Big Devaluation for Qantas Rewards on Emirates First Class from February 18.

[am0985]

Whilst I don't like the idea, this is not new to us. SQ already has limited a lot of their Saver Awards (J/F) to PPS members only. CX limits a lot of their awards to their Diamond members only. Of course QF does that already for their awards (Platinum or above).

I wouldn't miss EK F award though, their cash components of the award is already so expensive $$$.

SQ are weird. I booked a MEL - SIN - DPS flight in December for 45k Aeroplan points that wasn't available at Saver level on KF, only Advantage at > 100k points.

Can you give an example please?

I can see return on EK F in November from CGK...$7200 to MXP, $7600 to FRA, $7700 to BRU (including gamechanger), $8000 to CDG and $8100 to LHR.

Points flight on Garuda or Qantas J up to CGK and it costs similar to a J return on a good airline from Australia.

 

[lovestotravel]

It'll be interesting to see if F reward seat availability increases to QFF once the status restriction comes into play. There's been a lot less EK F seats available through QFF lately, even on short flights from Dubai where they're usually quite plentiful. Perhaps, with the same restrictions as Skywards, we might hopefully see things return to what was 'normal' before. That's wishful thinking, of course.

There are no J seats either..

Whilst I don't like the idea, this is not new to us. SQ already has limited a lot of their Saver Awards (J/F) to PPS members only. CX limits a lot of their awards to their Diamond members only. Of course QF does that already for their awards (Platinum or above).

I wouldn't miss EK F award though, their cash components of the award is already so expensive $$$.

Nope I managed 3 x Savers a few days before xmas - MEL-SIN-LHR and I'm only Silver with KF