ or go via Taipei and or HKG. Odd that QF prefer their own WP's to fly with CX than with QF. SYD-SCL was the only QF flight on the trip. Can QF ask other airlines to release J seats? We have a few million QF points, but can't spend them efficiently. I'll prepare detailed itinerary and ring QF to see what is possible. Not confident.

 

[BriarFlyer]

Can QF ask other airlines to release J seats?

No, only Qantas flights can be requested.

 

[billmurray]

Hell yeah!

Finally an alert has proven to be valid (Had a lot of duds before where no availability was shown) for my upcoming SYD - HND In J with ANA.

Got the notification after sailing and booked immediately!

 

[trendwhore]

Hell yeah!

Finally an alert has proven to be valid (Had a lot of duds before where no availability was shown) for my upcoming SYD - HND In J with ANA.

Got the notification after sailing and booked immediately!

lol you might've pinched one that I was looking at

 

[billmurray]

lol you might've pinched one that I was looking at

11th Nov?

 

[Hadun]

Finally an alert has proven to be valid (Had a lot of duds before where no availability was shown) for my upcoming SYD - HND In J with ANA.

What were your dates? They were pretty prompt with alerts for F on that route awhile back for releases in OCT/NOV.

 

[billmurray]

What were your dates? They were pretty prompt with alerts for F on that route awhile back for releases in OCT/NOV.

 

[Hadun]

Ah right the Fs were for JAL through qantas. Also still stuff available if anyone else was still looking:

 

[trendwhore]

11th Nov?

Oh sorry I was looking the other direction HND-SYD, a few opened up as well

 

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[luxury-lizard]

I jumped on the BF deal and bought a 1 year subscription. Just trying it out and looking for awards using AC - searched SIN-FRA over a 3 month period and there were many dates with SIN-FRA in J on SQ (using AC points) - so I then checked on the AC site and none of these were available.

Am I doing something wrong or is this tool not working for AC awards? (I am quite a "newbie" using this so it may be a user error - must read the AFF guide I just located.

 

[Bolthead]

I jumped on the BF deal and bought a 1 year subscription. Just trying it out and looking for awards using AC - searched SIN-FRA over a 3 month period and there were many dates with SIN-FRA in J on SQ (using AC points) - so I then checked on the AC site and none of these were available.

Am I doing something wrong or is this tool not working for AC awards? (I am quite a "newbie" using this so it may be a user error - must read the AFF guide I just located.

I just has a quick look and all the flights fron SIN-FRA were via either BKK or DEL. Because I didn't know the exact dates I just guessed a period of time, and yes there appears to be plenty of J flights. Can I suggest when you find the date and flight in Seats.aero go to the info button on the screen at the end of the selection and that will tell show you the actual flights. There is also a link to Air Canada as well. Hopefully that will hope you.....

 

[luxury-lizard]

I just has a quick look and all the flights fron SIN-FRA were via either BKK or DEL. Because I didn't know the exact dates I just guessed a period of time, and yes there appears to be plenty of J flights. Can I suggest when you find the date and flight in Seats.aero go to the info button on the screen at the end of the selection and that will tell show you the actual flights. There is also a link to Air Canada as well. Hopefully that will hope you.....

I think you're right - when using the EXPLORE option results checked out - will do some more user training.