Qantas - Emirates Award flight Discussion

[k1s3k1]

did Qantas or Emirates just secretly remove all Emirates F availabilities to Europe now?
almost none to Europe in the next couple of weeks (usually a lot) and up to next year as well. usually plenty with 1 seats available.
checked DXB-BRU and DXB-AMS, and NONE. 0.

has something like this happened in the past before? possibly a glitch in the system?
I'm hoping F availabilities to/from Europe-DXB will show up again

 

[lovestotravel]

Availability on many routes are going away slowly....

 

[k1s3k1]

Availability on many routes are going away slowly....

Europe-DXB in either direction in F are completely gone!

 

[lovestotravel]

Yep suspect F has been fully enhanced

 

[k1s3k1]

Yep suspect F has been fully enhanced

Surprisingly seats within the next 1 month or so are included.
Usually they are quite generous in making those F seats redeemable if they're still available..

 

[RealtimeY]

I'm still seeing EK F seats on Aeroplan up to 20 June, so it appears that specifically QFF access to these seats has been yanked.

 

[badbed]

It’s because Qantas moved Emirates from Partner table to Qantas table yesterday. Apparently these two tables have different rules to release classic rewards seat. Qantas has confirmed they are working on it and trying to get it restored.

 

[k1s3k1]

It’s because Qantas moved Emirates from Partner table to Qantas table yesterday. Apparently these two tables have different rules to release classic rewards seat. Qantas has confirmed they are working on it and trying to get it restored.

strange that J reward seats are not affected though?

did you get in touch with Qantas?

 

[SYD]

I'm still seeing EK F seats on Aeroplan up to 20 June, so it appears that specifically QFF access to these seats has been yanked.

I can see some EK F MEL-DXB.

 

[k1s3k1]

I can see some EK F MEL-DXB.

Existing australia to dxb flights don't seem to be affected

 

[lovestotravel]

I can see some EK F MEL-DXB.

Yes F is back but nothing for March onwards still

Post automatically merged: Aug 6, 2025

DXB to MLE still nothing.

 

[k1s3k1]

Yes F is back but nothing for March onwards still

Post automatically merged: Aug 6, 2025

DXB to MLE still nothing.

Don't think it's been fixed yet. Most Europe to/from Dubai flights still no F availabilities even in June 2026. Still broken somewhere.
Hopefully Qantas fixes this soon.

 

[SYD]

Don't think it's been fixed yet. Most Europe to/from Dubai flights still no F availabilities even in June 2026. Still broken somewhere.
Hopefully Qantas fixes this soon.

Hopefully a different team looking at MU (or lack thereof). Still MIA for over 6 mths….

 

[badbed]

strange that J reward seats are not affected though?

did you get in touch with Qantas?

I did, and was told this matter has been escalated to their IT and Frequent Flyer teams for investigation. The flights, which are not affected, are the ones that have sharecode with Qantas. It's all because they simply moved table and didn't set up Emirates properly. As result, all the F class reward seats and the flights without QF sharecode are no longer appearing in the Classic Flight Reward search results.

Submitting an online complaint form might pressure them to resolve the issue more quickly.

 

[coltsfan2000]

Very helpful--thank you. Does anyone know what time of day EK usually releases F awards to QF? (Feel free to DM me.)

 

[lovestotravel]

It’s because Qantas moved Emirates from Partner table to Qantas table yesterday. Apparently these two tables have different rules to release classic rewards seat. Qantas has confirmed they are working on it and trying to get it restored.

I'm not sure I believe that sadly as the issue seems more widespread..

I did, and was told this matter has been escalated to their IT and Frequent Flyer teams for investigation. The flights, which are not affected, are the ones that have sharecode with Qantas. It's all because they simply moved table and didn't set up Emirates properly. As result, all the F class reward seats and the flights without QF sharecode are no longer appearing in the Classic Flight Reward search results.

Submitting an online complaint form might pressure them to resolve the issue more quickly.

If you get past the AI, or we cannot search availabilities here for you, and availability is subject to EK etc etc.

 

[robolb]

Definitely something going on with EK and the lack of Classic reward seats Oz-DXB.
None in the 400k seat release.

It looks like an attempt to "burn" points reducing the points debt, through the use of "points planes". Rather like forcing people to take some annual leave to reduce the liability on a business. See the video:

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-frequent-flyer-releases-400000-more-reward-seats-with-points-planes-ready-for-take-off-to-paris-and-los-angeles/

 

[SYD]

Definitely something going on with EK and the lack of Classid reward seats Oz-DXB.
None in the 400k set release.

https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-frequent-flyer-releases-400000-more-reward-seats-with-points-planes-ready-for-take-off-to-paris-and-los-angeles/

QF can’t release additional EK seats (not theirs to release).

Yes, they could have been deliberately holding back but if those seats had been taken in the meantime then they’re gone. Not sure why QFF wouldn’t want peeps to have used their points on EK before 05 July (when it cost more points)….?

 

[lovestotravel]

Definitely something going on with EK and the lack of Classic reward seats Oz-DXB.
None in the 400k seat release.

It looks like an attempt to "burn" points reducing the points debt, through the use of "points planes". Rather like forcing people to take some annual leave to reduce the liability on a business. See the video:

Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/qantas-frequent-flyer-releases-400000-more-reward-seats-with-points-planes-ready-for-take-off-to-paris-and-los-angeles/

While I agree, and have been saying there is something up with EK from AU to DXB they wouldn't be on the 400k points planes as it's not QF metal

Plus those points planes are kinda useless as you end up with a one way seat and can't get back on QF. However I did get one last year PER-LHR on QF and had to return on SQ

Anyways at least ADL-DXB is working now, as long as you want Y class...........

 

[k1s3k1]

I did, and was told this matter has been escalated to their IT and Frequent Flyer teams for investigation. The flights, which are not affected, are the ones that have sharecode with Qantas. It's all because they simply moved table and didn't set up Emirates properly. As result, all the F class reward seats and the flights without QF sharecode are no longer appearing in the Classic Flight Reward search results.

Submitting an online complaint form might pressure them to resolve the issue more quickly.

Looks like still not fixed yet today. Still not seeing the many missing F class reward seats.