The Qantas Newbie Questions Thread

[offshore171]

Are you open to making a paid staging flight to Asia and then using award J seats from there onwards?

This can be very effective.

 

[Mwenenzi]

I'm new to this Qantas Business rewards and points. I've got 800K points and I want to take my family to Europe from ADL. Am flexible with dates from 1 Dec to 15 Jan. Flexi with which European city we fly into. I'm so overwhelmed and am not sure the best way to go about this. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.

travellingmum Welcome to AFF

By Qantas Business rewards do you mean business class seats to EU?
Or the Qantas Business rewards scheme, where your business can get QF points as well as the passenger getting QF points

https://www.qantas.com/au/en/business-rewards/

As above how many people and class of travel?
Are you able/can you split into 2 parties? Can they travel on different days/different route
Assume by "family to Europe" you mean out and back (return)

For business class general opinion is get to Asia by cash or separate tickets. Then business class awards Asia to EU and EU to Asia/AU.
2 separate one ways can be easier than a return. No need to have the same EU destination from AU/Asia and origin back to AU/Asia

Are many options.

 

[TheDefenestrator]

Got another QF3/4 question...

• Mate is flying on QF3 SYD-AKL-JFK and QF4 JFK-AKL-SYD on the same ticket/PNR
• Mate has complimentary lounge invitations they want to use at AKL after the QF4 JFK-AKL leg
• Mate is QF Bronze/no status
• Unable to link, gets "Not available" error
• Travelling in March, doesn't seem to be a peak travel period
• Understand that can't use lounge passes at SYD due to the renovations and neither at JFK as no QF lounge

Is there a way to link the lounge pass just for the AKL-SYD leg?

 

[RealtimeY]

A question about ORC:

Original booking was AKL-MEL-OOL, but then because of schedule changes on the second leg, I got my TA to reroute me for free via SYD instead for better timings. Can I still claim ORC after flying this?

 

[NM]

A question about ORC:

Original booking was AKL-MEL-OOL, but then because of schedule changes on the second leg, I got my TA to reroute me for free via SYD instead for better timings. Can I still claim ORC after flying this?

ORC is only for involuntary changes. If you requested the change (or your TA requested it on your behalf) then it is voluntary and not involuntary and hence ORC is not valid for your scenario.