Article: Premium Economy Flights You Can Book with Qantas Points

[AFF Editor]

Premium Economy Flights You Can Book with Qantas Points is an article written by the AFF editorial team:

Premium Economy Flights You Can Book with Qantas Points

You can travel in comfort by using your Qantas Points to book Premium Economy Classic Reward seats, but only on selected partner airlines. Qantas have still not added Premium Economy redemptions on Air France, KLM, Finnair and Iberia, as of January 2026.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

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[George Szabo]

Very interesting and helpful article.
Is there a similar one about which partner airlines allow the use of QFF points to book business class seats?

 

[WilsonM]

Very interesting and helpful article.
Is there a similar one about which partner airlines allow the use of QFF points to book business class seats?

You can book the vast majority of Qantas partner Business Class using points - the only ones I can think of where you can't (and that offer Business Class) are WestJet, Bangkok Airways and AirNZ (who don't offer J intra-NZ, which are the only routes bookable with QF points). Qatar limits access until 3 days prior to departure for QFF, so it makes it extremely difficult.

 

[Mwenenzi]

From the article

To book a Premium Economy reward seat on AA72 from Sydney to Los Angeles, you’ll need 81,300 Qantas points + ~$270 in taxes, one way.

Is that real taxes or taxes and carrier surcharge(~profit)? Should be accurate.
The airlines would like the punters to think they are paying real govt & regulatory actual taxes, even when they are not.
Real taxes on my AU-NZ flights are ~$140. Includes an AU$60 [now $70} "PASSENGER MOVEMENT CHARGE" on QF or "Departure Tax" on JQ

 

[WilsonM]

From the article

Is that real taxes or taxes and carrier surcharge(~profit)? Should be accurate.
The airlines would like the punters to think they are paying real govt & regulatory actual taxes, even when they are not.
Real taxes on my AU-NZ flights are ~$140. Includes an AU$60 [now $70} "PASSENGER MOVEMENT CHARGE" on QF or "Departure Tax" on JQ

Good catch, thank you - there's a $109.30 carrier charge. Have fixed in the article to be taxes and carrier charges

 

[John Anderson]

Premium Economy Flights You Can Book with Qantas Points is an article written by the AFF editorial team:

Premium Economy Flights You Can Book with Qantas Points

You can travel in comfort by using your Qantas Points to book Premium Economy Classic Reward seats, but only on selected partner airlines. Qantas have still not added Premium Economy redemptions on Air France, KLM, Finnair and Iberia, as of January 2026.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

You can leave a comment or discuss this topic below.

My experience has been that this year in particular using the Qantas membership website to obtaining a Japan Airlines F/F ticket to Japan return has been virtually non-existent in that the website does not show any available Japan Airlines flights but just sends you to QF / Jet Star flights.
It is either Japan Airlines not releasing F/F seats to Qantas members or just normal Qantas practice of preventing you using other One World Partner members flights.
I suspect it is the latter.
Japan as a ski destination has boomed in popularity with Australian ski enthusiasts post covid.
Qantas needs to be more open in their dealings with F/F awards with One World Partner Airlines.

 

[encryptededdy]

I suspect it is the latter.

Why would it be in Qantas's interest to do that? Japan Airlines is not releasing that many seats to Qantas members (or any non-JMB members at all I suspect).

You can still get JAL seats reliably in all classes of travel if you book at the end of the calendar though, for instance;