Qantas did something right! [Fixed Multi-City booking Form Reset]

[Pom-DownUnder]

Finally the multi-city remembers dates / destinations again when you refresh back to the starting point, that has annoyed me ever since they broke it, like 18 months ago

 

[snabbu]

Wow it really does remember the info, an actual enhancement!
Almost unbelievable.

 

[Pom-DownUnder]

Wow it really does remember the info, an actual enhancement!
Almost unbelievable.

used to years ago but something that broke during the coof

 

[justinbrett]

April fools joke, surely.

 

[Pom-DownUnder]

April fools joke, surely.

lol if its only for today and its broke again tomorrow that will be some top tier trolling

 

[exceladdict]

April fools joke, surely.

I was wondering if we'd see any AF jokes on AFF!

 

[justinbrett]

OK, now it's saying I have no bookings.

OK *nervous laugh* very funny, now bring them back...

 

[Dr Ralph]

This started happening several days ago.

 

[LostRedditor]

I noticed this too! Love it, it was annoying me to no end as I've been hammering this tool over the last 2 weeks.

If you use the tool to check single flights, though, clicking "Change Search" takes you to the regular flight booking page, so when doing that I click my Multi City bookmark

 

[ChrisMars]

That's brilliant.

Now, it will take much less time to find out that there is no award seats

 

[tdimdad]

Now they could do another odd change (in colloquial language = logical and useful): keep the booking form fields intact if I want to change the departure city. Now all fields get cleared and you need to refill them all.

Example: I'm checking flights for two people, one departing from SYD, another BNE. I get through the options for SYD-SIN in November and would then like to check the BNE legs for the same days. Change the departure point to BNE, and the whole form is emptied. The cities are easy but scrolling through the date fields takes ages when you can't just type in the dates you want.

If we could charge an hourly fee for the inefficiencies of their booking forms, they'd end up in negative balance and paying us to fly them...

 

[MelbFlyer]

The next thing Qantas needs to do, is to make reward bookings modifiable online, rather than having to call up, not knowing what the response will be (most likely - "we can't see the reward seats you can see online").

 

[Mattg]

This is indeed a welcome development!

In case anyone from Qantas comes across this thread, here are a few other fixes to the multi-city booking tool that would be great:

• When you're not logged in and try to search for Classic Reward flights, it gives you the option to input your search criteria and enter your frequent flyer login details at the bottom of the page. But when you click "log in and search flights" it logs you in but doesn't start searching. You then have to refresh the page and try doing your search again.
• It would be great if you didn't get an error message whenever you search for Classic Flight Rewards originating in DXB
• Make it possible to search for flights originating in TPE
• Make it possible to include airports such as VTE, MPM or GBE in your search
• Make it possible to end a sector in airports such as HAN, PNH, DAD or BKI
• Make it possible to view the taxes & carrier charges on an award booking you've found using the multi-city tool, even if you don't yet have enough points in your account to book that itinerary. (I suspect this is a "feature" rather than a bug, but there's really no reason that this information should be hidden?)

 

[Lynda2475]

Given when this was posted I had just assumed it was an Apri Fool joke.

 

[tdimdad]

• Make it possible to search for flights originating in TPE

April Fool's or not, is this why I failed all weekend in my searches??? Why does the engine not serve segments which are covered by OW partner airlines and in this case also non-OW but QF codeshare flights.

 

[jase05]

The multi city tool is showing me different award availability to what the regular search does.

 

[quemco]

The next thing Qantas needs to do, is to make reward bookings modifiable online, rather than having to call up, not knowing what the response will be (most likely - "we can't see the reward seats you can see online").

Did this last week.
Worked brilliantly, only wanted to change the date one leg of a J return flight PER-SIN, in the old days call centre would have cancelled the old booking completely and lost both bookings, now no trouble at all. Had steeled myself for a couple of hours on the phone.
About time, but at least it was seamless.

 

[Cbl25]

It would be great if you didn't get an error message whenever you search for Classic Flight Rewards originating in DXB

Is there a workaround for the originating in DXB issue?

 

[Mattg]

Is there a workaround for the originating in DXB issue?

Do a one-way or return flight search, rather than using the multi-city tool. Or, add a dummy flight from somewhere else as Flight 1 and the flight departing Dubai as Flight 2 in your multi-city search.

 

[jase05]

Do a one-way or return flight search, rather than using the multi-city tool. Or, add a dummy flight from somewhere else as Flight 1 and the flight departing Dubai as Flight 2 in your multi-city search.

What if the one way search tool shows completely different availability and in that case which one is accurate?
I guess I’ll have to cross check everything with EF