Qantas redemption points calculation on combined flight

[Haplo]

I had an interesting situation coming up when I was redeem Qantas points for flights yesterday.

Scenario: I tried to get a pair of business class ticket released from PVG to SYD at the end of April and the Qantas computer kept on saying no. I finally got a pair of HKG - SYD seats released and I then asked the agent to add in KA flights from PVG to HKG and it was booked as a PVG-xHKG-SYD ticket. (for background information the way there is a direct flight so no problem on the pricing).

Now this is the interest part. The way the computer priced this is that HKG - SYD was priced at 60k each per theQantas table, and the PVG - HKG on KA costed 26k per the partner table, so all up it costed 86k. However, this combination is also available as a standard redemption option for PVG-SYD on the partner table for 78k on the days where there are seats available.

Does anyone know if the computer is calculating the redemption correctly in this case? What is your opinion on what is the correct wayof calculating this.

 

[sjk]

However, this combination is also available as a standard redemption option for PVG-SYD on the partner table for 78k on the days where there are seats available.

By this do you mean that you can get it for 78k if it's just KA and CX? If so, then that makes sense. It costs more when you switch between charts.

 

[jetpack]

I did a dummy booking on a KA/QF combination and it is quoting me 86k points. The KA/CX combination is 78k.

 

[madrooster]

86k is correct. Essentially you are doing a QF award + a partner award. If you want the cheaper rate you need to CX/KA only.

 

[TomVexille]

As the others said, it ends up being 2x one ways as the computer cannot combine the different award charts. Silly as they should just charge you according to the partner table IMO

 

[Haplo]

I always thought if a flight contains both a Qantas and a partner flight it is charged as if the entire flight is partner flight. But it seems that I am wrong.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I always thought if a flight contains both a Qantas and a partner flight it is charged as if the entire flight is partner flight. But it seems that I am wrong.

Qantas introduced changes a few years ago. Only airlines on the same award table can be combined. If you swap between airlines in different tables they start charging by sector. Even worse if you only use OW airlines and don't involve QF, then they use the oneworld table.