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Correct.

It's better to request from the personal account and then reimburse from the business account. If your flight gets cancelled and you need a refund of the points upgrade, it is a major pain in the rear to refund a points upgrade that was taken from a business account whereas it's very easy if it...

For as long as IATA resolution 302 has been in effect it's been this way.

What changes the fuel fines is the point of commencement and also where the ultimate ticketed destination is. There are two sets of fines filed usually... one set is for where there is a US/Canada stopover where the US/Canada happens to also be the ultimate ticketed destination and another set...

The better approach is to book a W fare or even a cheap J fare to somewhere nearby during DSC and then exchange it to a long haul J sale and pay the difference in cash so the difference that you pay in cash is minimal. Your goal being to find something to book as a CR+ that is say < 1k AUD lower...

Your ticket will be as if you paid for the commercial fare and any changes will be based on the prevailing commercial fare at the time that you change it. That is, if the underlying commercial base fare was 500 AUD for whatever classic plus booking that you do and you go to change the booking...

Your TA needs some lessons in reading then... https://www.qantas.com/agencyconnect/au/en/agency-news/agency-news-february-25/commercial-policy-for-customer-impacted-by-the-suspension-of-qantas-delhi-services.html It's the second dot point of the rebook section.

Yes it is.

The taxes can change almost daily due to exchange rate movement and other factors. Ask them to process this as a voluntary change, with the change fee waived due to the cabin downgrade. This way you will get your points back and your taxes back now rather than after travel.

If it's one ticket, and AA is late, then AA would rebook you in J for the transpacific. However, if everything is full, then you may need to downgrade in order to get home in a reasonable time.

I can confirm it is possible... but for obvious reasons I'm not going to divulge where / how.

You cannot link QF and another carrier - the system won't even let you.

That's correct. The half award half commercial combinations are implemented with quite a hacky method which is why they are website only. The contact centre systems would require some substantial changes to make it possible. Linking two PNRs where the flights are A->B and B->C does absolutely...

10kg baggage = lite fare 20kg baggage = basic fare Beware that some dodgy agents sell you a student fare where the conditions are they can ask for student ID at check in. It's the student fares that give additional baggage and a number of the Asian carriers do it.

If booked as SYD-JFK, no, you cannot upgrade just AKL-JFK. Generally I see straight through upgrades prioritised over sector ones.

It's a new distribution channel that will basically eventually replace the traditional GDS. It has a long way to go before it gets to that point though.

Amex aren't NDC-enabled for QF which is why there's a number of domestic (and tasman) fares where Amex is more expensive than the QF website. In fact none of the major corporate travel agents here in AU are enabled for NDC for QF. The main fare with a huge fare difference is the I class...

There's a huge difference between trip apps built from the ground up, completely with modern technology, vs systems that use archaic frameworks setup by IATA that were initially built in the late 90s. Granting explicit access for carrier A to access carrier B's reservations has a whole host of...

In practice AS still through checks if it's all on the same PNR. I can see why AS stopped doing it. It was a little known benefit before they joined oneworld so it wasn't done that often, whereas now they're likely getting such requests frequently. For AS, for them to through-check to a...

I use both Amadeus and Sabre. On Sabre the command is 3DOCS, 3DOCA and 3DOCO for all carriers except AA. For AA it's 4DOCS, 4DOCA and 4DOCO. See here for examples: https://www.qantas.com/agencyconnect/au/en/policies/book/agent-support/gds-formats/sabre-gds-formats.html