QF Domestic Australian Award with AS Miles?
January 9th, 2009I would like to use my AS miles for an inner Australian award flight with QF. I am a little confused about what I found on the Alaskaair website concerning award flights within Australia/NZ (QFKADD in Y): "One inter-Australian city add-on in coach, per person". Does that mean I can only get the domestic award in conjunction with an international award ticket from the US to Australia/NZ? An email enquiry to AS concerning this matter was not answered.
Thanks very much in advance for your help!
I don't believe that you can credit domestic QF to AS Mileage Plan.
Don't scare me like that! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/eek.gif
I phoned MP Customer Service to clarify this. The agent said that AS gives credit for transpacific flights and internal Australia flights on Qantas metal. Hence, the ones that wouldn't get credit would be London-Bangkok, Sydney-Singapore, etc. She was citing an internal document, not the MP guide.
I just completed PDX-LAX-SYD-CNS-MEL-LAX-PDX. The AS flights and the QF LAX-SYD outbound have posted already. I'll let you know if SYD-CNS and CNS-MEL post later.
Thanks very much, guys. Since I'm already in OZ, I guess I'll just end up collecting a few miles for my domestic flights here. A 10k award would have been to good to be true.
I don't believe that you can credit domestic QF to AS Mileage Plan. You can put them into AAdvantage though. This is what I was told when my credits did not post - QF took the number and all but AS refused to post, something about transpacific flights only.
"Miles can be earned for flights operated by Qantas between North America and specific cities in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji."
In many ways, I like AS, but this is one area where they are woeful. Vague wording is one thing, but the whole half-hearted way they do the international thing is just pathetic. They sort of acknowledge that the rest of the world exists and that some of their customers might want to fly there, but they do it in such a way as to make the use of their partnerships expensive (80k vs. UA USA-Oz being 60k) and stressful. As I mentioned recently, they also have customer service surveys at times for which non-US/Canada residents aren't eligible.
It would be simpler if they'd treat overseas customers, awards and partnerships decently or just not bother at all.
I don't believe that you can credit domestic QF to AS Mileage Plan. You can put them into AAdvantage though. This is what I was told when my credits did not post - QF took the number and all but AS refused to post, something about transpacific flights only.
From the AS Mileage Plan guide (http://mileageplan.alaskaair.com/images/MemberGuide.pdf):
"Miles can be earned for flights operated by Qantas between North America and specific cities in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji."
Mike
From the AS Mileage Plan guide (http://mileageplan.alaskaair.com/images/MemberGuide.pdf):
"Miles can be earned for flights operated by Qantas between North America and specific cities in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji."
Mike
I'll stick with my statement. The above quote supports it in the sense that you need a NA to OZ ticket. Seperately ticketed QF flights would not qualify. I was told by Mileage Plan that their system has the specific flights recorded for which credit will post. I hope you get the miles but I wouldn't bet the house on it IF the internal flights were not on the trans-pac ticket.
For internal Australia flights, compare the oneworld Visit Australia awards, Qantas Boomerang Pass, or the Qantas website deals.
I'll stick with my statement. The above quote supports it in the sense that you need a NA to OZ ticket. Seperately ticketed QF flights would not qualify. I was told by Mileage Plan that their system has the specific flights recorded for which credit will post. I hope you get the miles but I wouldn't bet the house on it IF the internal flights were not on the trans-pac ticket.
To keep you updated: The miles for my Australian domestic flights just got posted (after about a month). Even for my cheap "Red E-Deals" tickets. I was actually pretty surprised to see the increased mileage on my AS account, because of the opinions expressed here. Anyway, better a late 100% of the mileage at AS than and early 70% at AA.
I just completed PDX-LAX-SYD-CNS-MEL-LAX-PDX. The AS flights and the QF LAX-SYD outbound have posted already. I'll let you know if SYD-CNS and CNS-MEL post later.
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Same as Yogi. The remainder of my Qantas flights have posted to my MP account about one month later, including the internal ones.
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