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Cheaper when you use AUD ~$103 ($26 off)
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imo, yes and yes. I tried a bunch of points searching tools and seats.aero was the most helpful for searching from Australia with QF and VA (plus others). I have a Pro subscription and highly rate it.
I would second this. Tried a couple others, gyoza etc, seats aero is the best.
I'll third this. Saved my arse on three flights now (two long haul SQ) that I wouldn't have found otherwise. Took me a few hours to find what I wanted but it does the trick .
yep, so much easier to search than either qantas or virgin sites. Alerts are a godsend too.
If you're booking for multiple people it's a bit hit and miss though, gyozaflights just added a feature for number of seats you're after.
Yeah very useful
Same, i originally got it to help with my multihop round the world trip, was close to useless for that.
It helps a little finding individual hops, but you have to put it all into multicity anyway and the general monthly view Qantas provides becomes almost as efficient
Even for single stopovers it falls short, ie MEL > MAN it wouldn't detect anything when I paid for it, but there was many flights MEL > Dubai and Dubai > MAN that matched up closely
If you're after Emirates first class seats…
Emirates first class seats has disappeared from Qantas website since the devaluation last week.
https://flighthacks.com.au/qantas-blocking-emirates-first-cl…
I think they reappeared today
Tried searching several routes, still no first class availability unfortunately.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/169KaWcGKH/
Saw this post from Gyoza, haven't tried looking myself.
No first class flights from Dubai to Europe since this change.. Syd to Dubai still available.
They didn't often have many that way I found, it was mainly the return flight I used points for first class
Often paid out of pocket for economy one way outbound, the points offerings sucked
I haven't looked recently since the changes
When is singapore airlines going to be working again?
You really don't need much of a tool for KF, their website is good mostly.
It might be better to pay in AUD, $10.39pm or 103.39 for the year.
Even with a Forex free card, this might be cheaper.
how does one pay in AUD ? I am only getting USD option
one of the single best US$100 spent.
Yeah that is what i use. $15 a month for when im looking for flights then cancel it. I dont think a yearly subscription is necessary unless you travel internationally often. For domestic, qantas/virgin own websites do the job.
Also made by an Aussie.
Second this, good alternative. I found it picked up multihop flights a lot better, where as seatsaero seems to focus on direct flights
Really good website
There's others if you wanted to explore
seats.aero
seatfinder.tech
flightseats.io
Gyozaflights
What do you like and dislike about each one?
how many points would you need to take advantage of this
How long is a piece of string? Ideally about 90k per person to fly business internationally.
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Are you paying all points for flights or booking economy and using points to upgrade to business? Ive got amex points and not sure tge best way to redeem. Sorry for the noobie question.
Best use is to book a business rewards seat from the get go and not upgrade.
Upgrade isn't guaranteed and you get lower value out of it.
I've never used these sites and always relied on checking myself via VA & Qantas. I have heaps of points, but find it difficult to get classic reward flights (particularly business) for 3 people. Would this be worthwhile to sign up to? I generally plan holidays at least 4-6 months ahead, but not sure if expanding to the Pro version will actually result in better finds for 3 seats to Japan for example or is it just difficult in general to get 3 seater classic reward flights on VA & QF? Appreciate the feedback if any.
12 months in advance and 3 is rare to find.
Sometimes seats are also released 4-6 weeks in advance but only for off-season. Popular seasons get snagged almost a year in advance.
You might be interested in some of these articles primarily focused on QFF:-
Is this discount for the first month or first year of subscription?
Looks like they have a 30% off for Black Friday (in November) previously if you're not in any rush
I've got mainly asia miles points (Cathay). Can we find Cathay rewards flights on this site?
great tool, I pay for it each month and don't book flights and fantasize about how I would spend my points….
Is this useful for economy bookings?
I think using points for business is a waste of money/I'd rather spend the equivalent money on my trip, but most people here seem to be suggesting that's the main benefit of these sites.
It's really points to dollar value. To answer you question, yes it can search for economy flights.
Here's an example for a route that I'm doing. Haneda to Sydney in November is $900~ economy one way, whereas business is $4500~. Reward seats for this usually release a week or two before departure but we'll pretend in this example it's available. It usually costs one way, around 45,000 velocity points to fly economy, compared to 82,000 velocity points to fly business. If you double the points needed from the economy flight for the business flight, you're getting $4500 in 'value', not $1800.
