Split flights same business reward

[Mavo39]

Hi guys,

Is it possible to book a flight from Perth to Brisbane using FF on business rewards seat but the routing be PER-SYD then a day stopover then onwards to Brisbane?

 

[madrooster]

If you are overnighting in Sydney, it's a stopover and it would break the award into two.

 

[ChrisMars]

I have done an overnight stopover once on an award. I think the rule is that the stopover should less than 24h or something like that from memory.

Edit: This is incorrect, see the posts below

 

[muppet]

For the TL;DR version, see @madrooster 's reply .... for why see below.

An overnight will create a "stopover" for a domestic trip and create two separate award calculations. To keep it as a single award pricing the booking can only include "transfers" which are connecting flights that don't meet the stopover definition.

From the Qantas T&Cs:

14.4.1 The Qantas Points required for a Classic Flight Reward Itinerary will be calculated as a one way Trip or series of one way Trips and will be the sum of the Qantas Points required for each Trip in that Itinerary.

'Trip' means a series of one or more consecutive Flight Segments within an Itinerary:

(a) that does not include:
(i) a Stopover; or
(ii) a Flight Segment whose arrival city is the same as the departure city of any other Flight Segment in that series (in this instance the Trip will be broken at the farthest point from the departure city for that series);
(b) not exceeding the maximum permitted miles in the Qantas, Jetstar or Partner Classic Flight Reward tables as applicable (see qantas.com for the tables); and
(c) not broken by a change to or from any airline included in the Partner Classic Flight Reward table (see qantas.com for the table).

'Stopover' in relation to:
(a) an Australian domestic Itinerary, means a break of journey at an intermediate point when onward travel does not take place on the same calendar day; and
(b) for all other Itineraries, including those containing a domestic to international connecting flight, means when a passenger arrives at an intermediate point and is not scheduled to depart within 24 hours of arrival;

 

[Mattg]

I have done an overnight stopover once on an award. I think the rule is that the stopover should less than 24h or something like that from memory.

Was this a domestic or international itinerary?

My understanding is that this is possible for international, but not generally for Australian domestic (as explained above).

 

[ChrisMars]

Was this a domestic or international itinerary?

My understanding is that this is possible for international, but not generally for Australian domestic (as explained above).

Domestic. I did some checking, and the original booking was without overnight stop CBR -> BNE -> DRW. With border closures, the ticket got changed a few time to finally include this overnight stopover. My bad. Good to know the 24h is only for international connections.