Fly Ahead on Qantas

[oz_mark]

Just a note YMMV, I entered Syd J lounge on Saturday morning, the bloke in front of me tried to fly ahead and they refused. He said he usually has the app offer it and they said unless you're in a flex fare it's a no.
The international arrivals was hectic though with lots of pax being shuffled for missed connections which might have done it.

The transfer people for int->dom can perform all kinds of magic.
If you're just on a dom flight - then Qantas have to have enabled it for it to be in the app. It's often for weather or other operational reasons when they do it.

 

[im.daniel]

The transfer people for int->dom can perform all kinds of magic.

They're amazing! I don't think I've failed once in my request for flying ahead there (n=5ish) in recent times. The best one was being moved onto an earlier SYD-ADL with 40min prior to departure (HLO).

My friend (SG) had a SIN-SYD-ADL-ASP itinerary in Y last year, and they managed to book him on the SYD-ASP direct flight without blinking an eye.

 

[elanshin]

I'm confused at these options.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I'm confused at these options.

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The QF485 is the 1845 service, delayed until 2000.

The 493 is scheduled to depart at 2000 and is currently on time.

Both those options will end up leaving 2 hours earlier than your current 2200.

 

[elanshin]

The QF485 is the 1845 service, delayed until 2000.

The 493 is scheduled to depart at 2000 and is currently on time.

Both those options will end up leaving 2 hours earlier than your current 2200.

Haha sorry i was more confused at seeing 2 20:00 departures