Qatar seems to offer two levels of business award, standard/saver for 90k one way , and Flex for 180k one way (Europe-Australia). SQ is about 130k saver and 154k flex.
Appears to be lots of Qatar flex availability but much limited saver awards, and it seems very difficult to search for...
QR availability isn't bad compared to KF.. and will get much better if they are allowed their 28 extra weekly flights.
SQ KF is getting greedy with surcharges... try searching business class on Lufthansa USA-Europe or Thai Europe-Australia
It's not just 355 days out anymore, I found a SYD-SIN-FRA flight in SQ business award seat for a few months from now, even though the SIN-FRA segment wasn't available by itself.
If you're flexible, it's much easier to find business class on Thai Airways from Singapore/Bangkok to London/Frankfurt/Copenhagen/Zurich with Krisflyer miles. (Even though there's a fuel surcharge for booking Thai with Krisflyer miles).
Easiest to check using the Krisflyer website, as it...
Until Australia is VTL , about half of all SQ flights from Europe are off limits.
SQ is pretty strict about VTL in Europe - they are listing individual EU countries and requiring an official EU vaccine certificate issued by a VTL country.
E.g. you can't visit Belgium during the 14 days...
I think the federal govt will mandate vaccination for adult travellers to Australia.. especially foreign students and tourists... Then have a pre-approval system for unvaxxed, which allocates quarantine capacity.
So at check-in it's either "vaccine certificate" or "unvaxxed travel permit"...
I wonder how many people book an award listed in the Business or First column, then are peeved when they find themselves sitting in Economy for all but 1 of their flights.
I haven't seen QF disclose much about their FF accounting
I guess they sell points to banks at , say 1c/pt, then part of that 1c/pt is immediate profit, and the rest is deferred until the points are used / expire / member dies. And I guess the banks are able to prepay QF for xx_ million points...