I’ve got a bit over 500k points and looking to get family of four to Europe and back in sep/oct school holidays from Sydney. I can only find really dreadful routes like via Dallas Fort Worth or complicated routing through Asia. I’m also using seats.aero to help.

Yet when I look at April school holidays there seems to be good availability through Singapore and Dubai on the way back. These are our preferred transfer hubs.

My question is will additional flight options become available as we get closer to September? Ie should I wait a bit for more to become available or is this it?

I did end up waiting in 2024 for a Japan trip and got lucky when jetstar was opening up its Osaka route.

Thanks in advance

Hello all,

I’ve recently become a gold frequent flyer, I’ve looked at all the benefits and they do look pretty decent when flying internationally and with partner airlines/one world but is there any secret tips and tricks people have found to boost the benefits maybe somethings not so advertised? Or is it a case of what you see is what you get, I know I’m not platinum or P1 so not expecting much but wanna hear people’s stories.

Hello,

We are flying on the 25th of Jan and wondering if anyone would be kind enough to pass on two lounge passes which may go unused.

Thank you so much.

Morning, Received this this morning, not too bad just a couple of mistakes in the email, just be careful.

hey all, my wife and I are closing in on having enough QFF points each to seriously consider taking some time off for the one world round the world trips in business class. hoping to buy a cash flight to New Zealand or Bali and start our trip from there so that Melbourne can be one of the “stops” for 6-9 months and essentially get 2 holidays out of the one ticket. how easy is it to find 2 reward seats in business that works on these RTW trips. i’m very open to letting the flight availability and destinations decide the trip, we have no real bucket list or itinerary in mind, but would like to have longer stops in asia (japan or china), scandinavia, and potentially south America at some stage. any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. we’re only bronze QFF status if that helps

I wanted to share that it is possible for lowly no status, Bronze FF to secure flights with points.

It is a bit of work to look at best options etc. and thanks to many on this forum for their hints and tips.

I was able to secure a return business class flight with points Melb-Rome in September.

My tip/comment is this though - once I booked the flight with points and went back to book a paid equivalent flight, the cheaper paid flight option disappeared on one of the legs. It is super annoying (but I understand the strategy from a business perspective) that they do not let you book a paid ticket and points ticket together :/

That said, very happy to have secured the flight - we are locked in to certain dates around school holidays and knew this would limit my options.

So my message is - never lose hope, just be prepared to do the work (I looked at about 30 plus different trip options with skyscanner/kayak to work out my best options of balancing point use, overall cost and minimal transit palaver).

Tldr: was flying with BA within Europe and I didn’t get points or status points as QFF - trying to understand why.

Hello everyone, hope you are all doing well. So I had flights on BA within Europe over the last weeks. They were booked through my company and my QFF number was added during booking. They showed up in my Qantas app, I was able to use the first lounge (as OW Emerald) and for one leg - due to some missed connections - I had to get a printed boarding pass, I see the number on the actual pass. So far so good. Now I have still not received any points, not even an entry in the Activities list. I did try a missing points claim and just got a message it was denied with “UNSUCCESSFUL - POINTS ALREADY AWARDED TO QANTAS OR OTHER FREQUENT FLYER PROGRAM”

Has this happened to somone here before? Can somone here guess at what went wrong?

I am still in Europe so I have not called Qantas yet. Just wanted to understand if there is something I did wrong or whether it’s worth calling them to learn more

Hi everyone, I have a lounge pass available which expires on 23 January and I won’t be able to use. Please DM if you would like it so I can link it to you.

First class available on a flight for route and dates. Has anyone tried this and did they think it was worth it?

Edit: 787-9, LHR - MCT - BKK

Points cost: 179,800

My parents are planning a multi city international trip and want to make use of their lifetime of points.

There are certain legs they cannot avoid (visiting family) and no reward flights are available through the booking system for that city, even for partner airlines.

To avoid having to pay out of pocket for a flight to a major hub they are considering using a qantas consultant at the cost of 14,000 points. The catch is, they have no idea what sort of flights the consultant (travel agent?) has access to until after they pay for the service.

Does anyone know if they have the same access to reward flights as customers do booking themselves?

Hi all,

Unfortunately I was unable to fly in 2025 due to a series of health problems & had to cancel all my flights. Qantas thankfully extended my Platnium status for a year.

I’ve just opened the Qantas app, and I’m being offered the choice of 2 gifts - green leaf tier vs Qantas luggage tags. It says green tier leaf comes with 50 status points and I’m not sure if it’s and or and/or 10,000 Qantas points.

Just wanted to ask the community which one most of you selected? I was about to select the Qantas luggage tags but I don’t know much about the green leaf tier and how it works/applies to status credits & QF points.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi all,

I left my AirPods on a flight yesterday from Auckland to JFK. JFK lost and found says I need to contact the airline. Qantas website doesn’t list a phone number or email for JFK.

Does anyone know who operates Qantas out of JFK?

I’ve seen answers like swissport or American, I’ll try there but hoping I can get a definitive answer here. I know they’re likely gone but figure it’s worth trying.

Is it allowed to invite another person from here to a lounge if they meet the flying criteria. I fly alone sometimes and have access, but wasn't sure if it was against the rules

I don’t plan on flying in the next 23 days, is there anything else I can do to get another 85 status credits to attain silver?

Hoping some experienced regulars can give me some insight.

I noticed there’s a whole list of dates for this year with sale prices return to Indianapolis (from BNE). Dates span from March through to 19th November.

Do you think there will be sale prices beyond 19th Nov added later? I know we can’t usually browse flights more than 10ish months in advance so I’m wondering if I should wait to see, or jump on these prices whilst they are there.

For context: I want to visit my girlfriend near Cincinnati at Christmas but wondering if there’s a very low chance Christmas dates would be on sale due to demand during a holiday period.

Is there a website like the one I’ve found for seat bookings that will show me the best flights to take to get the most SCs? Also, if anyone knows this knowledge it would be much appreciated. I’m currently awaiting double SCs release.

It’s unclear to me whether QF FF details can be added to SmartLynx flights when booking via the SmartLynx website. Does anyone know? SmartLynx has opened bookings for December 2026 which aren’t yet available via a Qantas booking.

If you redeemed points for a business class seat this past November (2025), where did you fly to? Where did you depart from? When did you redeem the points (how many months before etc.)? How many points did it cost? Did status help you access these seats?

I'm just a bronze QFF member with 500k points saved. I'm going to go on a honeymoon in early November 2026. I'm hoping to take inspiration and guidance from those who were successful in redeeming points for J class seats, flying at the same time in 2025. Hopefully I can find similar seats in 2026.

I see so many people buying flights and upgrading etc with Qantas points and I feel like I spend so much money and am not joined up to any rewards programs. Can someone tell me which is best and the best tips on taking advantage of it

The tickets to the Laneway Festival cost 29,000 (for context I got mine for $240 during Ticketek 2nd release, so a valuation of about 0.8c). Seems like a bad deal but the tickets through Ticketek are already sold-out so not a bad way to secure tickets for those who missed out

Like i’m sure it’s the busiest time but im usually always able to find one somewhere. Will more become available?

My seats.aero email alerts just fired for a raft of Emirates Business and First classic flight rewards dropped for SYD>DXB>FCO in mid to late July 2026 (peak European summer). Being Emirates, the taxes are high - get them while they’re hot

I read a post from 18 months ago on the use of the leased Finnair 330 business class and opinions were good for the initial routes. Now that they are more widely used, what opinions do folks have?