Article: Reward Seat Release Patterns Have Changed Fundamentally

[renatts]

What I consider strange about the whole thing is QF appear to be releasing J awards to partners, but not their own members. Pretty much the opposite of other FF Programs.

I was fiddling with some routing the other day and using AA to search for flights via Japan to avoid JQ showing up. SYD - HND and BNE - NRT QF Flights were both available in both directions, 2 in J, for 2 or 3 days a week through of June/July via AA. Searched via QF, not a single one of those days even showed 1 J seat. After that I checked SYD - SIN, BNE - SIN, MEL - NRT and there was sporadic availability on AA that wasn’t showing on QF. Flights also appeared on BA searches.

Could be phantom availability on AA/BA, I didn’t go through the booking process, but I wouldn’t put it past QF to restrict their own Australian FF Members while providing access to overseas partners.

 

[levelnine]

Flights were both available in both directions, 2 in J, for 2 or 3 days a week through of June/July via AA. Searched via QF, not a single one of those days even showed 1 J seat.

It's phantom. Click through to booking and you get an error message.

 

[LondonAussie]

Not to mention that unless you are a resident of the country you're travelling to, you'll need proof of a return flight ticket.

Depends where you're going. I have regularly flown to European countries on one-way tickets and no one bats an eyelid. I also fly back to the UK on my Australian passport and have only once been asked if I was a resident of the UK or if I had onward travel from there - that was flying back from the US.

 

[burmans]

Depends where you're going. I have regularly flown to European countries on one-way tickets and no one bats an eyelid. I also fly back to the UK on my Australian passport and have only once been asked if I was a resident of the UK or if I had onward travel from there - that was flying back from the US.

Maybe it’s the demographic that’s means this question gets asked?

 

[eminere]

Depends where you're going. I have regularly flown to European countries on one-way tickets and no one bats an eyelid. I also fly back to the UK on my Australian passport and have only once been asked if I was a resident of the UK or if I had onward travel from there - that was flying back from the US.

Yes, but why risk it at all?