Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[There'sOnlyOneJimmy]

Hello, I have been reading the classic flight rewards T&C on changes and my understanding is that routes and times can be changed up to 24 hours before a booked segment after ticketing and after the first flight of the itinerary has been taken. If no segment exists then flights can be added up to the 35,000 miles limit. Is that correct? I have a confirmed itinerary starting in March 2026 and have only used up around 20,000 miles. I am tossing up between booking a sub-optimal flight now for Feb 2027 or waiting to this time next year when I expect a lot more availability to come online, judging on what's available now for Feb 2026. Is this rational?

No., the opportunity to make changes once the first flight has been taken are very limited.
From the rules:

Changes within 24 hours of departure of a Flight Segment
14.5.12 The following changes are permitted to Qantas Flight Segments. A Change Fee will apply (see the Fee Schedule):
(a) change to flight number; and
(b) change to date of travel.

 

[flyguy77]

I’ve been trying to plan a Oneworld award to get rid of the last of my Qantas Points and honestly, Business Class availability feels absolutely terrible right now.

I’ve been checking manually almost daily and have had alerts running via tools like seats.aero for over six months on routes to Africa and the US, and it’s achieved basically nothing. There are just zero Business seats available over the next 12 months.

Is this the general trend others are seeing as well?
And if so, how are people actually managing to book these oneworld Business awards at the moment?

I know Business seats are rare but I don't remember it always being this bad?

 

[WilsonM]

I’ve been trying to plan a Oneworld award to get rid of the last of my Qantas Points and honestly, Business Class availability feels absolutely terrible right now.

I’ve been checking manually almost daily and have had alerts running via tools like seats.aero for over six months on routes to Africa and the US, and it’s achieved basically nothing. There are just zero Business seats available over the next 12 months.

Is this the general trend others are seeing as well?
And if so, how are people actually managing to book these oneworld Business awards at the moment?

I know Business seats are rare but I don't remember it always being this bad?

It's not great, but obviously depends on when/where you're going and how many seats you're looking for.

For me (and I fully acknowledge that this works for me and may not work for you/anyone else), I find the key is just get out of Australia by any means, then I can usually find something to go onwards to where I want to go (often Europe). Places like Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong are not too bad right now - also, post 26 October, MEL-BKK on AY is good for availability. A couple of days stopover might be necessary as well, but that's the game.

T-PAC is hot garbage now though, and without QR on a OWCR connectivity in Africa (except North Africa) is also pretty bad - can't see this improving.

 

[chhan007]

Fiji Airways is now part of the Oneworld Award, as of 10 Dec 2025

Tried adding the flights from Fiji Airways into my RTW flight, and it's not working on Qantas' system. Did anyone have any luck so far?

 

[cambriamarsh]

Tried adding the flights from Fiji Airways into my RTW flight, and it's not working on Qantas' system. Did anyone have any luck so far?

It worked on a dummy booking I did a month or so ago. Has that changed? What is your itinerary?

 

[chhan007]

It worked on a dummy booking I did a month or so ago. Has that changed? What is your itinerary?

You are right @cambriamarsh, called Qantas CC today and did confirm that I could add Fiji flights to Oneworld classic ticket. My itinerary so far looks like this
SYD - BLR - CMB - CDG (stopover) - LHR - JFK (stop over) - YYZ - ORD - LAS (stopover) - LAX - HNL

We are leaving in June this year and my plan is to cancel Los angeles flight and swap it with fiji airways. Also, later this year, add flights from either NAN or AKL (as they are both showing good availablity to somewhere asia and return back to Australia.

 

[bobcat]

Hey, we are departing on a oneworld booking this year
BRISBANE to TOKYO via HONG KONG (1)
TOKYO to PARIS (2)
BORDEAUX to SINGAPORE via LONDON (3)
SINGAPORE to BRISBANE via SYDNEY (4)

Am I right in thinking I'm currently unable to add a 5th stopover for 2027 .. as we're already back in original starting country of the trip?

And if so ... is it possible to remove the first leg (BNE to HKG) and add the 5th stopover then? From memory the first leg must remain the first leg in any version of the oneworld booking ... but I may have my wires crossed.

Finally .. can anybody confirm how taxes are recalculated when making changes? An agent suggested every single flight in the itinerary is re-priced at current taxes, rather than just the individual leg(s) added/edited.

Thanks again for everyone's help!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Hey, we are departing on a oneworld booking this year
BRISBANE to TOKYO via HONG KONG (1)
TOKYO to PARIS (2)
BORDEAUX to SINGAPORE via LONDON (3)
SINGAPORE to BRISBANE via SYDNEY (4)

Am I right in thinking I'm currently unable to add a 5th stopover for 2027 .. as we're already back in original starting country of the trip?

And if so ... is it possible to remove the first leg (BNE to HKG) and add the 5th stopover then? From memory the first leg must remain the first leg in any version of the oneworld booking ... but I may have my wires crossed.

Finally .. can anybody confirm how taxes are recalculated when making changes? An agent suggested every single flight in the itinerary is re-priced at current taxes, rather than just the individual leg(s) added/edited.

Thanks again for everyone's help!

Removing BNE-HKG will do the trick. You could replace it with DPS-HGK or SIN-HKG, ie, places cheap and close by to start.

The entire itinerary will be repriced for taxes fees and charges. Same as a revenue ticket.

 

[Kangol]

Has anyone ever done this before?

Change the date only of a partner award online - with the same origin/destination, flight number and class. Just push it back to a future date.
This is clearly given there is availability for the new flight.
I ask because when the flight I want is due to open up, I may not be in an area where phone access is handy. So if there is an option to do it online, that would help.

This is also the only flight in an itinerary (ie. the first, before making future changes to add subsequent flights)

 

[VladimirH]

Wow I didn't appreciate how difficult it would be to book a multi trip itinerary for a Europe holiday in June with a following Asia trip in April the next year. It's exponentially more difficult to do so in Business class. Any tips on the below itinerary in regards to flight options to make this happen. All Europe options are directing me to travel via New York! Which kills the multi-trip itinerary idea.

Trip #1 Europe - early June 2026 (based Sydney)
Singapore -> Rome (early June)
Land segment- Rome -> Athens
Athens -> Sydney

Trip #2 Asia - April 2027
Sydney -> Tokyo
Tokyo -> Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh -> Singapore

I'm not too fussed on departing exactly from Singapore but intent is to reach Europe visiting Italy's South & Greece for 4 weeks, followed by a 3 week Asia trip the following year.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Wow I didn't appreciate how difficult it would be to book a multi trip itinerary for a Europe holiday in June with a following Asia trip in April the next year. It's exponentially more difficult to do so in Business class. Any tips on the below itinerary in regards to flight options to make this happen. All Europe options are directing me to travel via New York! Which kills the multi-trip itinerary idea.

Trip #1 Europe - early June 2026 (based Sydney)
Singapore -> Rome (early June)
Land segment- Rome -> Athens
Athens -> Sydney

Trip #2 Asia - April 2027
Sydney -> Tokyo
Tokyo -> Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh -> Singapore

I'm not too fussed on departing exactly from Singapore but intent is to reach Europe visiting Italy's South & Greece for 4 weeks, followed by a 3 week Asia trip the following year.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

I just did some dummy searches and found SIN-MCT and MCT-FCO… can WY be used already in OWA?

Otherwise have you checked Sri Lankan via CMB? Sri Lankan via ME, connecting to BA or RJ, routes via AMM, or via HEL or London.

You might need to break them into the components via the respective hubs.