Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[icecream]

My apologies… I misread the onward connection was out of HKG, not KIX.

In this case it would calculate the trips as SYD-HKG-ICN and KIX-HEL-FRA.

KIX-HEL-FRA is 5774 miles which is 108000 points.

Still comes to 125400+108000 = 233400.

Not sure how your get 125.4k for each leg? They are in different mileage bands.

Thanks @MEL_Traveller your answer makes the most sense. The cost comes from the reward tool but also multi city (looking at this leg only)

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Thanks @MEL_Traveller your answer makes the most sense. The cost comes from the reward tool but also multi city (looking at this leg only)

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It’s interesting.

The tool, and booking engine are returning incorrect results when searching for the individual trip!

According to the award tables published here: https://www.qantas.com/en-au/frequent-flyer/use-points/classic-flight-rewards/tables

… together with great circle mapper to get the distance*: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui

The actual mileage should fall within the lower band by 26 miles (5776 miles vs band limit of 5800 miles)

When using the multicity tool it appear to be calculating this correctly, and charging the 108k miles for KIX-HEL-FRA.

When buying individually it seems to be pushing over the 5800 mileage band to charge 125.4k


* in a tiny percent of cases mileage may differ between great circle mapper and airline systems… due mainly to historic airport locations. But this is usually only a few miles and not important unless right at the mileage band limit. But that doesn’t appear the case here as both OSA and ITM airports actually have a lower mileage to FRA than KIX!

It seems to be a sneaky way to increase cost by QF. I noticed it as well for some other connections involving AY which were at the mileage band limit as well