At the moment I get the majority of points from my Credit Card spend and the odd business class trip to Asia, Europe or the US (probably only once every 18 months).
I was looking at getting a QANTAS CC and aligning myself QANTAS, I like flying with them, and it would be kinda nice to not have to do the 'do you take amex' dance anymore.
I went onto the QANTAS website and punched in some dates in August and September next year to see what the reward flight situation in business was - it was abysmal. The dates I punched in had no availability with QANTAS at all. I tried about 4 different dates and the closet was QANTAS to HK and then Cathay to London....on the way back the options were bad.
Went onto Singapore air, bam - flights to London and back with Singapore - first go, no issues. 232k points.....If I did find a flight with QANTAS it would have cost 50k more points!
Other than just having a rant, I want to know if is this pretty typical? It seems like it would be POINTLESS to align with QANTAS for reward flights if the redemption rates are awful. I'm never going to be platinum (sometimes I get gold) so any preferential reward flights are simply not going to happen.
I was looking at getting a QANTAS CC and aligning myself QANTAS, I like flying with them, and it would be kinda nice to not have to do the 'do you take amex' dance anymore.
I went onto the QANTAS website and punched in some dates in August and September next year to see what the reward flight situation in business was - it was abysmal. The dates I punched in had no availability with QANTAS at all. I tried about 4 different dates and the closet was QANTAS to HK and then Cathay to London....on the way back the options were bad.
Went onto Singapore air, bam - flights to London and back with Singapore - first go, no issues. 232k points.....If I did find a flight with QANTAS it would have cost 50k more points!
Other than just having a rant, I want to know if is this pretty typical? It seems like it would be POINTLESS to align with QANTAS for reward flights if the redemption rates are awful. I'm never going to be platinum (sometimes I get gold) so any preferential reward flights are simply not going to happen.