RSD
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I will add a post here about lessons learned during the day as that might help some others -
Firstly, with the DSC offer only applying to QF-operated fares, going QF to Singapore then picking up Emirates flights (with a QF flight number) from there does help with earning SC's from a trip. I've also found that going via Singapore instead of the one long sector direct to Dubai means that I arrive fresher at my eventual destination (in my case usually Cairo).
The QF search engine will usually give you lots of options from say MEL to say CAI - but they are all straight on to Emirates straight to Dubai - the option to go via Singapore usually isn't offered - so you have to make a booking using the Multi-City booking engine on the QF website. Right about there is where it all starts to turn to cactus unless you know a) the fine print in the rules, b) that Qantas will do everything to not offer you a seat on QF1/2 up to Singapore, and a few other complexities.
To get QF1 it seems as though you have to start your multi-city booking in Sydney (Canberra may possibly work - you would need to try it). The multi-city engine will allow you to select say MEL-SYD-(QF1)SIN and onward and will then let you enter passenger details etc and hire cars and what not - but you will never reach the payment page because at that point the whole thing collapses and you get a page with at least three error codes and it is back to the start again. So start your booking in Sydney and make another booking for the flights you need to get to Sydney.
A lot of the Emirates flights from Singapore are offered only as married sectors - so you can't put say SIN-DXB then DXB to say CAI into the search engine - if you do it will allow you to pick EK for the SIN-DXB leg but then it will only offer you DXB-CAI but via Amman on Royal Jordanian - which adds a few more hours to the overall trip and gets you about the same SC's as DXB-CAI direct on EK. Instead just put into the search engine say SIN-CAI and it will allow you to pick EK flights with QF flight numbers from SIN-DXB then DXB-CAI - or wherever you want to go.
Do the same for the return leg - CAI-SIN and then choose the flights you want with QF flight numbers, and only book as far as SYD on QF2 - otherwise the website goes into lots of errors again.
Its a bit of a stuff around but getting the DSC's on the SYD-SIN leg is worthwhile, and as I mentioned you may find that you arrive at your destination fresher - I do.
BTW I haven't flown Royal Jordanian but will try it sometime soon - they should offer a quality product. At the moment the nearest they fly to Oz is Bangkok which is their only destination in Asia as far as I can see.
Firstly, with the DSC offer only applying to QF-operated fares, going QF to Singapore then picking up Emirates flights (with a QF flight number) from there does help with earning SC's from a trip. I've also found that going via Singapore instead of the one long sector direct to Dubai means that I arrive fresher at my eventual destination (in my case usually Cairo).
The QF search engine will usually give you lots of options from say MEL to say CAI - but they are all straight on to Emirates straight to Dubai - the option to go via Singapore usually isn't offered - so you have to make a booking using the Multi-City booking engine on the QF website. Right about there is where it all starts to turn to cactus unless you know a) the fine print in the rules, b) that Qantas will do everything to not offer you a seat on QF1/2 up to Singapore, and a few other complexities.
To get QF1 it seems as though you have to start your multi-city booking in Sydney (Canberra may possibly work - you would need to try it). The multi-city engine will allow you to select say MEL-SYD-(QF1)SIN and onward and will then let you enter passenger details etc and hire cars and what not - but you will never reach the payment page because at that point the whole thing collapses and you get a page with at least three error codes and it is back to the start again. So start your booking in Sydney and make another booking for the flights you need to get to Sydney.
A lot of the Emirates flights from Singapore are offered only as married sectors - so you can't put say SIN-DXB then DXB to say CAI into the search engine - if you do it will allow you to pick EK for the SIN-DXB leg but then it will only offer you DXB-CAI but via Amman on Royal Jordanian - which adds a few more hours to the overall trip and gets you about the same SC's as DXB-CAI direct on EK. Instead just put into the search engine say SIN-CAI and it will allow you to pick EK flights with QF flight numbers from SIN-DXB then DXB-CAI - or wherever you want to go.
Do the same for the return leg - CAI-SIN and then choose the flights you want with QF flight numbers, and only book as far as SYD on QF2 - otherwise the website goes into lots of errors again.
Its a bit of a stuff around but getting the DSC's on the SYD-SIN leg is worthwhile, and as I mentioned you may find that you arrive at your destination fresher - I do.
BTW I haven't flown Royal Jordanian but will try it sometime soon - they should offer a quality product. At the moment the nearest they fly to Oz is Bangkok which is their only destination in Asia as far as I can see.
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