Rewards availability SYD - JNB?

[smckay]

Folks

I'm planning a jaunt to South Africa next May(ish) and currently there are nil rewards flights SYD-JNB.
Historically, is this a route with a decent amount of seats available? I'd prefer Y+ or J on a reward as Y flights currently run $2,00 return and I'd prolly just pay that.
If it makes any difference, all going well I will be WP in 2 months so could try requesting seats. Although WP just seems to be Bronze with a different card colour from recent chat and that may just be a long phone wait for no return.

 

[craven morehead]

Have you looked at routing through the new PER-JNB flights QF65/66.

 

[smckay]

Have you looked at routing through the new PER-JNB flights QF65/66.

Alan is still saying NO. Looks like only via Europe/Middle East is only option at present

 

[levelnine]

all going well I will be WP in 2 months so could try requesting seats.

That's about the only way to get QF J seats on the premium long haul routes these days. You very, very rarely see general release of seats on flights to JNB, LAX, LHR, DFW etc.

 

[Mattg]

Have you looked at routing through the new PER-JNB flights QF65/66.

There's zero Qantas award availability on that route as well

 

[smckay]

And then to the next step - any WP have any luck crowbarring 2 x J seats on a return flight out of QF, post Covid?

 

[sanne]

I was looking for 2 x J seats to JNB return some weeks ago for late May, return mid June. My dates are fixed as we already are locked in to a safari.

Only via Perth was available but I couldn’t make that work with only 3x weekly schedule to and from Perth. So they were there, just not the 63/64… we’re LTS.

This is the first time in 10+ years of going to JNB every year in J, that we have had to buy the tickets… we have always found awards SYD/ JNB / SYD. Never had a problem as long as I jumped on them as soon as they were released. Not this year.

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

I watch this route like a hawk as half our family is there. My partner had to book a trip back there later this month for personal stuff, and even in Y it was over $3,000 return / $1,800 one-way when booking 6 weeks out.

I set up an Expert Flyer alert and two days after we booked (after no availability for months -- Murphy's Law), some space opened up in J on the SYD-JNB sector across a number of days in late August and beginning September. We snagged that up within two hours of the alert coming through and changed the original one-way ticket into a return trip at a more reasonable price in PY for something next year.

There had been J availability on at least 8-10 days when I booked that morning (and none of which existed the night before). By the afternoon, it was all gone.

 

[craven morehead]

J return cash fare up $2500 on last trip in 2019 luckily it's been booked on a DSC voucher.

 

[N860CR]

Sorry to bump an old thread. I’m flying this route pretty regularly at the moment. Have been booking Y awards (which are easy to find) and find that if you keep checking, Y+ and J do pop up at random intervals. Haven’t had to fly Y yet

 

[SYD]

Sorry to bump an old thread. I’m flying this route pretty regularly at the moment. Have been booking Y awards (which are easy to find) and find that if you keep checking, Y+ and J do pop up at random intervals. Haven’t had to fly Y yet

I noticed yesterday there were some completely random days with 2x J awards SYD-JNB this side of Christmas!