award availability

So as predicted, RewardPay has lowered their rates, but unless you are spending large $$ in single payments, I don't think it will be enough for me to keep using the service. Or am I doing my sums incorrectly? *Single payment amount Rate %(+GST) **After Tax Rate 0 to < 20k 2.15% 1.51%...

This from OMaaT: American’s Awful New Award Search Tool Hints At AAdvantage Changes

Hello experts! I've got 680k amex ascent points and hoping to book a flight before the devaluation. I also have 500k velocity and gold status. And 260k qantas points. We have an upcoming flight to London from Perth in January (around Jan 4th to Jan 17/18th). We have myself, my wife and 3 year...

Just a heads up: With the recent devaluation coming up, I was looking to book the flight back from Europe via IST. Turns out, today is the day (April 6th) they are doing the big migration to the new airport, so attempting to search for a redemption flight via IST will instead only show up with...

So I booked Freedom fare between Perth and Sydney on Tuesday and called customer service to use my complimentary upgrade to business for WP and was told that there are no reward seats available. However reward search "Points+Pay" shows business class seat available. Work this out....

United is planning to introduce dynamic award pricing and ditch award charts from 15 November. I guess this is the same as what Delta SkyMiles has been doing for a few years. I must say, I'm really not a fan of dynamic award pricing at all. I like to know how much an award is going to cost as I...

Just a friendly reminder that From 15 April 2019, you will no longer be able to enrol your credit card for Velocity Auto-Redemption. If your credit card is currently enrolled, or enrolled before 15 April 2019, Velocity Auto-Redemption will operate as usual until further notice. This change does...

Anybody else having trouble with China Eastern reward bookings? Even though I have a Qantas e-ticket itinerary and receipt, China Eastern has no record of my booking. When I visited their Melbourne office I was told that Qantas had to contact them with the booking information. When I contacted...

Just had an odd one. Last night, I was trying to request an upgrade for an upcoming domestic flight, but of course the App couldn't handle that, telling me 'No PNR in the URL'. :rolleyes: Woke up this morning to an e-mail, sent about an hour later for me to call the FF service centre about an...

The Japan Airlines website is sometimes used when searching for Oneworld award availability because it tends not to show the "phantom" award availability that is sometimes displayed on the Qantas (and other) websites. This can sometimes be an issue for CX availability, among other airlines. The...

Hi, I have a question for the more experienced members. I'm looking at seat availability to Europe using Qantas Classic Rewards for ~17th August 2019 and notice that for all AU cities, no seats are available after 13th August. It's not school holidays so I'm curious as to why this is the case...

Hi all, any tips on how I can get an e-Rewards invite? I've been trying for months, signing up to mailing lists people suggest, etc. but still no luck. Or if anybody has a working link to sign up? Cheers

Hi, I am looking at booking an economy reward through QF and flying on MU. I am currently a Skyteam Elite Plus and was wondering if I would be able to use that to get into lounges?

Not sure if its just me. Used to be able to book QFF award tickets direct to KL on MH but now it seems that the only options available involves indirect flights (tried various dates over the year). Tried booking SYD - KUL but only got: SYD-MEL (QF) then MEL - KUL (MH) Funny thing is when I...

Telstra has announced today a new rewards program , Telstra Plus Telstra Plus™ - our new rewards program * 3 Membership Tiers - Member , Silver & Gold * 10 Points earned for every $1 of eligible spend FAQ"s Telstra Plus™ - FAQs

Hi Everyone Planning to go back to the UK in June or July so thought I'd check out what's on offer with classic rewards as well as points plus pay. Normally, I never look at the points plus pay as classic rewards work out better value in points, even with the high taxes contained within a...

PER-MEL J - do VA release more seats up close to dep date? As in couple days pre dep?

D-day is fast approaching, and now that April is on us I can clear out my MR balance to Krisflyer, as whether I do know or on d-day, they will expire on April 30 2022. My card is a grandfathered card (was Gold now Platinum Credit Card), with fee free for life, but annual fee for MR membership...

I'm looking for an award J seat on CX139 (the daytime HKG-SYD flight) early in the new year. Freshly equipped with both Award Nexus and Expert Flyer, as well as the CX website, I'm gobsmacked to see that the only seats currently booked on the whole plane are some award PE seats that I saw on...

What are the fare buckets QF uses for awards/upgrades? Do they show up on expert flyer?