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Thanks for your input everyone. Safety and flying stress-free is important to us, so we'll probably give this deal a miss.

The cheap fare is on AI with a transfer to another plane in Delhi, so no need to transfer to another carrier or get out of the airport. Hopefully that should all go smoothly then, but it's a short layover and I did see the HK-DEL flight gets delayed sometimes. So not ideal, and your information...

Thank you very much for this thoughtful response. I'll try to find out a bit more about the flights and the planes being used.

May I ask why not? I have seen some negative sentiment online, but without details and not knowing the airline at all, I'm trying to find out what the issues are that people have with them. 1684992956 When you say they're bad enough for a short flight, what exactly is bad about the airline, if...

I've been trying to find J class Qantas reward seats from Melbourne to Amsterdam for July, for me and my husband (one way only), checking at least 4 times per week since December. When I found 2 available seats to Hong Kong back in March, I booked those (for 6 July), but so far I have been...

For anyone who may be interested how this went: bags indeed couldn't be checked through and we couldn't check in yet for our EK flights at the Qantas check-in desk nor online with Emirates. We took the free transfer bus to T1 and checked into the Aerotel, then went to the Emirates service desk...

Thank you for that tip, very good to know!

Thank you so much for your quick and clear reply. It's not what we'd hoped to hear, but at least now we know and can factor this into our planning. Thanks again.

I have a question for the more seasoned travellers. I wasn't sure where to post it (sorry if it belongs elsewhere.) We have a Qantas reward booking for flights from Coffs Harbour to Sydney on Qantas (in economy) around midday next month and continuing on to Amsterdam with Emirates (in business)...

Good to know. I realise I wrote activation but was thinking of porting to another carrier, sorry for the confusion. So porting my number to another carrier and then back again may be tricky in the little time available. Plus there's a chance they may still see me as an existing customer somehow...

Thanks for the suggestion. That might be worth looking into, but I doubt I'd be able to port to another carrier and back again within 6 days (that's when the offer ends). I thought I'd read somewhere activation can take 5 days.

I'm an existing Optus postpaid customer on a low $30/month plan and wanted to switch to the $99 plan for 3 months for the bonus points, but unfortunately the offer isn't available to existing customers who want to upgrade their postpaid plan. Boo.

@Daver6 Thanks for trying anyway. Appreciate it.

I have been in touch with Amex Travel but have had no luck. They claim they did not have access to the sale fares. Here is their first reply: "We get our airfares directly from the airline, and the vast bulk of the time, we have the same airfares available on our website as the airline does...

I just found this thread. I need to book some flights via Amex Travel to use my $450 Qantas Travel Credit (Ultimate card) and wanted to take advantage of the current Qantas domestic sale prices. However, they are not available on the Amex travel website. Instead of $119 per person for a one-way...