Qantas charging new rates ahead of August 5th?

[Viper6]

Hi everyone I just booked classic rewards flight for April 2026 from Brisbane to Manila on Qantas. I thought that by booking now I would get the current rate before the increased points requirement / increased costs kick in on August 5th.

I paid 68,400 pts and around $208 in taxes, is that correct? My understanding was that it should only be around 57,000 pts if booking before August 5th?

 

[MELso]

The actual distance between BNE and MNL is about 3600 miles, so it’s just on the cusp between two reward bands (57K and 68.4K). So they must price into the higher one.

Thread 'Article: How Does Qantas Calculate Distances?'

Jun 21, 2024

When Qantas recently announced its new BNE-MNL route, I looked up the distance on Great Circle Mapper and was pleasantly surprised to find it would be 3,596 miles - just low enough to put it into "Zone 4" on the Qantas Classic Flight Reward table.

Turns out it's actually in Zone 5. I wanted to understand why, which led me down a bit of an unexpected rabbit hole that involved learning the difference between a sphere and an ellipsoid.

You can read about it here:

How Does Qantas Calculate the Distance Between Airports?

There's more than one way to calculate the distance between two airports. It makes a difference to the number of Qantas points needed for Classic Flight Rewards on routes like Brisbane-Manila.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

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