award 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...

Hi, Recently made Platinum and need to travel to Canberra tomorrow - looking to burn some of my points but almost no J award seats available even thru Sydney. Has anyone had experience ringing QFF and asking them to free up a seat in that class. Is there a particular section that I should ask for ?

Sorry if this has recently been asked but when i searched online i got no clarity from the virgin website, and the results in this forum were from 2013 or earlier. I've booked a business class seat via reward points. Do I earn any status points on this booking?

Looking at the chart today for an upcoming trip look like there are now 2 different chart until 15 April and from 16 April . Award Tickets on Star Alliance airlines

Hi All Just wanting to know the rough idea of taxes return from Perth to Singapore using points? I did a dummy booking and got this. Never booked with points before so not sure which parts would be applicable if I were using points. Thanks

So I've just managed to get myself and Mrs BD onto 2 x 280000 J awards via the QF Multi city tool. I can select seats for all the BA flights but I have QR, AY, CX and IB legs that I can't do it with via QF. Can I select if I go to the individual airline websites using QF's PNR? If not then...

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Hi all, Couple of quick questions if I may. - Can you use QF classic flight rewards to purchase FJ domestic flights? - If so, has anyone booked Nadi to Taveuni return and can advise on points and taxes? Cheers Wanderlust_tim

I'm looking at booking a reward booking with virgin. Unfortunately there's no more availability showing from Singapore to aus, but there's availability if going Kul-SIN-aus. As I don't need that first segment is it possible to cancel it after booking? Or is it possible to get iSIn-aus when...

Both Emirates and Qatar Airways fly from Zagreb to Dubai and Doha respectively which in turn creates a potential connecting route to Melbourne. Both airlines offer QF award seats while Emirates also offers points plus pay. However when attempting to search for flights on the Qantas website from...

Booked 2x 1st one way SYD/PVG with QFF points on new MU A350 for August, the Qantas booking engine says 1st but in fact the seats are what MU call "Premium" Business. so as the tickets were sold as 1st does this mean entry to Qantas 1st lounge?.

Hi does anyone know how to check Air China domestic award/upgrade availability (i.e PEK-SHA) without calling up their call centre? When I search on Expert Flyer or United it only shows availability routing through international ports i.e HKG, TPE. You can specify flights on the "Air China...

First time poster - Trying to use QFF points to book award seats on AA but getting some weird results. Trying to get from Florida (any of TPA, MIA, FLL, MCO) to DFW. When I search for TPA to DFW, it returns a connection flight, i.e. TPA - MIA - DFW. I thought 'Great, there must be a MIA-DFW...

Booked 2 x 1st (Premium Business) SYD/PVG one way on new MU A350 for Aug. 2019, a month later could not book middle seats, spent best part of 30 mins on QF chat to then be given a MU booking No., it didn't work. I spent another 30 mins. getting through to MU and told the MU booking No. doesn't...

Hi Any one in AUS used cashrewards.com.au or ebates.com for marriott bookings ? Do you still get reward points etc from marriott for the stay or does it get classed as external site etc so no points ? Thanks B

Hi, I was looking to book a QFF Classic Reward out of Ho Chi Minh (SGN) and get this message; We need the following information to continue. Press tab to navigate to the formThese cities are not available on the Classic Flight Rewards. Unselect Use points - Classic Flight Rewards only to...

Are there some websites which can show award seat availability on aircraft seating plans?

Hi When trying to redeem international classic awards, you enter your destinations, key in your membership details and you get to the page showing the calendar with economy availability dates. I then select "Business" so that it shows me the business availability as well as the economy (quite...

Hi I saw the webcast last night and tried Expert Flyer for the first time today searching for VA award flight availability. The results page just shows yes or no for availability but not the number of seats. Is this a peculiarity of VA searches or have I missed something? Matt's demo last night...

As both Matt and Pointhacks suggest Thai could be a good destination for MR points that I am looking for a home for with the looming devaluation. Having trouble interpreting the Thai chart though. We have friends whose son is getting married just oustdie Chang Mai in January and 98K for return...