Brilliant information! Thank you SO much for sharing - it will save me a huge amount of stress, and time!!!, particularly the case now with Qantas's new Classic Plus 'initiative'!!!!!! (yeah, right!) ... leaving almost no Classics to find, or using up all your valuable points on this new Classic Plus. Much appreciated :)
Next month I'm going back to austrailia and came to my religion country and going back, before going to singapore on three ways to get there we were sent in economy but confirmed business we discussed this with qantas by calling them on the phone so this might work thank you
Tried booking a qatar airways first class for Jan 2025 after checking it on British airways website and then called qantas as you said but they said its not available not sure what to do?
Hi Raymond, Great video but I've noticed that the search no longer provides you the same information with the number of tickets. Can you confirm this is the case with you?
Hi Raymond, I think Qantas may have taken down that (2) booking route you mentioned. It definitely worked the first time I tried it - i.e. showing all the class options on the larger calendar - but now it doesn't seem to be showing that same page; I can't seem to get there anymore. I wonder if you're still able to find it?? Love your posts, looking forward to watching all the different categories particularly Super. :)
Qantas recently revamped how reward flights are searched for... so I might need to make an updated video on this one. I have another superannuation video coming out hopefully in the near future :)
@@raymondla In the new video it would be great if you can also work out how to select for classic rewards instead of the ridiculous classic plus rewards. Thank you so much.
Awesome tips thank you, is there a way to do this with velocity? I certainly struggle to get business class to/ from USA, can find the odd premium economy seat at best.
Hey mate, I can look into potentially doing one, but as Velocity isn't a part of any airline alliance it might not be as good as Qantas in this example!
Hi Raymond! I tried the BA site and couldn't get any flights to show up - I don't know if it was properly showing all the partner airlines. Do you have any advice there? I also joined the Japan Airlines site but I need to wait 60 days before I can use it. I did, however, use your "multi-city" trick and it worked. I am going to Japan next year and used your advice to secure these flights with classic rewards. I'm currently gold QFF status. The "normal" method wasn't showing anything, so your advice has helped me greatly, and I greatly appreciate it. Thanks so much! Richard.
Tried the third method, found the business class reward seats on a Qatar flight from Brisbane to London via the British Airways site. I then called Qantas to book the classic rewards seats and the Qantas staff member could not see the same rewards seats that I could. Not sure if this was because I am only at Bronze level or not.
hey mate love the content! just a note the BA hack does not work anymore when booking in advance. You can only book qatar seats using Qantas points 30 days before departure
@@raymondla I followed your instructions which worked up until actually booking. I phoned Qantas but they would not book using my points. They said it was not a Classic Reward seat. It was British Airways seat (but it was with Qatar!). So how do we know if seats are available for qantas point purchase? Is this like @japtea situation? I don't think I can risk waiting that long to book!
The British Airways option of booking doesn’t always work. Flights available to other OneWorld members doesn’t necessarily mean they’re available to qantas for reward options in my experience
Fantastic tips, thanks Raymond! Managed to snag first class in BA from Sydney to Singapore for my partner and I travelling 1 day apart for a month long holiday! Was looking like was only going to be one of us in First, the other in economy. Will definately be using these tips for all future Qantas reward flights - legend
So, for method 3, would the available flight be reward points or normal points? for example, a rewards point can be 150k Qantas point, but using only Qantas points would be 2twice the reward points!
Hey Raymond, nice video! I noticed you used my footage without asking or giving credit. For future videos I would suggest reaching out first, I'm a nice person and don't mind but common courtesy still applies :)
Hey Immanuel big fan! Apologies for that I've updated the description of the video to give credit and will ensure to reach out if I ever plan to do so again in the future.
Hi Raymond, reading comments regarding difficulties with using BA site which seemed the best and only practical way to proceed with RTW process. However, are there any people like yourself that can book/help for a fee with the process?
Tried the axiom method by calling Qantas and they told me no flights were available despite them showing on BA's booking site. Do I have to tell them the specific flight number and carrier. Sorry it's not clear from your video who you call and what you ask for.
Idk how you got so many premium cabins from Melbourne to Amsterdam. I tried it in June 2024 and it just gave me an error code or one economy seat on a random day
Hi Raymond, I tried your trick of finding flights on BA and then calling Qantas.......doesn't work. After being on hold for 40 mins I was told that "just because you can see them on BA's site doesn't mean we can book them". Am I doing soemthing wrong? Did I just get the wrong support person?
Hi @@raymondla I didn't mention anything about Qatar seats. I went to the BA site, found BA flights (BA0015 to be exact), called Qantas and they had no visibility of the reward seats for that flight. Again, am i doing something wrong?
