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    No more AA awards SYD-CHC or SYD-ZQN?

    Ah, ok. I will call AA again, then. I did not know that one can now check AA QF award online. That helps heaps. I can see a few open dates now. Thanks.
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    No more AA awards SYD-CHC or SYD-ZQN?

    I asked for any available date from 01JAN2015 onwards. No seats on both routes. Last year my AA award routing was: Carrier Flight # Departing Arriving Fare Code Qantas Airways 121 SYDNEY SAT 18JAN 8:40 AM QUEENSTOWN NZ FRI 17JAN 1:40 PM X Qantas...
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    No more AA awards SYD-CHC or SYD-ZQN?

    Just crawled out from under my stone to try to book 3 AA awards SYD-ZQN or SYD-CHC for early next year as I had successfully done last year. Called AA reservations and was informed by the CSR that SYD-CHC and SYD-ZQN do not come up as valid city pairs for award booking.:?: Trying to get some...
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    Award Ticket Fees on the Rise?

    Qantas' strength certainly lies more in marketing their program to the people than in the value of their FF points. All my points crept up via CC spending with boni from Woolies and Optus. As we have now switched to Aldi and Eftpos (for a gross 8% advantage over Woolies) that stream will largely...
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    Award Ticket Fees on the Rise?

    Just booked a SYD-FRA RT award. Fees/Taxes for SYD-SIN-FRA-SIN-SYD all on QF5/6 showed up as $997.40 Booking SYD(BA)-SIN(QF)-FRA(CX)-HKG(CX)-SYD brought them down to $824.98. Easy $170 saved. Flight times are also 10 minutes quicker then going QF direct. Finally I got rid of my QFF points now...
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