Sorry if this has been covered before, but I'd be interested in an article/podcast episode explaining why flights get cancelled so far in advance.
Let's take a reward flight trip I had planned for FEBRUARY 2024:
30 March 2023 : Original Booking
22 May 2023 : Email from Qantas stating 2x of the...
Is anyone else having troubles with the Qantas bookings area of the website lately? For the past 2 weeks I get this message when I view my bookings:
"Please try again now or come back later. If you need further assistance contact the Frequent Flyer Service Centre."
I have a bunch of...
I thought things might be going in the right direction but a weekend away for my birthday proved otherwise.
Friday: HBA-MEL ... delayed by 6 hours (there goes my tickets to an exhibition, birthday lunch with a friend, move back dinner reservation by 2 hours and give me no free time)
Sunday...
To be honest I don't remember if it was "E" fare PremEco. I was so frazzled from Qantas cancelling my business class reward flights home from Europe I had to book something and ended up forking out for these tickets last minute and in the back of my mind was "well, at least I'll be earning extra...
I booked/flew 3x flights through Finnair recently and when I went to claim the points through Qantas (I had entered my QFF number into my Finnair booking), 1x came back with points but the other two did not.
Looking at the my tickets, it had:
CDG-HEL : Finnair - Economy (Ticket Class Y) =...
I ended up calling the main phone line (ie the long wait one) and told them I needed the points I was owed so I could make another booking. They did the points refund straight away.
Luckily for me, it was just points I was waiting on, and not money though.