QF "U" awards not showing on EF...

[amaroo]

EF search result SYD-JNB July 17 .... there is no availability for the month of July 17



QFF search result for 4 x business awards .... same destination and date.




FWIW I get the same result searching SYD-SCL.

 

[serfty]

You may be observing expanded availability for WP on Qantas.com ...

 

[serfty]

I see x (Economy) on six of those dates:

Results from ExpertFlyer.com

Flight Availability Search
Departing SYD on 12/07/17 12:00 AM ± 3 Day(s) for JNB
Flying QF   on booking class U Z X      


                                                                     Frequency
Flight        Stops  Depart             Arrive             Aircraft  Reliability     Available Classes
0 Connections
QF 63         0      SYD                JNB                744       Unavailable     X9 
                     09/07/17 10:50 AM  09/07/17 5:10 PM             50% / 43m

Results from ExpertFlyer.com

Flight Availability Search
Departing SYD on 12/07/17 12:00 AM ± 3 Day(s) for JNB
Flying QF   on booking class U Z X      


                                                                     Frequency
Flight        Stops  Depart             Arrive             Aircraft  Reliability     Available Classes

 

[amaroo]

You may be observing expanded availability for WP on Qantas.com ...

This is the availability under the MIL (Bronze QFF) log-in. Search is the same i.e. 4 x J awards.




I've had a play around with some random dates/destination on EF and can't see P/U/Z availability for OS port, can still see a heap for X. Availability for domestic U is still showing.

 

[ExpertFlyer Voice]

Hi folks. So QF changed things on their reservation system over the weekend which partial broke the award search. We are now using a different source for QF award inventory and all the award data now shows again.

One change is that instead of showing a number for the award class inventory, you must now specify a Quantity in the search for how many award tickets you are looking for, and the results page will then display a Yes or No to indicate if that quantity of award class is available on that flight. Flight Alerts will continue to work as usual as they are already based on a quantity.

 

[Mattg]

Hi folks. So QF changed things on their reservation system over the weekend which partial broke the award search. We are now using a different source for QF award inventory and all the award data now shows again.

One change is that instead of showing a number for the award class inventory, you must now specify a Quantity in the search for how many award tickets you are looking for, and the results page will then display a Yes or No to indicate if that quantity of award class is available on that flight. Flight Alerts will continue to work as usual as they are already based on a quantity.

Thanks for the update.

One of the things I liked about Expert Flyer was that it showed the exact number of available QF awards. This new system seems more coughbersome and time-consuming.

Nonetheless, the most important thing is that the information is accurate. So I can understand why you changed the data source.

 

[JohnPhelan]

Hi folks. So QF changed things on their reservation system over the weekend which partial broke the award search. We are now using a different source for QF award inventory and all the award data now shows again.

One change is that instead of showing a number for the award class inventory, you must now specify a Quantity in the search for how many award tickets you are looking for, and the results page will then display a Yes or No to indicate if that quantity of award class is available on that flight. Flight Alerts will continue to work as usual as they are already based on a quantity.

So does this mean that, whereas the old general availability would show, for example "J5, C5, D4, I4, U1", that U class won't show up now? Instead, you have to do a specific search for U class availability with the number of seats you are looking for?

 

[ExpertFlyer Voice]

So does this mean that, whereas the old general availability would show, for example "J5, C5, D4, I4, U1", that U class won't show up now? Instead, you have to do a specific search for U class availability with the number of seats you are looking for?

Correct, although non-award classes (C,J,D,I etc) can still be added to the Award search under the "Other Classes" fields and they will still show with numeric values. It's just the 4 award classes that are now Yes/No because they were removed from the general availability results.

Results from ExpertFlyer.com

[B]Flight Availability Search[/B]
Departing SYD on 07/07/17 12:00 AM for JNB
Flying QF  


                                                                     Frequency
Flight        Stops  Depart             Arrive             Aircraft  Reliability     Available Classes
0 Connections
QF 63         0      SYD                JNB                744       Unavailable     J9 C9 D9 I9 W9 R9 T7 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N9 Q9 O9 G0 X9 
                     07/07/17 10:50 AM  07/07/17 5:10 PM             59% / 42m

Results from ExpertFlyer.com

[B]Awards & Upgrades Search[/B]
Departing SYD on 07/07/17 12:00 AM for JNB
Flying QF   on booking class P U Z X C D I  
Direct/Non-Stop Only
Quantity: 1


                                                                     Frequency                                                    
Flight        Stops  Depart             Arrive             Aircraft  Reliability     Class Description                      Code  Seats
0 Connections
QF 63         0      SYD                JNB                744       Unavailable     First - Award & Upgrade                P     N
                     07/07/17 10:50 AM  07/07/17 5:10 PM             59% / 42m       BUSINESS                               C     9
                                                                                     BUSINESS                               D     9
                                                                                     Business - Award & Upgrade             U     Y
                                                                                     Premium Economy - Award & Upgrade      Z     N
                                                                                     Economy - Award                        X     Y
                                                                                     DISCOUNT BUSINESS                      I     9

 

[esseeeayeenn]

Another QF enhancement to make things simpler and fairer.
Thanks for adapting so quickly ExpertFlyer Voice.

 

[kpc]

Hi folks. So QF changed things on their reservation system over the weekend which partial broke the award search. We are now using a different source for QF award inventory and all the award data now shows again.

One change is that instead of showing a number for the award class inventory, you must now specify a Quantity in the search for how many award tickets you are looking for, and the results page will then display a Yes or No to indicate if that quantity of award class is available on that flight. Flight Alerts will continue to work as usual as they are already based on a quantity.

Just curious as to whether you think QF made this change deliberately to make it harder for us to find award seats? Quick Q: I already have an alert to find 1x U availability on a QF flight Syd-Lhr...do I need to do anything to this alert (but I think not based on your post)?

 

[ExpertFlyer Voice]

Just curious as to whether you think QF made this change deliberately to make it harder for us to find award seats? Quick Q: I already have an alert to find 1x U availability on a QF flight Syd-Lhr...do I need to do anything to this alert (but I think not based on your post)?

No, more like an incidental change that happened with other system changes, and No.