Qantas/Emirates flights Perth to Rome, April 2014

[WFPerth]

Hello,

First timer, first message, forgive me if I am posting in the wrong place.

I am trying to figure out the most expedient way to travel PER/FCO/PER using points with Emirates / Qantas.
My husband is a platinum with Qantas 265,000 points and we have around 100,000 points with Emirates. My son and I
have around 40K Qantas points too we could transfer to hubby's account. So not really enough points with either carrier.

Just two people (our 8 year old son and myself) travelling around 5 - 25 April, 2014 to see grandma in Rome.

Have done the 10-00pm emirates ex Perth (3 hours layover) quite a few times and happy with that. Looking at the 3.20pm ex FCO. (10 hours layover inside airport hotel) . Then grab the 10am flight back to Perth.

Are you able to combine Emirates/Qantas points ?
Are you allowed to take kids into the Emirates Lounge in DXB ?

I would welcome any advice or suggestions if there are better connections/ flights using oneworld. I have been looking for companion fares
as well , but there doesn't seem to be any around. (some have stipulations like 2 adults travelling)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
WFPerth

 

[mannej]

No - you can't combine QF and EK points.

 

[Mwenenzi]

Welcome to the forum

Qantas has one way awards. No idea if EK has one way awards
You could try PER-DXB as one ticket and DXB-FCO as another ticket (award or cash)

Look at the OneWorld route map to check who in OneWorld flys into FCO

 

[BD1959]

Hi WFPerth,

Welcome to AFF ... and you've probably posted in exactly the right place.

What class are you looking to travel? - am guessing J... looking at the dates you might be struggling for availability - assuming you can find that:

If you could find an additional 11K QFF points, that would give you a total of around 316k QFF points.

2 x DXB-PER J is 144k points + $280 - balance 172k

2 x PER-DXB is 192k points + $610 - your 172K can be topped-up by a maximum of 20k points costing $557

According to the EK website, you can upgrade a FCO-DXB economy fare to business for 50k each.

Not sure of any restrictions on that purchased economy for upgrade - and the lack of outbound J for 2 (there's currently better for 1) might be an issue, good luck!

Regards,

BD





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