Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[frequentflier]

Welcome to AFF

Consider splitting 2 +1 which would make it a bit easier. YVR - TPE sound like China Airline (CI) which is NOT a OW carrier (skyteam) so becareful on the Qantas search engine.
HKG/NRT/HND come to mind for YVR as the main hubs to fly to. QF also does fly there from SYD but exceptionally limited seats.
FJ also has a flight to NAN but I'm not sure if FJ is part of the OWA yet.
Otherwise you could consider backtracking via Europe - you should have enough miles to be able to go that direction too.


Also how are you doing YUL - YVR. There's no OW carrier in Canada (unless that's a surface segment).

Excellent point re CI, hadn't realised that. Thanks. Yes surfact sector in Canada, I should've clarified.

The 2+1 split is a good idea. You mean so that we can do 2x J and 1x Y on certain sectors if needed?

Hypothetically, if I booked YVR-NRT-Aus and then YVR-SYD magically popped up later, could I call and switch out the NRT leg for the direct YVR-SYD flight? Believe so, but haven't booked OWA before. I have seats.aero subscription for alerts, but still seems very unlikely.

 

[elanshin]

Excellent point re CI, hadn't realised that. Thanks. Yes surfact sector in Canada, I should've clarified.

The 2+1 split is a good idea. You mean so that we can do 2x J and 1x Y on certain sectors if needed?

Either in that split or one person travels in a different route / timing.

Hypothetically, if I booked YVR-NRT-Aus and then YVR-SYD magically popped up later, could I call and switch out the NRT leg for the direct YVR-SYD flight? Believe so, but haven't booked OWA before. I have seats.aero subscription for alerts, but still seems very unlikely.

Yes that is possible. But I'd say that it's even harder to find a flight to NRT/HND as it's NA summer and Japan is still super popular.

Honestly your chances of going across the pacific are very slim with YVR without touching US Mainland. You may want to consider expanding to include YYZ (Toronto). But your most realistic option is back tracking across Europe.

Edit: I can see 2J and 1 W (Premium economy) for QF SCL - SYD on Aug 20 and Sep 1 - not sure if this needs higher status to see though.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

If you can get to Asia from YVR, you can consider an extra stop on the way home for better availability. For example QF flights from Manila or Jakarta might be available. So you could do tokyo-mnl/cgk-Australia, or HKG-mnl/cgk-Au etc.

 

[DejaBrew]

A very warm welcome aboard AFF @frequentflier

 

[elanshin]

Just checking if anyone knows about the status of New Zealand for OWA atm. Does the computer still think AKL is in Australia and thus if we start at AKL the computer won't let us stop in Australia afterwards?

 

[cloudsurfer]

Either in that split or one person travels in a different route / timing.


Yes that is possible. But I'd say that it's even harder to find a flight to NRT/HND as it's NA summer and Japan is still super popular.

Honestly your chances of going across the pacific are very slim with YVR without touching US Mainland. You may want to consider expanding to include YYZ (Toronto). But your most realistic option is back tracking across Europe.

Edit: I can see 2J and 1 W (Premium economy) for QF SCL - SYD on Aug 20 and Sep 1 - not sure if this needs higher status to see though.

Is splitting a group (in this scenario 3 people) between J and Y possible on a OWA leg? I don't see how it can be done when booking a full itinerary online, but are you suggesting a call centre can do so? I figure if, as you say, 'one person travels in a different route/timing' that persons OWA would be on a totally separate booking, which could prove tricky to mirror the other 2 people.

 

[elanshin]

Is splitting a group (in this scenario 3 people) between J and Y possible on a OWA leg? I don't see how it can be done when booking a full itinerary online, but are you suggesting a call centre can do so? I figure if, as you say, 'one person travels in a different route/timing' that persons OWA would be on a totally separate booking, which could prove tricky to mirror the other 2 people.

You'd need to end up with 2 separate PNRs which yes would cause issues and more hassle if you need to make changes or things happen.

You could however book lots of the other legs as 3 then ask for a split in the PNR when adding another sector with 2 in J and 1 in another class later.

Alternatively there are trip reports here of say parent 1 going one direction to the destination and parent 2 with child going another route and meeting up at the end point. It's all about what you're comfortable doing, whats available and how much of dealing with problems you like when things ago awry.

If you don't like to deal with it, but still want to do this, find a Travel agent who can do points bookings.