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Ours have all ticketed and we merely bought at the advertised (sale?) price, so I think we're golden.

I learnt something, anyway. It compares the higher zone cost of 108k with 90k + 16k and then gives you the latter. Then if you add on another valid leg, it moves you back to zone-based pricing:

And (a) (ii) seems to be relevant here too.

I think it was the last part of this: "Trip" means a series of one or more consecutive Flight Segments within an Itinerary: (a) that does not include: (i) a Stopover; or (ii) a Flight Segment whose arrival city is the same as the departure city of any other Flight Segment in that series (in...

Not an issue for itineraries consisting solely of EK and QF (and AA), though.

HKG-BKK-SYD-DXB works for 192k. Beyond that I'd say it's some sort of an issue with all the domestic legs.

If you're spending time in Japan, is there any advantage to booking in all on one itinerary?

I wasn't familiar with the BKK-SYD route, but now I see it's a distance-related thing. AND, it would appear the system is trying to help you. Instead of pushing you up to the next award category of 108k when it puts the trip together step by step, it recognises that 90k + 16k would be cheaper...

I'm not sure why, but I have found that connections within Australia can be treated a bit differently. It might be related to the search engine not throwing BKK-SYD-BNE up as a natural option, but needing it to be forced via multi-city. For example, this prices as 90k + 16k despite having a...

148k isn't a standard category, so I'm thinking something hasn't been treated as a stopover there, possibly because you're departing Sydney twice. One possibility is that it's effectively been priced as 108k for HKG-BKK-SYD and then 16k for SYD-BNE and 24k for BNE-SYD-MEL. So you're not getting...

No kidding. Would you rather we kept it to ourselves?

And those of you whining about costs might like to take up this opportunity to combine the "outrageous" charges with a two-thirds point discount: http://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/qantas-frequent-flyer-program/confused-about-prices-points-amount-74257.html

Couldn't agree more. (Well, I disagree slightly with the valuation if you would never pay the full price, but still...) I don't think there's any realistic prospect of Qantas suddenly taking an award that costs (say) 72,000 points + $500, and making it 72,000 points only. We will just have the...

Exactamundo.

It gets better:

(...shivers...)

I think only Mr. Elite is allowed to do that.

That said, I have also been disappointed with the standard on my past four or five (scumbag-peasant-points-using) domestic J flights.

Still not working "properly" for me as of now:

This post has saved me $528. Thank you so much.