Hi. This is my first post, and I do it out of desperation!
I have well over 2,000,000 QFF points that I have been trying for years to use, but there are never any seats available for when I want to travel. I know what the issue is: I can only travel during peak periods, and because I fly only Business or Premium Economy with paid tickets, I refuse to go Economy on an award ticket. Occasionally I can find a ticket on CX via HK to Europe, but rarely. So points keep accumulating, and I find myself switching to Virgin and Virgin partners as I find it much easier to get award seats on their flights, so rather accumulate points with them.
I have tried getting on line literally 1 minute past midnight 353 days before flights supposedly become available for booking, yet even then there are ZERO seats available to book in business class! Then I ring the QFF centre the next day during business hours and after an eternity on hold I finally get through to be told again there are no seats. This happens year after year, and frankly it all sucks, so I am one disgusted QFF member!
I realise I can get a voucher from a travel agent, but when you compare how many more points are required to do the same trip by booking directly it seems extortionary and hardly worth while. So before I cave in and get a travel voucher, I thought I'd see if anyone more knowledgeable in navigating the QFF programme has any suggestions on how to use these points during peak travel times, i.e. school holidays, etc where dates cannot be too flexible?
Any insight would be much appreciated!
I have well over 2,000,000 QFF points that I have been trying for years to use, but there are never any seats available for when I want to travel. I know what the issue is: I can only travel during peak periods, and because I fly only Business or Premium Economy with paid tickets, I refuse to go Economy on an award ticket. Occasionally I can find a ticket on CX via HK to Europe, but rarely. So points keep accumulating, and I find myself switching to Virgin and Virgin partners as I find it much easier to get award seats on their flights, so rather accumulate points with them.
I have tried getting on line literally 1 minute past midnight 353 days before flights supposedly become available for booking, yet even then there are ZERO seats available to book in business class! Then I ring the QFF centre the next day during business hours and after an eternity on hold I finally get through to be told again there are no seats. This happens year after year, and frankly it all sucks, so I am one disgusted QFF member!
I realise I can get a voucher from a travel agent, but when you compare how many more points are required to do the same trip by booking directly it seems extortionary and hardly worth while. So before I cave in and get a travel voucher, I thought I'd see if anyone more knowledgeable in navigating the QFF programme has any suggestions on how to use these points during peak travel times, i.e. school holidays, etc where dates cannot be too flexible?
Any insight would be much appreciated!