Business award seat availability to HKG in July

[DamianQFF]

Hi...I need some advice...I have to be in HKG (from SYD) the week beginning 16 July...I want to get a QFF award seat in business (I'm 6'6" so Y class is just plain cruel) but there's no availability on QF or CX :evil:

Is it worth regularly checking availability? I heard somewhere that CX dump award seats on to the market up 2 weeks before a flight.

What should I do?

 

[Mr_Gimlet]

What frequent flyer status do you have with Qantas?

 

[DamianQFF]

QF Club/Silver

 

[Kiwi Flyer]

Check regularly. Be prepared to travel on non-peak days (Tues through Thurs). Be prepared to fly indirect routing (eg via BNE, MEL, AKL or SIN).

 

[NM]

Yes, things can change in the last few weeks before travel. but you also will need to find a way to get back home so need seats in both directions to become available.

Best to check now to see how the sale of business class is going and get a feel for what the airlines think they can sell between now and the. If there is little D class available, then they think they can sell the remaining seats for full fare and so little chance of them releasing seats into U class.

 

[garyjohn951]

July - August each year in HK and Guangzhou are very busy business wise. Planes are always full. I estimate only a 50% change of upgrades for Plat/Golds at that time, so I doubt if an award ticket will appear.
Sorry for the bad news but HK- China is big business during their summer months. Heeps of Trade Fairs also.

 

[HardieBoys]

Have you considered contacting QFF and putting in a request for a redemption seat. Sometimes seats materialise this way where nothing appears on the system. My experience has been that CX are far more generous with the upgrades than QF.