tocal
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- Sep 6, 2012
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Hi all,
In the last few years my husband and I have been accumulating points, as his parents live in London and we'd like to go back to visit them. Currently I'm pregnant with our second child, and our daughter is almost two. At the moment we have about 78,000 points - not heaps, but enough to contribute to a flight.
Now, my understanding was that we could essentially get enough points for a return flight for one of us to London, possibly two as we won't be travelling for probably 18 months (we'd be flexible with dates and times within a few days), and pay cash for the rest. I logged onto the Qantas site as I wanted to roughly work out how much the fees and charges are, but now I'm not sure that I can book us together using the two methods. It seems if you use points+pay, you need WAY more points than for a Classic flight. Is this correct?
Can anyone advise me of the most economical way to arrange things when the time comes? I've never used Qantas points and have been saving them specifically for the purpose of flying to London. We'd most likely go off-peak anyway, and last time we left late in the evening from Melbourne, and left London around 9am (we flew with Etihad, but I've also flown with Emirates whom I know Qantas code shares with). I'm a bit bamboozled, and wasn't sure if arranging things through their flight centre would yield the cheapest result for us.
Thanks!
In the last few years my husband and I have been accumulating points, as his parents live in London and we'd like to go back to visit them. Currently I'm pregnant with our second child, and our daughter is almost two. At the moment we have about 78,000 points - not heaps, but enough to contribute to a flight.
Now, my understanding was that we could essentially get enough points for a return flight for one of us to London, possibly two as we won't be travelling for probably 18 months (we'd be flexible with dates and times within a few days), and pay cash for the rest. I logged onto the Qantas site as I wanted to roughly work out how much the fees and charges are, but now I'm not sure that I can book us together using the two methods. It seems if you use points+pay, you need WAY more points than for a Classic flight. Is this correct?
Can anyone advise me of the most economical way to arrange things when the time comes? I've never used Qantas points and have been saving them specifically for the purpose of flying to London. We'd most likely go off-peak anyway, and last time we left late in the evening from Melbourne, and left London around 9am (we flew with Etihad, but I've also flown with Emirates whom I know Qantas code shares with). I'm a bit bamboozled, and wasn't sure if arranging things through their flight centre would yield the cheapest result for us.
Thanks!