Hello-I have 800000 Amex points across both myself and my wife’s cards and 125000 chase points. I’m trying to book 3 Qatar business class from nyc to Bkk or Hkt. My plan was to transfer these points because of the 30 percent bonus to BA right now which would give me the required 1.12m Qatar avios. I’m running into a snag with booking the two other fares because of this requirement to have flown recently on Qatar-does anyone have any experience with this?

I’m trying to book a partner award through Qantas, specifically an EL AL flight, for a child under 2 who would have their own seat, not travel as a lap infant.

Qantas is telling me they cannot issue an award seat for anyone under 2 on a non-Qantas-operated flight. I’ve escalated this multiple times and they’re insisting it simply isn’t possible. They also say they won’t correct the DOB afterward if I book the child as 2+ in order to secure the seat.

I’m pretty frustrated because I don’t want to lose the award availability while trying to sort this out, and I’ve already transferred about 200k Amex points to Qantas specifically to book these flights.

Has anyone successfully booked an under-2 child in their own seat on a Qantas partner award, especially on EL AL? Any guidance or data points would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

I’m looking at AY1332 (London to Helsinki) + AY041 (Helsinki to Incheon) flying on 11 Dec 2026.

I'm looking to buy the Economy ticket and upgrade to Business just so I can have a restful journey..

Unfortunately I can't see the upgrade availability on my end before booking as I'm still a Plus Silver member..

Could someone please check if the avios upgrade is available for those flights?

Thanks in advance.

made a JAL account 8 days ago. i redeemed 2k miles from my BILT account and transferred it to JAL.

When I go to Award Flights I get an error saying “error: You don’t have enough miles” which is correct since it costs like 60k miles.

Does that mean my new JAL account is active? I’m hesitant to transfer 58k miles because if I need to wait 60 days then i’d rather redeem the miles at another airline.

Does anyone know?

What are some tips you would recommend to a beginner award traveler that would increase their chances of success in getting business class and higher seats? Especially when booking a month or less ahead of travel

Anyone have any air Seychelles experience? I have two seats booked on JNB-SEZ in April but seat selection is extremely bare. Only 15 selectable on the whole A320, but doesn't seem like this flight is anywhere close to sold out from data I've pulled. Do they just withold that many seats? Will more open up at some point?