They announced today (23/10/23) extra seats. I’ve been looking for the last 6 weeks every possible routing - direct, vis Dubai, via Singapore, Hong Kong, the US, etc. I’m flying end of July ‘24. Finally today got myself in business class today to the UK for next year!
Can you give me any advice as we are planning to travel to Cairo next October 2024 in Business class I have 541,000 Qantas points and 388,00 Amex points our preference is with Emirates
QANTAS in 2023 is crap. Business class is old. Seats are bad. Food is rubbish. Qantas club is horrible. Dirty with poor food. I wouldn’t recommend this airline. Ever
On Qantas home page, under book, then flights, click "using our interactive map" actually shows all the rewards flights to everywhere on a map
This is great !
Doesn't seem to work?
Great tip mate thanks!
This only seems to show $, not reward seats/points?
One of the only videos that actually shows how to do it, everyone else talks essays about random shit haha
Thank you for this video!
Hey Raymond. Thanks for the info. If using the BA 'pro' option, do you have more info as to what you mean/have to do when you ring up QF?
Amazing mate, cheers for this!
Wondering if you could do a similar video for booking Reward Flights with Singapore airlines/ Emirates/ Etihad
Glad you found it useful mate, I'll consider that topic for a future video!
Thanks but QATAR reward seats are not available through Qantas....
Brilliant information! Thank you SO much for sharing - it will save me a huge amount of stress, and time!!!, particularly the case now with Qantas's new Classic Plus 'initiative'!!!!!! (yeah, right!) ... leaving almost no Classics to find, or using up all your valuable points on this new Classic Plus. Much appreciated :)
Glad it was helpful!
Great update thank you, have been acquiring via cards for ages now have built up some 1.5m but unsure how to maximise thanks heaps mate
Glad to help!
Next month I'm going back to austrailia and came to my religion country and going back, before going to singapore on three ways to get there we were sent in economy but confirmed business we discussed this with qantas by calling them on the phone so this might work thank you
Tried booking a qatar airways first class for Jan 2025 after checking it on British airways website and then called qantas as you said but they said its not available not sure what to do?
I just had this exact same problem - did you find a solution by any chance? 🙂
@@angeladawson1974 Same! tried a few times.. Raymond pls help!
Hi Raymond, Great video but I've noticed that the search no longer provides you the same information with the number of tickets. Can you confirm this is the case with you?
Raymond, these videos are the best!! thank you so much!!
Glad you like them!
Hi Raymond, I think Qantas may have taken down that (2) booking route you mentioned. It definitely worked the first time I tried it - i.e. showing all the class options on the larger calendar - but now it doesn't seem to be showing that same page; I can't seem to get there anymore. I wonder if you're still able to find it??
Love your posts, looking forward to watching all the different categories particularly Super. :)
Qantas recently revamped how reward flights are searched for... so I might need to make an updated video on this one. I have another superannuation video coming out hopefully in the near future :)
@@raymondla In the new video it would be great if you can also work out how to select for classic rewards instead of the ridiculous classic plus rewards. Thank you so much.
Qantas just needs to offer more premium cabin rewards flights 😅 … excellent tip re BA..
Haha that would be the best wouldn't it
How do you know how many reward points the seats are ?
I heard “gold freakin’ flyer” at first and got a good chuckle out of that.
Awesome tips thank you, is there a way to do this with velocity? I certainly struggle to get business class to/ from USA, can find the odd premium economy seat at best.
Hey mate, I can look into potentially doing one, but as Velocity isn't a part of any airline alliance it might not be as good as Qantas in this example!
What's the waiting time like for booking a reward seat through the QANTAS call centre?
that is so helpful! thanks mate!
Glad you found it useful mate!
Great informative video Raymond!
Hi Raymond! I tried the BA site and couldn't get any flights to show up - I don't know if it was properly showing all the partner airlines. Do you have any advice there? I also joined the Japan Airlines site but I need to wait 60 days before I can use it. I did, however, use your "multi-city" trick and it worked. I am going to Japan next year and used your advice to secure these flights with classic rewards. I'm currently gold QFF status. The "normal" method wasn't showing anything, so your advice has helped me greatly, and I greatly appreciate it. Thanks so much! Richard.
How do we know how many qantas points we need when we are looking from British airways site?
Wondering the same!
Hey mate I'm not 100% sure on the conversion but it should be around 180,000 qantas points for the business class flights I found in the video!
@Raymond La thanks mate! Love all your videos! 😊
Glad you like them mate!
I'm a new subscriber. Love your work!
Appreciate that feedback 🙂
Tried the third method, found the business class reward seats on a Qatar flight from Brisbane to London via the British Airways site. I then called Qantas to book the classic rewards seats and the Qantas staff member could not see the same rewards seats that I could. Not sure if this was because I am only at Bronze level or not.
