Award Availaibilty - July 2019 *HKG SIN BKK*

[raroson]

I can't see any availability from 1 July 2019 to 31 July 2019 for Qantas reward seats for any direct flights from Singapore or Hong Kong to Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne. Seats are available until 30 June 2019 and then more seats are available from 1 August 2019.

Does anyone have any insight into why Qantas would be doing this? I'm particularly interested in J class HKG-BNE in July 2019.

 

[defurax]

The first 2-3 weeks of July out of HKG is almost a blackout period for reward seats. If you have ExpertFlyer it can be a good idea to set up award searches. If you're QF WP or above you can also call QF to request a seat, but no guarantee there...

 

[offshore171]

School holidays.

 

[Kceips]

I was able to get 2 reward J tickets QF SYD-HKG for next July - I booked this at the end of July - I think the rewards get taken shortly after the flights appear during this busy school holiday time.

 

[jetpack]

I am looking for the same and could not find a single J seat from HKG BKK SIN CGK DPS KIX NRT MNL to the east coast in the first half of July.

 

[raroson]

I was able to get 2 reward J tickets QF SYD-HKG for next July - I booked this at the end of July - I think the rewards get taken shortly after the flights appear during this busy school holiday time.

Australia to Asia is fine. The return leg has no availability 1-31 July 2019. June and August is fine.

 

[Kceips]

If you can get across to Tokyo there is some reward availability back to Aus from Tokyo in July 19.

 

[Mattg]

I'm 99% sure Qantas is intentionally not making these seats available for award redemption.

 

[ellen10]

I have been looking for a couple of months in preparation for my bookings in a few weeks and have also noted that the lack of J options.
Its worrying.