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From the Australian On line The fierce rivalry between Qantas and Virgin Australia will take on a new flight path on Tuesday as the airlines stage simultaneous media events in Sydney. While Qantas is using the lure of a big frequent flyer announcement to make the news, metres away at Sydney...

The ridiculous requirement to wear masks in airports is another example of the hypocracy that still lingers from the Covid 19 outbreak. I can understand the requirement on a flight, but an airport is no different to a supermarket or bar …… so to the people who love making rules ….. for heavens...

ANZ have released a new offering for their ANZ QFF Black card with improved bonus point and cash back to the previous version. There is a good overview posted on Point Hacks.

Following the announcement of the major QFF program overhaul in mid June, I am yet to see any sign of the commitment to provide a 30 percent in increase of reward seats in premium cabins. We are returning from a holiday in Europe during late September and could only get J class reward seats as...

We have an award booking from Singapore to Melbourne in economy in September which we booked several months ago guarantee a seats on a flight back to Australia ..... in the hope that we could eventually find some J class award seats to either Melb or Syd. Although I have checked availability...

We are travelling to New Zealand in late January and wanting to make an award booking from Melbourne to Auckland to Queenstown and back to Melbourne. Doing a mutil-city search and MEL to AKL is fine .... but when it get to AKL - ZQN and ZQN - Mel the following error message appears. Qantas.com...

Is there are specific day/time that Qantas (or One World airlines) release available award seats? I have been following a couple of routes (Sin to Mel & Syd to HKG) that we are hoping to get J class award seats for a few months now and the avails never appear to change. There always appears to...

We have been watching for J class award bookings from Singapore to Australia in September for a couple of months and there never appears to be any availability on the days we are trying get. Interestingly, there always seems to be avails on the previous week and earlier but they never seem to...

I read in Australian Business Traveller newsletter today that Singapore Airlines are increasing the amount of points for J award bookings. I wonder how soon the same will happen with the Qantas FF program? Here is the story below; Singapore Airlines is increasing the number of KrisFlyer miles...

I have been watching redemption availabilities from Spain to Australia over the past few months with the intention of booking business class seats for my wife and I in September 2019. Disturbingly, I have noticed a massive decline in the redemption opportunities in the past 8 weeks …… and I am...

Point Hacks recently published a guide which highlighted the advantage of using American Airlines AAdvantage website to perform award searches on Qatar Airways ... which really show on Qantas ff searches. How to search for frequent flyer award space - Point Hacks So, I did a search and found...

We are looking for award J Class seats from Barcelona/Madrid to Syd/Mel via Dubai in late September 2019. I have been monitoring the avails over the past couple of months on these flights and there appeared to be plenty of seat options, primarily on EK. However in the past few weeks I have...

I need to find a new card with a balance transfer promotion to enable me to transfer an outstanding $7000 account that I cannot get reimbursed for until later in the year. I currently have the outstanding on a Macquarie Card but the zero interest promotion is about to expire and rather than...

We are travelling to Europe (via Hong Kong) next year and three of our Cathay Pacific flights are noted as 77W. As we have booked business class, am wondering what seating configuration the aircraft will be because Seat Guru notes there is two versions of the 777ER, a three class 77G and a four...

We are going overseas next year and are allowed up to 30kgs baggage for our international flight. However are permitted just 23kgs for our connecting domestic flight. I have searched the Virgin website to no avail to ascertain how much it will cost to pre-purchase the additional kgs. Can...

With Jetstar putting a $2500 cap on 1 for 1 points, I have found that Qudos Bank (formerly Qantas Credit Union) has a platinum visa card which still Qantas point for every $1 spent. Cannot see any limitations on this card although others may know more. The benefits are below; Earning 1 Qantas...

We have successfully booked J Class flights for our overseas holiday next year from Melb - Hong Kong - Madrid, which we are delighted about. When making the booking though, it didnt allow me to select seats ... simply our preference of window or aisle. Is there a way that we can actually...

Is there anyway to work what the actual seating configuration of flight are before booking. For example, Cathay Pacific flights to Hong Kong are identified as 333 (Airbus 330) but looking at the CTX fleet, they have three different layouts - 333/33K, 333/33E or 333/33P. Can anyone cast any...

We are about to use QFF points to book business class seats on Cathay Pacific to Spain via HK. With the herringbone layout of J class, I am interested which seats others select when travelling as a couple? Do you select the two middle seats or two window seats in the same row? The middle seats...

I want to use QFF points on Cathay Pacific later this year to travel to Europe. Is it possible to see reward seat availability on the Cathay Pacific website ... or only on the Qantas site?