Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[MEL_Traveller]

Can someone please advise what I’m doing wrong here?
My points won’t cap when I do a dummy booking?

Because you have mixed classes.

If you add up the total points required for each sector, according to class, it requires fewer points than a full business class routing.

I get the flights above coming to about 270300 points.

It will only cap if you go over 318000 points (for business)

Your award can’t cap at the premium economy band because you have a business class sector in there.

 

[nickfromeastryde]

Hi,
I have booked the first flights for next years OWA. I am leaving from SYD. I would like my last stop to be in AKL before returning to SYD. I cannot add the last sectors for a few months but I notice that most flights from AKL to SYD are Classic Plus. Do the rules permit me to fly AKL-MEL-SYD or AKL-BNE-SYD as these are available as Qantas Classic? There will be no problem with miles or number of flights.
Thanks in advance.

You can't add Classic Plus to a OWA

 

[algae]

This thread has sure grown since i last visited!

We (2xpeople) did our first OWA trip last year all in business:
Perth>Hong Kong>Toronto>London>Madrid>Marrakech> London>Stockholm>Helsinki>Tokyo [train] Osaka>Tokyo>Hong Kong>Perth.

And while it was an amazing 12-flight 29,797 mile trip, god it was an absolute pain to book. I spent comfortably over 20h on the phone with Qantas over the 12 months leading up to the first flight.
The issues with qantas' inability to reticket on time were shocking and a constant source of stress and problems. Almost put me off doing it again.

I've just booked a second trip for the 2 of us. This time:
Perth>Hong Kong>Colombo>Seoul>Helsinki>Vienna> Helsinki>Tokyo>Honolulu>Tokyo>KualaLumpur>Perth

I only just did the math for this comment, but realised this 11 flight trip is 34,545 miles. Right up to the 35,000 mile limit. All in business other than the HND>HNL>HND flights which are premium economy unfortunately!

I had to call Qantas because of their website limitation on adding a 5th(or 6th?) segment, it fails. So I booked 10 flights online and then called to add the 11th. When i called, I immediately got connected (no wait! Crazy new concept for me), and when i mentioned a points booking, i was transferred to a 'specialist' who knew exactly what to do (another amazing initiative, and great job by Qantas'). When i mentioned reticketing she said it would be done in a couple hours, when i pushed, she said she would make a personal note to follow-up on it and make sure it was ticketed.
It was ticketed within an hour or two.

Congrats Qantas, you've clearly improved your phone support 100-fold (minus leaking all my data). Genuinely impressed.

Question to you all: What's the current recommendation for a CheckMyTrip replacement to check my flights are still ticketed? I note CMT does now show eticket numbers again, but doesn't seem to update anymore after theyre first added.

 

[DC3]

Congrats Qantas, you've clearly improved your phone support 100-fold (minus leaking all my data). Genuinely impressed.

 

[tpor5488]

You can't add Classic Plus to

You can't add Classic Plus to a OWA

Thanks. I know that. That’s why I asked the question about the Classic awards with a final transit in the country of origin as I wasn’t sure that was allowed . Maybe could have phrased it better.