Qantas' New Flight Reward Finder Tool

[hipster]

The new tool has quietly launched: https://flightrewardfinder.qantas.com/

The tool is developed & run by Gyoza Flights (you can see the design similarities). Qantas approached all the major reward seat tool providers. Many said no because they didn't want to become devs for Qantas, quite understandably.

It's better than nothing but not great. There are seats on AF between SCL and CDG in Business in mid June but none of the partner stuff (AF) comes up. So you still need to know who the partners are and where they fly to.

 

[SYD]

Making it easier, doesn’t always make it better. Making it easier to get tickets to Taylor Swift (<- insert here another high demand artist, if this one doesn’t suit ), doesn't make it better, they will just be gobbled up sooner and by a different market player (eg. scalpers).
The bit I am interested in here in terms of making it easier, is the impact to Qantas’s one world partners and what consequentially they release to Qantas. The biggest feature of this new tool, is that it strips all its partners premium award availability and publishes it openly without having to login etc…… not much impact to Qantas as it has no premium award availability . So if I was a partner airline, I certainly wouldn’t my award availability stripped and published in this manner……. I would further restrict releasing these seats to Qantas and hold them for my own customers and other partners that played this game the same way…….. so yes, I have concerns that when made easier, there will be negative impacts.

Yeah, that’s a reasonable point that the tool operates outside one’s FF login and open to anyone. I suspect it’ll also be useful for non QF FF looking for seats - the EK availability (putting aside the current ME issues) is pretty powerful.

RE other partners, they already hold back seats for their own, so possibly not a huge thing.

I’m torn wishing it was linked to FF login and status because there’s a lot of QF premium seats that currently still aren’t obvious!