QF Segments from London

[JLim]

Hi all, I found a thread asking a similar question back in 2011 but it's closed and I'm wondering if anyone has any more recent advice.
I'm based in London and thanks to a few work trips I find myself poised on the edge of QF Gold Status. The only problem is I'm 3 QF Flight Segments short of attaining it.
Does anyone have any experience or advice as to what the cheapest and most efficient way would be to achieve this out of London?

 

[opusman]

Out of London your only real option is to fly to Australia and back. Probably not worth it for Gold.

 

[JLim]

This saddens me
In hindsight I probably should have switched over to Avios when I came over then.

 

[defurax]

A cheaper way would be to fly to SIN, MNL or HKG from LHR and take three 3K flights from there.

AB is having a flash sale only this afternoon from 1PM to 6PM, DUS or TXL to CGK 199 Euros one-way, from CGK you could do 3K to SIN-HKG-SIN-CGK. (https://www.airberlin.com/de-DE/sit...ent=tb_link&utm_campaign=tb_ss_nd_u_20160313#)

 

[Himeno]

Out of London your only real option is to fly to Australia and back. Probably not worth it for Gold.

Not quite. Get QF to DXB, then an EK op QF codeshare somewhere. There are still a small number of QF codeshares on BA flights. You could book at QF-EK-BA ticket with QF codes.
Otherwise, you have to get to at least south east asia. You could go LHR-TYO via DXB and SIN and get 3 QF coded flights.

 

[JLim]

Not quite. Get QF to DXB, then an EK op QF codeshare somewhere. There are still a small number of QF codeshares on BA flights. You could book at QF-EK-BA ticket with QF codes.
Otherwise, you have to get to at least south east asia. You could go LHR-TYO via DXB and SIN and get 3 QF coded flights.

Thanks Himeno. The DXB route is what I've been looking into. Struggling to find any eligible codeshares out of DXB that don't go all the way back to AU/NZ or return to LHR. Any tips there?

At this point, I'm thinking my best option may be to just do two return flights to DXB. Not the cheapest at about £380-480 each return journey but achievable in two weekends I guess. Feels kind of crazy but I've amassed a fair few SCs and I don't want to waste the opp haha. :shock:

 

[TheRealTMA]

Hi all, I found a thread asking a similar question back in 2011 but it's closed and I'm wondering if anyone has any more recent advice.
I'm based in London and thanks to a few work trips I find myself poised on the edge of QF Gold Status. The only problem is I'm 3 QF Flight Segments short of attaining it.
Does anyone have any experience or advice as to what the cheapest and most efficient way would be to achieve this out of London?

All you need is 3 QF code shares ( and the SCs) so you could do that on EK or even on say FinAir or others. Most destinations would be to Australia or Asia I'd believe, although the FinAir flight e did some years ago HEL - NYC was QF code share but part of an out of Oz fare on FinAir. BA do have QF code shares LHR to Europe but no idea how or if you could book these from London.

 

[Mattg]

You could get get the 3 ~ on a single trip to Dubai from the UK. Qantas operates flights between LHR and DXB using its own aircraft. You can currently get a return sale ticket from London for GBP373. Then, just add a QF codeshare flight operated by BA into London for the third ~.

Qantas has a code on BA flights into LHR from Aberdeen, Basel, Berlin, Budapest, Edinburgh, Leeds, Toulouse and Zagreb. Of those, I was only able to create an itinerary on the Qantas website ex Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Leeds.

Using the multi-city booking tool on the QF website, I was able to get LBA-LHR-DXB-LHR and EDI-LHR-DXB-LHR for GBP373 each. ABZ-LHR-DXB-LHR was possible for GBP400 all up. Just make sure you choose the QF code for the BA flights - it defaults to the BA code.

 

[JLim]

You could get get the 3 ~ on a single trip to Dubai from the UK. Qantas operates flights between LHR and DXB using its own aircraft. You can currently get a return sale ticket from London for GBP373. Then, just add a QF codeshare flight operated by BA into London for the third ~.

Qantas has a code on BA flights into LHR from Aberdeen, Basel, Berlin, Budapest, Edinburgh, Leeds, Toulouse and Zagreb. Of those, I was only able to create an itinerary on the Qantas website ex Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Leeds.

Using the multi-city booking tool on the QF website, I was able to get LBA-LHR-DXB-LHR and EDI-LHR-DXB-LHR for GBP373 each. ABZ-LHR-DXB-LHR was possible for GBP400 all up. Just make sure you choose the QF code for the BA flights - it defaults to the BA code.

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Mattg you have made my morning. Thanks so much for this!

 

[JLim]

Mattg you have made my morning. Thanks so much for this!

Hey Mattg, (And everyone else who replied with suggestions.)
Just wanted to say thanks again for this. It happened and last night I got home to...

 

[maia200]

Oh wow, thats wonderful, congratulations on keeping your Gold...... and Matt those were great suggestions. I love it when people are interested and do some scouting on behalf of others.

 

[Mattg]

Glad it worked well for you