Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[timbo86]

big thread to dig through and after an hour of reading, risking asking the question again seemed reasonable. thanks anyway

 

[Mr H]

big thread to dig through and after an hour of reading, risking asking the question again seemed reasonable. thanks anyway

Clue - first post, sixth line.

 

[DC3]

big thread to dig through and after an hour of reading, risking asking the question again seemed reasonable. thanks anyway

Welcome to AFF. I found that it took weeks of reading to get a grip on most of this.

 

[KingHuang]

Would anyone happen to have an example of a few status credits earnt (or some good paths) as a result of flying with awards as a PC/PC+ member?

 

[Sainter]

I've tried to research this as much as I could but seem to get varying answers to similar problems. If the start of my OWA is SYD > HKG (CX) HKG > HEL > FCO (AY) all on the same day, but want to change my premium economy cathay leg to a business MEL > HKG leg, is this going to be a simple 5,000 points per passenger change or do I risk losing everything as the other legs go back into the reward seat pool temporarily?

 

[Kangol]

Would anyone happen to have an example of a few status credits earnt (or some good paths) as a result of flying with awards as a PC/PC+ member?

Classic Flight Reward tables | Qantas Frequent Flyer

See how many Status Credits you’ll earn on Qantas marketed Classic Flight Rewards as a member of Points Club or Points Club Plus.

www.qantas.com

SYD-LHR, 126 SC in F
LAX-MEL, 81 SC in F

 

[pyramidforce]

I've tried to research this as much as I could but seem to get varying answers to similar problems. If the start of my OWA is SYD > HKG (CX) HKG > HEL > FCO (AY) all on the same day, but want to change my premium economy cathay leg to a business MEL > HKG leg, is this going to be a simple 5,000 points per passenger change or do I risk losing everything as the other legs go back into the reward seat pool temporarily?

At the risk of sounding like a negative nancy, if you make any change at any time to your qantas OWA there is a risk you will lose everything because QF agents are intentionally undertrained and therefore likely to make a mistake that nukes everything. Then again, reward ticketing escalations may or may not be able to help you and there dont seem to be as many complaints posted recently compared to before, so YMMV.

Even If everything works the way it does work, it is unlikely that it will be a 5k change. Because your highest class of travel is now J intead of premium Y, the price will recalculate to use the lower of individual segments added together vs 318k cap for J, and the agent may need more than 5k points to make up the difference.

 

[djkelly69]

an example of a few status credits earnt

SYD-LAX or LAX-SYD in J, 72SC.

I assume you are aware you will only earn them on QF metal?

 

[elanshin]

Just a sanity check before i go requesting/amending my current flights.

KUL- SIN (MH) - HND (JL) Stop 1
HND - SYD (QF) Stop 2
SYD - BKK (QF) Stop 3
BKK - (SYD/HKG -QF/CX) - MEL (QF/CX) Stop 4
MEL - HKG (QF/CX) - LHR (CX) Stop 5
HEL - SIN (AY) END.

Couple of flexible time / WP requests on QF needed hence not certain on exact routing back from BKK and going fro MEL - HKG.

 

[elanshin]

Would anyone happen to have an example of a few status credits earnt (or some good paths) as a result of flying with awards as a PC/PC+ member?

Run around domestically a lot? You could in theory go from PER to SIN via MEL, BNE, DRW all in one leg for example.

 

[nickfromeastryde]

I've tried to research this as much as I could but seem to get varying answers to similar problems. If the start of my OWA is SYD > HKG (CX) HKG > HEL > FCO (AY) all on the same day, but want to change my premium economy cathay leg to a business MEL > HKG leg, is this going to be a simple 5,000 points per passenger change or do I risk losing everything as the other legs go back into the reward seat pool temporarily?

I've booked 2 OWA's for next year and phoned through 3 times to add additional flights across those bookings. Have received my e-Ticket within 30 minutes every time. I did have to HUACA a few times as some operators had no idea when making these changes. Not sure if I have just been lucky but it does appear that Qantas have improved something in their backend processing. Not once did I manage to talk to Hobart so it seems that the standard across the other call centres is perhaps improving. Certainly takes a lot of the stress away not having to worry about losing a previously confirmed flight.

 

[sap1l]

Just a sanity check before i go requesting/amending my current flights.

KUL- SIN (MH) - HND (JL) Stop 1
HND - SYD (QF) Stop 2
SYD - BKK (QF) Stop 3
BKK - (SYD/HKG -QF/CX) - MEL (QF/CX) Stop 4
MEL - HKG (QF/CX) - LHR (CX) Stop 5
HEL - SIN (AY) END.

Couple of flexible time / WP requests on QF needed hence not certain on exact routing back from BKK and going fro MEL - HKG.

The routing looks fine to me. Depending on the actual route you get though, it barely hits 36k miles on GCM. So you may have issues.

e.g. if you do BKK-HKG-MEL, it’s 36,291 miles on GCM.

 

[elanshin]

The routing looks fine to me. Depending on the actual route you get though, it barely hits 36k miles on GCM. So you may have issues.

e.g. if you do BKK-HKG-MEL, it’s 36,291 miles on GCM.

Oh thanks i knee something didn't look quite right this time vs when i first looked into this trip.

Had GCM on nautical miles instead of miles. (For nm it comes out to 31k )

 

[sap1l]

Had GCM on nautical miles instead of miles. (For nm it comes out to 31k )

I wish the limit was 35k nm!

 

[elanshin]

We can't use FJ yet for OWA right?

 

[sap1l]

We can't use FJ yet for OWA right?

Nope, still not a full member yet.

 

[frodo]

I received an email from Finnair about a schedule change for my OWA. It's a 5 minute change but asks me to accept the changes in the Finnair MMB.

No correspondence from QF about this change. Will accepting the change in the finnair MMB affect the booking at all, and what if I decide to ignore it instead?

 

[sap1l]

I received an email from Finnair about a schedule change for my OWA. It's a 5 minute change but asks me to accept the changes in the Finnair MMB.

No correspondence from QF about this change. Will accepting the change in the finnair MMB affect the booking at all, and what if I decide to ignore it instead?

I’ve had the same 5 minute change, but I also got an email from QF for the same change.

I ignored both emails, and never got issued a new e-ticket until a few weeks later when I made separate changes.

Sorry it’s not exactly your situation, but I think you’ll be fine to either ignore or accept the changes on Finnair MMB.

 

[Amanad78]

We received an email from Finn Air for a 20 min change. Accepted the change, also received an email from Qantas with a new e-ticket

 

[smiliemonster]

I received an email from Finnair about a schedule change for my OWA. It's a 5 minute change but asks me to accept the changes in the Finnair MMB.

No correspondence from QF about this change. Will accepting the change in the finnair MMB affect the booking at all, and what if I decide to ignore it instead?

I've done this several times and accepted the change via the MMB link in the email from Finnair. They then issue a new (Qantas) ticket - i.e the ticket number starts with 081. Sometimes I get an updated ticket/notification from Qantas too, sometimes I don't. I think it depends on the itinerary.