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Yes, if you sign up for an Avios-earning frequent flyer program and change the frequent flyer number associated with the booking to that program.

Call back during HBA hours and hope you get an Australian agent. If not, ask the Fiji agent to check with their team coach about how to do it — it is possible.

Flights to and from North America in J around September school holidays released without issue. The overseas agents continue to struggle with adding connecting domestic flights, mistakenly thinking there must be classic award availability to add them.

If you're usually flying J (you mention domestic, but what about international?), I wouldn't worry much about status. You get most of the perks of status with your J ticket. The only thing you're missing out on is oneworld first lounges, but it sounds like your priority is on board product...

One possible way to think about the subject is that nothing beats sign-up bonuses in terms of bang for your buck (points per dollar spent & the cost of each point), effort (no battling with cashiers at WW/Coles) & time (few people can generate, say, 100,000 points in a shorter space of time)...

You're literally repeating what I said on page 1 of this thread. What I'm saying is that you pointing to the fact that you earn 1.5pt/dollar and pay 1c/pt is proving the OP's point, not refuting it.

If you're earning 1.5pt per dollar and paying 1c/pt with your Amex, you need to spend $240,000 on your card to fly 2 people to Europe return in J. And that costs you $2,400. And then contend with Qatar award availability, which is good but not brilliant. And then add on taxes. And then hope...

Air Canada recently changed their back end in an attempt to break all award search tools.

US Amex only.

90K + $115 vs 160K + $473

The super hack is to have a US Amex and book it with Delta:

Back on topic, I would have thought the best option for Qantas and customers would be to have any seat that could be released to a WP simply be available to book once logged in as a WP. Why make customers go through the hassle of requesting release? If at a particular moment in time revenue...

https://seats.aero/qatar

The rise in surcharges has moved many award tickets from being 'close to free' to being 'a small to medium discount on paid tickets'.

Yes.

Programs are going in the opposite direction — more points for on the ground spending — and that is only going to accelerate. Anyone hoping for a return to the good ol' days will be sorely disappointed. The game evolves — either you move with it or get left behind. If all one does is the same...

In the event a tie break, the person with the earliest registration time wins. The person I know is currently in second place. The first place person must have also been on the inaugural flight, but registered just before them.

Yes, was a short term loophole emerging from the Alaska-Hawaiian merger. Alaska don't ordinarily partner with Amex (they partner with BOA in the US), but Hawaiian did, so it was a backdoor route to converting Amex to Alaska. The main question for me is how many US MR I want to park with Alaska.

Great thread topic. There's so many ways one can think about what's happened in the last decade. Points/miles are basically an arbitrage play — purchase something for cheap (points) and flip it for something more expensive (airline tickets). The arbitrage play has become flooded with new...

You'll have to call Chase if you haven't recorded it yourself or have the statement from when it was awarded.