Day One of the new QF FF program and where are the seats?

[fiscal]

Hi All,

Today is the first day of the newly revamped and enhanced QF FF program. We were promised 5 million new seats of which 30% were supposed to be premium cabin, but when is QF going to add them to the booking site? I just checked for business class for PER-LHR and there are no extras that I can see, and that was easy as we rarely get any business seats anyway.

Has anyone also been looking today? and found any?

Fiscal

 

[mannej]

Being discussed here

 

[henrus]

We were promised 5 million new seats of which 30% were supposed to be premium cabin

It seems the marketing tricks have worked...

Qantas (on QF operated flights) releases 5 million seats annually and an additional 3-5 million on partner flights.

These changes bring an additional 1 million seats spread over Qantas and Partner airlines (Air France, KLM, Air New Zealand, Bangkok Airways and China Airlines). My guess is most of those 1 million seats will be on partner airlines especially the Air New Zealand domestic network.

Exactly how many seats of that 1 million total will be on Qantas was never announced however what was announced was up to 30% more seats in premium cabins will be released over the next 12 months. Given on some routes like Perth to London they may release very few seats (let's just say 50 seats in Business per year) then you should only expect at most an additional 15 but it's also important to remember that it's "up to 30%".

 

[p--and--t]

Nobody promised 5M new seats.
5M seats overall
1M seat increase across all partner airlines