Sure you could argue that you can better spend 90,000 velocity points to fly each way with points, but on the other side, I see it as when am I ever going to fly business otherwise?
Correct me if I'm wrong. If I'm looking to book with points and the rewards seats are all gone, does it make any difference if I check on Qantas website by myself or use one of these paid services?
I would put more trust into Qantas website, as it is the "source of truth," where you are most likely going to book anyway.
no but you can set up alerts so that you get notified as more are released. The release of reward seats isn't a one and done deal, they come out in batches.
Used to be 297-353 days out depending on your status, but got changed to random batch drops now (eg the recent points plane release alongside the devaluation). YMMV for the pros & cons. So one pretty much has to rely on some kinda paid subscription alert now to be able to snag seats. Also some partner airlines release more inventory closer to date of travel.
Amazing site, booked 5 trips last year for myself and the wife all in business class
May i ask whats the difference using this website vs browsing through qantas website?
Notifications, full year visibility and multiple route search.
What daddy said
And you can easily search between VA and QA in one place. The potential to look other programs with KF too.
If your CC can transfer to other airline programs which can be handy when you’re planning multi legs trips
@qtmai: Yeah you're paying for speed + convenience + alerts. Q and V's websites are hardly smooth to navigate and sift through unless you're after something super specific or you don't care about price. FFS Virgin's website still can't even do multi-city searches for international flights in this day and age.
This was a game changer for me, I bought the year membership in a previous sale and signed up for alerts, wouldn't have been able to get two business class seats without it. When someone cancels a flight and it becomes available, this is your only way of grabbing it unless you are checking websites every single day. Money well spent. Virgin tends to release a lot of last minute flights and this will help with that but also useful to compare the points needed on different airlines or to use the explore function which shows you the dates you can get for a particular flight.
is this more targeted towards frequent business flights?
I use the free version and check for both velocity and Qantas points. I mainly look at flights Sydney to LAX/SFO/IAH/DFW. You normally see availability up to 6 weeks ahead. Over the last 6 months or so I have seen plenty of business class flights to the US (on United with Velocity points) if you're prepared to fly at short notice, i.e. in a couple of days or weeks. However, over the last week there haven't been any which is unusual. With the US to Sydney I have seen plenty of business availability with Qantas points on AA, again at short notice.
If we sign up Monthly, will the discount expire after 1 month?
Used to be good. since the qantas devaluation few days ago theres hardly any seats now.
Not like people weren't complaining about the dearth of seats before. Not to mention you would think it would be the other way around since everything costs ~20% more now? Though they did release a whole bunch of a points planes as a small consolation.
Would this useful, if we have already booked the flight and to upgrade? I have some points in Singapore airlines and not sure if i have much with qantas
Signed up following the hype here. First impressions are that the service seems US focused. My searches to Europe were very slow and inconsistant (make a search for a single departure airport, you get available seats for a date, you add a couple more airport options for departure, seats disappear from list). Bit meh so far.
Try searching AUL for all Australian airports to EUR, you can always get an internal connecting flight. Europe is a bit tricky because the search works best for single flights. You can also just try searching in and out of anywhere in Asia to anywhere in Europe and see what it comes up with
Thanks, I will continue playing around with it
Used it before, wasn't really worth it imo. It didn't pick up flights often even with manual search.
Edit: Was for connecting flights, may be way. You have to use Qantas multicity to find them - they don't show up elsewhere.
yeah, kinda defeats the purpose. if I was to manually search leg by leg, Qantas site can do that anyway. It is better, but not amazing so far.
Their cache is amazing for 1-leg use, but that's free to access anyway (or it might be the other site? Either way there's a free option for that).
The manual live search function doesn't pick up all multi hop flights so barely a point. Especially if it's >24hours, I've not seen one at all. Need to use multi-city tool for that
How are you using AUD to pay ? I am only getting USD
I just connected without any VPN and it showed in AUD
Try an Aussie VPN, your IP might be geolocating weirdly
😔 Network error when fetching results; try again? (Error: Network response was not ok: 502)
Couple of questions -
1. Is it good for international flights with QF or VA points?
2. Is it good for domestic flights in Oz?
Was thinking of getting it prior to the QF devaluation