Oneworld Classic Flight Reward Discussion - The Definitive Thread

[RackKing]

Hi Guys just joined and I am looking for help in finding One World Awards Business Class flights next year from Australia to Belgrade in Serbia and back to Sydney first and later in the year Australia to Los Angeles and Las Vegas for 4 adults. I have looked at every airline and there just isn't very many flights in Business Class shown available and basically none on Qantas. Need some tips and tricks please. Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Hi Guys just joined and I am looking for help in finding One World Awards Business Class flights next year from Australia to Belgrade in Serbia and back to Sydney first and later in the year Australia to Los Angeles and Las Vegas for 4 adults. I have looked at every airline and there just isn't very many flights in Business Class shown available and basically none on Qantas. Need some tips and tricks please. Any help greatly appreciated.

Welcome to AFF.

Unfortunately that is the hard reality. Premium class awards are extremely hard to come by. A
Little easier if you have platinum status with Qantas? Then you can request award seats to be released for you.

With four passengers you might want to consider splitting in to two parties of two… and travel separately. At least for the Australia to USA flights.

Or else, if you can see seats now on another airline… grab them! Availability won’t get any better unless Qantas does a batch release of seats. Which may be unlikely in the current environment with passengers avoiding the ME.

 

[EM8]

Hello
I’m looking at booking an around the world ticket using qantas rewards points.

My question is, can you book part of the trip them add to it later or do you need to book all flights at once?

If you can book part of it, let’s say the points total 280,000, then the second part would be another 280,000 but the business around the world is less than that. How does the points adjustment work? Is the second leg Capped and you add it through the call center for qantas?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Hello
I’m looking at booking an around the world ticket using qantas rewards points.

My question is, can you book part of the trip them add to it later or do you need to book all flights at once?

If you can book part of it, let’s say the points total 280,000, then the second part would be another 280,000 but the business around the world is less than that. How does the points adjustment work? Is the second leg Capped and you add it through the call center for qantas?

Yes, and many people do exactly that… book any available flights now, online if you can, then ring to add flights as they become available later.

The system will automatically cap once you satisfy all the rules of the oneworld award. So if your total is now 280k, and you add flights later, it will cap at OWA level.

You are changing a current booking when adding flights.

If it comes to more than you expect then either the flights aren’t being added correctly (some agents will want to sell you a new ticket), or you haven’t met the rules.

There’s a 5000 point change fee per lassenger, per set of changes you make.