RTW Flight Upgrades - Pro's & Cons

[Robstar]

Hi All,

Just wanted to get AFF member's feedback on the following options that my wife and I are considering.
We plan to purchase 2 x RTW fares from Bestflights for a 12 week holiday end June/ start July next year.

There are two current fares we are interested in through Swissair and Finnair - economy RTW comes to $2200 & $2400 respectively. Fly from SYD to Asia/ North America with either QF/ CX and then onto Europe with Swiss/ Finnair. Does anyone know any other good deals for mid next year?

I'm a Silver QC and will have roughly 250K QF points, would like to upgrade on QF segments to J class from Y, will these above fares allow it?

Looking at SYD -LAX with QF - upgrade to J around 24/6/13
Coming back home with QF/ CX through HKG or BKK in J in mid September

With the new QF/EK Alliance, will QF still be flying from BKK/HKG in Sept next year?

Thanks for any insights in advance.

 

[serfty]

Hi All,

Just wanted to get AFF member's feedback on the following options that my wife and I are considering.
We plan to purchase 2 x RTW fares from Bestflights for a 12 week holiday end June/ start July next year.

There are two current fares we are interested in through Swissair and Finnair - economy RTW comes to $2200 & $2400 respectively. Fly from SYD to Asia/ North America with either QF/ CX and then onto Europe with Swiss/ Finnair. Does anyone know any other good deals for mid next year?

I'm a Silver QC and will have roughly 250K QF points, would like to upgrade on QF segments to J class from Y, will these above fares allow it?

Looking at SYD -LAX with QF - upgrade to J around 24/6/13
Coming back home with QF/ CX through HKG or BKK in J in mid September

With the new QF/EK Alliance, will QF still be flying from BKK/HKG in Sept next year?

Thanks for any insights in advance.

To even begin to be considered for an upgrade with QFF points you generally need at least three variables satisfied:

QF Flight number
QF Metal
NOT any of Q, O, N, E or X class (fare bucket)

What fare bucket does this ATW fare book into?

 

[moa999]

It all depends on the booking class - I suspect you will need to ask BestFlights this.
You can only upgrade "some" Discount Economy fares on Qantas.
You do not want E, N, O, Q and X class - these are not upgradeable (apart from when Qantas occasionally run specials)

Note also that with Qantas you can't guarantee an International Upgrade. You effectively waitlist it and find out within 24hrs of flights (can be as short as 6hrs).

As the EK Alliance has still not been approved, we are yet to see all of Qantas's Asian plans.
IMHO SIN and HKG will definitely stay.
May be some KUL flights on EK metal and maybe QF.
I would have some doubts about BKK but I might be wrong.

 

[ozmille]

Usually OW RTW tickets book into L class but best to ask Bestflights to be sure before booking