Great video! Using the third method, is the amount of Avios points priced equivalent to Qantas points you’d expect to be charged ?
Cant find "using the interactive map" on the website.
Wondering if you could pay for bulkhead seats after booking an economy seat (off topic) with a partner airline using Classic Rewards?
thank you!!!
hey mate love the content! just a note the BA hack does not work anymore when booking in advance. You can only book qatar seats using Qantas points 30 days before departure
Thanks for that info, pinning it for awareness!
@@raymondla I followed your instructions which worked up until actually booking. I phoned Qantas but they would not book using my points. They said it was not a Classic Reward seat. It was British Airways seat (but it was with Qatar!). So how do we know if seats are available for qantas point purchase? Is this like @japtea situation? I don't think I can risk waiting that long to book!
The British Airways option of booking doesn’t always work. Flights available to other OneWorld members doesn’t necessarily mean they’re available to qantas for reward options in my experience
Fantastic tips, thanks Raymond! Managed to snag first class in BA from Sydney to Singapore for my partner and I travelling 1 day apart for a month long holiday! Was looking like was only going to be one of us in First, the other in economy. Will definately be using these tips for all future Qantas reward flights - legend
Nice work that first class trip will be awesome, enjoy your flight!
So, for method 3, would the available flight be reward points or normal points? for example, a rewards point can be 150k Qantas point, but using only Qantas points would be 2twice the reward points!
Hey Raymond, nice video! I noticed you used my footage without asking or giving credit. For future videos I would suggest reaching out first, I'm a nice person and don't mind but common courtesy still applies :)
Hey Immanuel big fan! Apologies for that I've updated the description of the video to give credit and will ensure to reach out if I ever plan to do so again in the future.
@@raymondla thanks, I appreciate that!
this is good but i don’t think that you can use the last method with emirates as BA is not an Emirates partner. Qatar is still good though.
Hi Raymond, reading comments regarding difficulties with using BA site which seemed the best and only practical way to proceed with RTW process. However, are there any people like yourself that can book/help for a fee with the process?
The British airways method is down, not sure if its permanent but doesnt work for me :(
any method to search for non-direct reward flights?
Tried the axiom method by calling Qantas and they told me no flights were available despite them showing on BA's booking site. Do I have to tell them the specific flight number and carrier. Sorry it's not clear from your video who you call and what you ask for.
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it mate
Idk how you got so many premium cabins from Melbourne to Amsterdam. I tried it in June 2024 and it just gave me an error code or one economy seat on a random day
Hi Raymond, I tried your trick of finding flights on BA and then calling Qantas.......doesn't work. After being on hold for 40 mins I was told that "just because you can see them on BA's site doesn't mean we can book them". Am I doing soemthing wrong? Did I just get the wrong support person?
Hey mate, unfortunately there were some changes and you can only book qatar seats using Qantas points 30 days before departure!
Hi @@raymondla I didn't mention anything about Qatar seats. I went to the BA site, found BA flights (BA0015 to be exact), called Qantas and they had no visibility of the reward seats for that flight. Again, am i doing something wrong?
They announced today (23/10/23) extra seats. I’ve been looking for the last 6 weeks every possible routing - direct, vis Dubai, via Singapore, Hong Kong, the US, etc. I’m flying end of July ‘24. Finally today got myself in business class today to the UK for next year!
That's awesome news, enjoy your business class flights!
Can you please include the link in the description to your annotation/the video you're referring to as well, can't see it on pc sometimes haha
Hey Tiff, happy to which video specifically are you referring to?
@@raymondla oh just this one and future ones ty:)
@@tiffanyk2743 no problem will do :)
Can you give me any advice as we are planning to travel to Cairo next October 2024 in Business class I have 541,000 Qantas points and 388,00 Amex points our preference is with Emirates
Hey mate, check out this video on another great tool to find business class flights ruclips.net/video/1dUVH5Lh3fA/видео.html
loved this ! hate qantas !! make life so hard !
Qantas app is giving rewards business class on jetstar😒
Can I use my avios points?
You'd have to directly book via Qatar to use your avios points
any hacks to get ponits on paying rent?
Hey mate, if you have a Citibank credit card you can use their Citi PayAll feature to pay your rent and get Citi reward points
open a bilt card..... bruuuh what????
Just ask Albo to help!
Can you help please Raymond? If this is in fact click bait it’s very hard to give you credibility with other videos, just saying!
This doesn’t work.
QANTAS in 2023 is crap. Business class is old. Seats are bad. Food is rubbish. Qantas club is horrible. Dirty with poor food. I wouldn’t recommend this airline. Ever