2 Business class seat to London via points

[harrydart]

Hi to you all.

Just booked 2 J class seats to London using points (one way).

Leaving early January 2014. Long time in advance but a very good use of points value wise IMHO.

QF1 via Dubai ( not Singapore or Bangkok) on a 380. Charges are $462 each.

Points work very well if you are willing to plan way ahead.

Never been to Dudai, just a stopover but a different place, none the less.

Hope I don't get moved to Emirates from Sydney as they fly 777s. No flat bed!

Cheers

Harry

 

[Limewood]

How many points?.

One way... not coming back?.

 

[harrydart]

128,000 each seat.

Coming back via US but can't book award seats for March 2014 yet.

 

[ashleyn]

Hi to you all.

Just booked 2 J class seats to London using points (one way).

Leaving early January 2014. Long time in advance but a very good use of points value wise IMHO.

QF1 via Dubai ( not Singapore or Bangkok) on a 380. Charges are $462 each.

Points work very well if you are willing to plan way ahead.

Never been to Dudai, just a stopover but a different place, none the less.

Hope I don't get moved to Emirates from Sydney as they fly 777s. No flat bed!

Cheers

Harry

Good work

 

[power71]

Good work

How did you book with a stop over included? i would have thought Classic Award redemption would have been ticketed right through to London with no stopover?

 

[Sprucegoose]

128,000 each seat.

Coming back via US but can't book award seats for March 2014 yet.

Good but agree value is all relative. Prefer my points for upgrades and still pick up some points.

 

[michaelj]

My brother in law and I booked classic awards using points for J tickets LHR return to go to an Ashes test later this year.

Our strategy was; I booked 2 one way tickets outbound the day they became available. I found that CX flights actually showed up on QFF search engine a week or so before the 350 odd days that QF tickets are released. One of the options had an o/n stop in HKG so we took that. Then he used his points to do the same thing for the return flights as soon as they came up on the site.

I was worried that if we did not do this, the outbound flights would have all gone if we waited until 350 days before our return flight date to book them at the same time. It obviously helped that we are both WP, classify as "relations" and that we each had enough points in our accounts at the time.

 

[Edge]

Good but agree value is all relative. Prefer my points for upgrades and still pick up some points.

What's your strategy Spruce? Book economy then request an upgrade? Or are you talking about booking J then upgrading to F?

 

[casanovawa]

So you booked J SYD-LHR for 128,000 and assume your going to book LAX-SYD in J on the way back for 96,000 so there you have 224,000 QFF points used... Not sure what your plans are inbetween, but for just another 56,000 points you could have gone the option of using 280,000 QFF points to redeem a One World 35,000 mile J redemption that you could have used it as a RTW fare, with 5 stops, max of 16 legs all in J which would probably have got you a few internal Europe or US flights as well plus the trans-atlantic crossing all in J...

That sort of redemption is often better value than booking seperate legs....

 

[fersea]

According to various discussions on that topic casanovawa, they could still do that, except they will have to pay 3.5K points to CHANGE their booking to include extra flights rather than doing a NEW booking for the return leg (and potentially they are using points to get from the UK to US).

Therefore the horse hasn't bolted just yet!!

 

[casanovawa]

Yeah i thought they might be using this avenue to lock in the early flights now and then later in March when the US flights are released they could convert it to a OW award with only minimal point cost to amend the booking, that would be the way to go...

 

[harrydart]

Sigh, if only I had enough points to do the OW option.
I have enough points to go Sydney- London, business class.Then London - New York, San Fransico- Hawaii and then back to sydney all in economy.
But, these are all flights of 9 or so hours, not the 22 or 23 to London, hence the business class to London.