sick of Qantas searches being 90% Philippine Airlines? Where did Qantas, JAL, and Cathay go?
Where have Qantas, JAL, Cathay, and Emirates gone? useless rewards search tool.
Am I the only one completely fed up with trying to find a decent international Classic Flight Reward right now?
Every single time I search for a flight to Asia, Europe, or the US, my search results are completely flooded with Philippine Airlines flights. It feels like 90% of the reward seats on the entire system are now PAL routings through Manila.
I didn't spend years earning Qantas Points to fly an airline nobody wants to use, with multi-stop, inconvenient layovers.
Where are Qantas’s own planes? Where is Japan Airlines (JAL)? Where are Cathay Pacific and Emirates? It feels like they are completely blocking and withholding their inventory from everyday Qantas members. Cathay seems to be hoarding everything for Asia Miles, Emirates has locked general members out, and Qantas seems to be starving the "Classic Reward" seats entirely just to force us onto their overpriced "Classic Plus" cash-equivalent seats.
It is getting ridiculous. We are trapped looking at a ghost calendar for the top-tier airlines, while being shoved onto Philippine Airlines.
Is anyone else experiencing this absolute lack of premium partner seats? How are you actually booking real Oneworld flights without being forced through Manila?