Classic award booking of a lifetime!

[gogo419]

Managed to save up 230,000 QFF points. (Plus I have borrowed an extra 60,000 points from my father) and booked the following routing.

LAX-DXB EK first class.
DXB-SIN (via CMB) EK first class
SIN-SYD BA first class
SYD-MEL JQ35

I have the second half of a Y classic award on QF that I have decided to throw away LAX-SYD) and instead burn all my points on one big trip home. I have a 10 hour layover in Dubai and 24 hours in Singapore and a day and half in Sydney. It was the only routing available for The end of January and I'm more than happy to take the long way home.

taxes were $360 plus phone booking fee. All in all I am one happy camper now that it has all been ticketed.

Just felt like I had to share what I spent my points on today..

 

[markis10]

Why do I get the feeling the flights go down in quality/experience with each leg??

 

[yohy?!]

be sure to quaff enough champagne in the F lounge on the JQ35 leg to numb the pain

enjoy all the EK F luxury

 

[zainman]

So the total cost of the booking was 290,000 points?

Managed to save up 230,000 QFF points. (Plus I have borrowed an extra 60,000 points from my father) and booked the following routing.

LAX-DXB EK first class.
DXB-SIN (via CMB) EK first class
SIN-SYD BA first class
SYD-MEL JQ35

I have the second half of a Y classic award on QF that I have decided to throw away LAX-SYD) and instead burn all my points on one big trip home. I have a 10 hour layover in Dubai and 24 hours in Singapore and a day and half in Sydney. It was the only routing available for The end of January and I'm more than happy to take the long way home.

taxes were $360 plus phone booking fee. All in all I am one happy camper now that it has all been ticketed.

Just felt like I had to share what I spent my points on today..

 

[gogo419]

Why do I get the feeling the flights go down in quality/experience with each leg??

Have to ease my way into the JQ flight...

 

[gogo419]

So the total cost of the booking was 290,000 points?

Yep......... (Dot points are there to make this post long enough)

 

[JohnK]

So essentially a one-way LAX-MEL trip the long way for 290,000 QFF points including a leg on Jetstar.

I guess if that is what you want to do that is fine. Personally I would rather spend those sort of points on a business Oneworld award or 2 economy Oneworld awards.

 

[zainman]

and a one way LAX-MEL on QF J would be 96,000 points wouldn't it?

 

[ozbeachbabe]

I have the second half of a Y classic award on QF that I have decided to throw away LAX-SYD) and instead burn all my points on one big trip home. I have a 10 hour layover in Dubai and 24 hours in Singapore and a day and half in Sydney. It was the only routing available for The end of January and I'm more than happy to take the long way home.

taxes were $360 plus phone booking fee. All in all I am one happy camper now that it has all been ticketed.

Just felt like I had to share what I spent my points on today..

Why do you have to throw away the original return sector LAX/SYD? Have you already used the forward sector of the ticket? Could you call up QF & see if they can cancel the original ticket & re-issue it to a one way SYD/LAX? At least go through the fare conditions with them as there may be other alternatives to wasting a LAX/SYD ticket.

 

[gogo419]

Why do you have to throw away the original return sector LAX/SYD? Have you already used the forward sector of the ticket? Could you call up QF & see if they can cancel the original ticket & re-issue it to a one way SYD/LAX? At least go through the fare conditions with them as there may be other alternatives to wasting a LAX/SYD ticket.

Yes i haven't cancelled it yet. But the first half of the booking has been flown.. Will call up and see if there is any other alternative to keep it..