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Book yourself as another passenger rather than yourself. That is, make a booking for "another passenger" and put your own name in. The other alternate is ask your friendly travel agent if you have a good relationship with one.

FQTS functionality is defined, but not enabled for any of the oneworld carriers. It's only used by Star Alliance and even then it's only a small number of carriers that have it enabled eg. SQ and NH. What's wrong with shopping with multiple memberships on one PNR? There's quite a few people on...

This is incorrect. The system goes by your live boarding group number, which is based on your cabin and status in the system at the time of boarding. For example you have a paper BP printed that says group 1, you then get your FF number swapped for a no status FF number, and are therefore...

They are still loading the pricing parameters, but here's what you can expect for flights from 6th Feb: B738: Y+ rows are rows 4-9. Exit rows are rows 12-13. Preferred rows are rows 10-11, 14-15. Bronze can see rows 7-9, 11-13, and 15 onwards. Can pay for Y+ rows 7-9, exit rows 12-13 and...

A DONE4 can potentially also be less restrictive then a QF oneworld award. They trade blows - there's itineraries that can be done on a DONE4 but not on a QF oneworld award and vice versa. For example you can stopover in the same port up to 5 times on a DONE4 which you can't do on a QF oneworld...

They currently lose out on closer to travel international J sales because of a lack of domestic J capacity in a B738 so it'll depend on their priorities. It's not just purely domestic service that needs to be considered.

24h or less is a transit. 24h1m or more is a stopover.

Once ETIAS starts, that'll effectively come to an end.

The CX website often drops the leading zeroes in a FF number so if you have a number that begins with a 0, you need to get CX to delete and re-add the number with the correct number including the leading zeroes. It's not just QFF that's affected, BA has numbers beginning with zero as well.

These are almost always point of commencement issues. JL is a known heavy user of POC. When you search on the QF website for say SIN-HND, it uses POC SIN as that would be the booking origin. However, if your PNR starts in SYD, then your PNR's POC is SYD. If JL hasn't made the inventory...

The system won't let you ticket it. I don't know first hand as I personally don't talk to any of the offshore centres other than AKL, but I suspect a lot of the offshore contact centre staff (except AKL) don't know how to do a ticket exchange correctly and that's where they stumble. In...

The GDSes have RTW and circle trip modes which applies the normal IATA rules for commercial fares. When you do something that breaks those rules, eg. funky routings on redemptions that involve going back and forth between areas, it refuses to price because it fails the IATA rules. It doesn't...

I recently helped ticket the following: SYD QF YVR SEA AA X/ORD AA BUF JFK BA X/LHR BA CDG MAD CX HKG CAN CX X/HKG CX JNB JNB QF SYD 34503 miles by GCMap This routing breaks general IATA backtracking rules so the GDS refuses to price it and it had to be ticketed manually.

J/W/Y awards have a fixed co-pay that is lower than the true taxes/fines most of the time. F doesn't - you pay full taxes/fines.

I do BA16/15 twice a year on average. The average practical amount of time that you have is 45 mins - 1 hour depending on how quickly you are able to disembark. The below by @anat0l mirrors my experience of what you can feasibly fit in the transit in both directions.

JL's B788/789s have 2-4-2 configs in Y. They're the only carrier to do so.

The tool is actually quite useless. There's a lot you can do with the oneworld fares that can only be done by a TA. Here is the most current fare sheet: https://assets.ctfassets.net/m9ph4qvas97u/5SQCRuQjmJaqzJAxtvgaNF/e12e81253010b67a911c4512b88c97ef/oneworld_Explorer_1July2025.pdf

QF inhibits overnight through-check at SIN and HKG.

They are, but you're also VA platinum which gets free seating.

Yes. They didn't used to, but they do now.