Qantas ‘Year of Points Planes’ 2027

[TheInsider]

 

[mviy]

Points Planes for J/F on Sunrise in each direction about a month apart would be nice, but I would be very surprised if they made that available.

 

[J-P]

Points Planes for J/F on Sunrise in each direction about a month apart would be nice, but I would be very surprised if they made that available.

So 58 business & first seats? Which would go in 15 seconds and then return people here to complain again.

 

[fletty]

Yeah sounds misleading, every available seat can be booked as CR, but available doesn't mean every seat on the plane, just what they're willing to allocate.

 

[SYD]

Yeah sounds misleading, every available seat can be booked as CR, but available doesn't mean every seat on the plane, just what they're willing to allocate.

Well, if they’ve already sold seats they can’t really sell it again as a CR. We are talking about a flights in only a few months time!

 

[fletty]

Well, if they’ve already sold seats they can’t really sell it again as a CR. We are talking about a flights in only a few months time!

Yes, but they've exhausted CR availability on these 'points planes' but still have them available to purchase.

 

[Rocks]

See I actually disagree and it shows this promo is a scam.

Unless I'm struggling to understand, it clearly says every seat in all cabins as classic rewards.
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Then it has these dates:
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I'm very clearly searching SYD-HND here on the 5th of January and they are appearing as classic plus seats.
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There are still even J class seats for sale as cash fares.
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Thank you for this because I thought I was losing it...

That email is soooo incredibly misleading and makes it sound as though they are flights with all seats able to be booked through points

 

[SYD]

Yes, but they've exhausted CR availability on these 'points planes' but still have them available to purchase.

Apparently peeps will do anything to get on a “points” plane…

 

[Spacetravel]

Or try and mix ‘n match (points and $) to at least leverage one CR (with good availability).

Yes but 1 way international revenue bookings are almost the cost of a return, so the saving with a CR is gone. If the return points plane or other CR availability lines up with your dates its great but I’ve definitely had the situation before with a points plane where I wasn’t able to find a return flight and couldn’t use the points plane either.

 

[SYD]

Yes but 1 way international revenue bookings are almost the cost of a return, so the saving with a CR is gone. If the return points plane or other CR availability lines up with your dates its great but I’ve definitely had the situation before with a points plane where I wasn’t able to find a return flight and couldn’t use the points plane either.

No, you can book* a mixed CR (one way) and cash the other way. Quite handy if there’s a Sale on and you can book the outbound with $S and the return flight is ~353 days out**.

*there does seem to be some random exceptions to this as well as cabin restriction.
**use to work well pre-COVID but a bit hit ‘n miss now.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

No two ways about it. Every available seat means every seat that hasn’t already been sold to a fare paying passenger will be availablele as a CR.

Thats the literal english meaning.

I don’t understand how seats are still available for sale but not as rewards… unless… they know a certain percentage of people will cancel those awards and so they’re willing to oversell?