HI all,
First time posting but really enjoyed reading all other posts. I'm hoping someone may have had a similar experience to mine and could share the outcome and/or advice.
We originally booked a business RTW classic reward ticket with Qantas for travel this Sept (we were newbies and had NO idea the issues we were going to face with delayed phone calls, ticketing issues, and etc). We're bronze being such newbs
We have many flights on the one booking and the outbound flight to the UK is BNE -> KUL (direct) 6 Sept 2022 on MH 134. It's ages away but I wanted to see how full it was so tried to search for it on the Malaysian Airline website and the flight doesn't come up. Alarm bells goes off. Especially since we have a connecting flight to catch to get to UK with another airline (we left about 10 hrs transit in case of delays).
I tried to google this issue and found an article on TPG on what to look out for when airlines start to cancel fights:
1) Flights no longer available to book. 2) Flights are 'zeroed' out on EF.
So I looked on EF and yes, indeed it looks like the flights are "zeroed' out, see attached. But I have no notification from Qantas on the flight cancellation (and I've had plenty previously on our trip with BA, AA and QR flights).
I called up Malaysian Airlines and they confirmed that the flight is no longer appearing on the website but said it's still scheduled and probably sold out. I highly doubt that as I've looked about a month ago and there's approx only 10 seats taken (I know some people don't choose seats until check in) but all the flights around that time aren't sold out either. and it's Brisbane for travel over 2 months away...
My questions are below:
1) Should I expect that this flight will be cancelled soon and if so has anyone experienced this and what were the time frames between finding out it wasn't bookable/zeroed out to official cancellation. Do you think booking through Qantas has 'delayed' the message of it being cancelled or disadvantages us for replacement flights?
2) If it's cancelled, I assume MH will put me on another flight but only if there is a reward business available? I can't find any business reward booking flight out of BNE, SYD or ADL (was being desperate and looking for back up options). I'm starting to panic that they will only tell us a week out and then not even economy would be available!!!
3 ) Has anyone experienced this and NOT had the flight cancelled and travelled on the zeroed out flight?
4 ) Any advice on next steps? I guess I'll have to wait for the dreaded email and then numerous calls to find an alternative (there don't seem to be many) ?
Thanks in advance!
First time posting but really enjoyed reading all other posts. I'm hoping someone may have had a similar experience to mine and could share the outcome and/or advice.
We originally booked a business RTW classic reward ticket with Qantas for travel this Sept (we were newbies and had NO idea the issues we were going to face with delayed phone calls, ticketing issues, and etc). We're bronze being such newbs
We have many flights on the one booking and the outbound flight to the UK is BNE -> KUL (direct) 6 Sept 2022 on MH 134. It's ages away but I wanted to see how full it was so tried to search for it on the Malaysian Airline website and the flight doesn't come up. Alarm bells goes off. Especially since we have a connecting flight to catch to get to UK with another airline (we left about 10 hrs transit in case of delays).
I tried to google this issue and found an article on TPG on what to look out for when airlines start to cancel fights:
1) Flights no longer available to book. 2) Flights are 'zeroed' out on EF.
So I looked on EF and yes, indeed it looks like the flights are "zeroed' out, see attached. But I have no notification from Qantas on the flight cancellation (and I've had plenty previously on our trip with BA, AA and QR flights).
I called up Malaysian Airlines and they confirmed that the flight is no longer appearing on the website but said it's still scheduled and probably sold out. I highly doubt that as I've looked about a month ago and there's approx only 10 seats taken (I know some people don't choose seats until check in) but all the flights around that time aren't sold out either. and it's Brisbane for travel over 2 months away...
My questions are below:
1) Should I expect that this flight will be cancelled soon and if so has anyone experienced this and what were the time frames between finding out it wasn't bookable/zeroed out to official cancellation. Do you think booking through Qantas has 'delayed' the message of it being cancelled or disadvantages us for replacement flights?
2) If it's cancelled, I assume MH will put me on another flight but only if there is a reward business available? I can't find any business reward booking flight out of BNE, SYD or ADL (was being desperate and looking for back up options). I'm starting to panic that they will only tell us a week out and then not even economy would be available!!!
3 ) Has anyone experienced this and NOT had the flight cancelled and travelled on the zeroed out flight?
4 ) Any advice on next steps? I guess I'll have to wait for the dreaded email and then numerous calls to find an alternative (there don't seem to be many) ?
Thanks in advance!