Singapore Airlines Releases First Saver Awards to Melbourne
Singapore Airlines First Class Saver award seats are now available to book using KrisFlyer miles between Melbourne and Singapore.
Award Availability
Award Availability is a popular topic at the Australian Frequent Flyer. The ongoing challenge is to find an award ticket on the flight you want and when you want it.
Use Qantas Points to Fly on Bangkok Airways
Qantas Frequent Flyer members can now redeem their points for Classic Flight Reward seats on Bangkok Airways, a boutique airline based in Thailand. The expansion of Qantas’ partnership with Bangkok Airways was first announced in 2019 but delayed due to COVID-19. It’s now finally a reality. Classic Flight Reward seats in Economy Class are available … Continued
Podcast #95: Qatar Airways Qsuites & Avios Subscriptions
With Qatar Airways now only giving Qantas frequent flyers access to Business & First Class reward seats around 4 months out from departure, it’s become a lot harder to redeem Qantas points for Qatar Airways Qsuites. You can still redeem Velocity points for Qatar Airways flights up to 330 days ahead. But Qatar Airways Privilege … Continued
15 Oct 2022
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Qantas Points Planes to Japan
Japan is reopening next week, and to celebrate, Qantas has released six weeks worth of Points Planes to Tokyo where every seat is now available to book as a Classic Flight Reward in Economy. All Business Class seats between Sydney and Tokyo on 10 May 2023 are also being made available to book as Classic Rewards … Continued
7 Oct 2022
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When Qatar Airways Releases Seats for Qantas Points Bookings
Update (28 September): It appears that Cathay members may also now be subject to the 119/249 day rule. Members of Qatar Airways Privilege Club and British Airways Executive Club can still redeem Avios for Qatar Airways flights up to 355 days in advance. Until recently, it was possible to redeem Qantas points for most Qatar … Continued
25 Sep 2022
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Podcast #93: The Amex-Marriott Bonvoy Transfer Trick
American Express Membership Rewards points are already one of the most useful and valuable points currencies in Australia. That’s because you have the option to transfer your points to nine different airline frequent flyer programs (plus Qantas Frequent Flyer, if you have an Amex Platinum or Centurion card). Amex points can also be converted to … Continued
17 Sep 2022
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Qatar Airways, Emirates Upgrade Perth Flights to A380s
Both Qatar Airways and Emirates will soon upgrade their daily Boeing 777 flights to Perth to Airbus A380s. This is good news on multiple levels. As well as more capacity in the market and an upgraded experience for travellers, Qatar Airways has just released a bunch of First Class award seats on the Doha-Perth route … Continued
Qatar Airways Rewards: Velocity Members Get Priority over Qantas
This week, Qatar Airways launched a new strategic partnership with Virgin Australia. But as a member of the Oneworld alliance, Qatar Airways already partners with Qantas – Australia’s other major airline. This creates a unique situation where members of both Virgin Australia Velocity and Qantas Frequent Flyer can earn points, earn status credits, redeem points … Continued
8 Sep 2022
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Podcast #92: The Singapore Airlines Round-the-World Award
Many Australian frequent flyers will be familiar with Qantas’ Oneworld Classic Flight Reward – the multi-city award that lets you fly up to 35,000 miles on Oneworld airlines, with up to 5 stopovers, for a cost of 318,000 Qantas points + taxes in Business Class. Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer also offers its own version of this award … Continued
3 Sep 2022
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Redeem Points on Qantas’ New Samoa & Tonga Flights
Qantas recently launched weekly flights from Sydney to Tonga and Samoa, with the latter service operating via Brisbane. Seats to Tonga start from $866 return, while Sydney-Apia fares start from $966 return in Economy Class. Fares in Business are obviously a lot more expensive. But if you have Qantas points to spend, there’s currently good … Continued
Qantas Reward Seat Release Fail
On Sunday, Qantas issued an apology to frequent flyers for the airline’s recent operational issues and offered a range of gifts as a peace offering. One of the promises made was that Qantas would release more Classic Flight Reward seats, with the first tranche of additional award availability to be released from 12pm today. On … Continued
22 Aug 2022
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Qantas Status Extensions & Gifts Offered as Apology
Qantas will offer flight discounts, more Classic Reward availability and other bonus benefits to its frequent flyers in an attempt to apologise for the “recent operational challenges” that have seen many flights delayed or cancelled and bags go missing. All Qantas Frequent Flyer members will also receive a further 12-month status extension. Qantas says it … Continued
21 Aug 2022
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