Does QF release any international premium cabins to partners anymore?

[aus_flyer]

Qantas releases very few international premium cabin seats to its own frequent flyers and for a long time has released zero* seats to partners.

First and Business availability has been zilch for partners. Searches on Expert Flyer always show zero for P, U and Z.

Will this ever change? Sucks to be a Oneworld FF hoping for a seat on QF!

*As far as I can see

 

[Happy Dude]

Qantas releases very few international premium cabin seats to its own frequent flyers and for a long time has released zero* seats to partners.

First and Business availability has been zilch for partners. Searches on Expert Flyer always show zero for P, U and Z.

Will this ever change? Sucks to be a Oneworld FF hoping for a seat on QF!

*As far as I can see

Not a lot of fun trying to get OW partner awards with QF points either. Probably just tit-for-tat and you the sandwich meat.

 

[odysseus]

I suspect they do. But presume it's the same back of the queue as their Bronze FF. And we know how bad that is...

edit: And indeed that seems correct. Found a Business flight Syd-MNL on QF 19 Oct. Checked AA and it's also available there.

But yeah, Bronze QF have virtually no hope of finding a US or EU flight with QF, so expect that's the same with partners.

 

[am0985]

Recently QF released a whole bunch of J seats to DFW over winter 2023. Some are still available eg QF21 MEL - DFW on 21/7/23.

They can also be booked on Asia Miles. AFAIK if it's bookable by Bronze on QFF it should be bookable by OW partners, I don't think QF restrict their availability selectively to airlines like QR do.