Qantas - Emirates Award flight Discussion

[MonteCristo]

Dumb question alert for the brains trust: Is it possible to make a standalone Qantas classic rewards booking with Emirates from Malta to Larnaca (Cyprus)? Either by calling Qantas, or somehow online.

I can't get Malta to appear as a destination unless I start with a multi-city first leg in Rome FCO, but the routing is bad (from Rome, to London, then on to Malta), and charges don't make it worth it.

 

[SYD]

Not surprising as I imagine there'd be not much margin basically being a travel agent for Emirates...

Pretty sure it’s a lot deeper agreement than just a TA for EK.

It’s not uncommon to see the EK operated QF codeshare flights slightly cheaper than QF’s own metal.

 

[MELso]

Pretty sure it’s a lot deeper agreement than just a TA for EK.

When you buy a QF codeshare on Emirates, Qantas is basically selling a seat on EK in the capacity of an agent.

Yes, they dress it up with a few more loyalty frills and perks (seat selection! status credits! more points!), but at its core, when you buy a QF8xx_ flight, Qantas is acting as a sales agent for Emirates...

 

[SYD]

When you buy a QF codeshare on Emirates, Qantas is basically selling a seat on EK in the capacity of an agent.

Yes, they dress it up with a few more loyalty frills and perks (seat selection! status credits! more points!), but at its core, when you buy a QF8xx_ flight, Qantas is acting as a sales agent for Emirates...

It’s not a full revenue share agreement but I believe they do get to jointly price fares on the various routes - to mutual benefit of both partners. So again, more than just a pas through arrangement. QF make a lot of money off the EK partnership.

 

[lovestotravel]

From another thread

Emirates appears to be releasing F rewards a month out between Australia and Dubai.

There are quite a few days with DXB to BNE or MEL in January.

I had previously snagged a F reward from Europe to Dubai and then was going to fly Y back on Qatar to Australia, was able to call and snag an F seat instead added to the existing booking.

They also seem to be readily available again ex SYD for late next year. Getting F beyond DXB is still problematic.

Nothing for MEL-DXB in F for a few weeks now, I got excited when daily 1 or 2 x F were being loaded late October, but they are now gone and nothing new has appeared.

It really seems the only way we'll get J or F on EK is about one month out

 

[am0985]

They're now releasing award space DXB - SYD on the 6am service in November most days.

Can't see many options beyond DXB in F though sadly

 

[SYD]

Can't see many options beyond DXB in F though sadly

There’s some but you need to wrestle the search engine. Who knows what EK have done but there still seems to be some hardwired “married segment” logic in there. Searching DXB-Euro was coming up with nothing but straight SYD-Euro reveals stuff, as does SYD-DXB-Euro…. Forget LON* or CDG but some other cities have availability.



Unfortunately, it’s only the sparrow’s flight out of SYD that seems to have F seats but J on most - for now (in the Oct/Nov window currently).

*can’t see any F/J into LHR or LGW.

 

[am0985]

There’s some but you need to wrestle the search engine. Who knows what EK have done but there still seems to be some hardwired “married segment” logic in there. Searching DXB-Euro was coming up with nothing but straight SYD-Euro reveals stuff, as does SYD-DXB-Euro…. Forget LON* or CDG but some other cities have availability.

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Unfortunately, it’s only the sparrow’s flight out of SYD that seems to have F seats but J on most - for now (in the Oct/Nov window currently).

*can’t see any F/J into LHR or LGW.

That's interesting - previously you actually needed to separate out the flights on the multi city itinerary in order to find availability. Now the opposite seems to be true.

Still very annoying that we can't search for flights originating in DXB thanks to the bug in the search system!