first reward costs less than business reward

[burneracc]

Mildly interesting find, was looking at EK reward flights via qantas and found a result where first class was literally cheaper than business. Is this common or a rarity? PER-DXB-VIE is the routing for context.

 

[Scr77]

First looks correct, but business should be 143k points. If you click through on the business fare, is it actually classic plus or have a connection more than 24hrs?

 

[henrus]

Mildly interesting find, was looking at EK reward flights via qantas and found a result where first class was literally cheaper than business. Is this common or a rarity? PER-DXB-VIE is the routing for context.

Often see things like this, if you click on the business it'll show one leg in first. The increase pricing is it trying to add a first and business together whereas the first all the way through is a lower number of points.

 

[burneracc]

Often see things like this, if you click on the business it'll show one leg in first. The increase pricing is it trying to add a first and business together whereas the first all the way through is a lower number of points.

Ah, clicked into it and this is accurate - PER-DXB is in first and then DXB-VIE is J for the J reward flight, and for some reason this is priced higher than first all the way through.

 

[serfty]

and for some reason this is priced higher than first all the way through.

Change in travel class can create a new "trip", so points cost is calculated as two separate one ways and added together. F cost for PER-DXB and J cost for DXB-VIE.

With the F all the way on same carrier, points cost is based on one trip, being the distance PER-xDXB-VIE.

 

[HMcM]

I had something like this happen to me late last year where on the same flight it was cheaper to fly in J than in Y. Even better it ended up being the widebody so I had the most useless lay flat seat for an hour and a half flight to Sydney.