Qantas launches new Classic Reward search tool
A new way to quickly find and book Classic Reward seats on Qantas and 30 partner airlines.
By Staff Writers, March 24 2026
There’s finally an easier way to find and book seats at low Classic Reward points rates on international Qantas flights – and not just Qantas, but more than 30 partner airlines.
Now live onthe Qantas website is a powerful and flexible tool which can display every available international Classic Reward seat, ordered by destination and cabin type, over a 12-month booking period.
“Today, when members search for a particular flight through Classic Rewards, they are largely restricted to point-to-point searches, such as Sydney to London or Sydney to Paris,” Qantas Loyalty and Customer CEO Andrew Glance told Executive Traveller ahead of this week’s launch.
“They have to choose the route and the date.”
The new search system dramatically boosts the “discoverability” of Classic Reward seats by searching on a “region-to-region” basis.
Plenty of Classic Reward seat options to Asia.
“You could search Australia to Europe, for example, and this opens up all ports across both destination and origin... across all dates and through all the cabins.”
Each serach dives into the Classic Reward seat inventory of not only Qantas but also on Jetstar, Emirates and all Oneworld member airlines, plus other Qantas partners such as China Airlines, using their own routes through their own hubs.
This search for flights to the UK, Ireland and Europe exposes options on Cathay Pacific and Emirates.
“This provides an enormous amount of opportunity in terms of dates and, more importantly, flights,” Glance says.
“It’s a fantastic addition for our frequent flyers, and importantly gives them access to the flights they want through Classic Flight Rewards.”
The service shows Classic Reward seats in cabins ranging from economy and premium economy to business and even first class, across a raft of routes and airlines – all on a single easy-to-navigate view.
Take a flexible approach to points-based bookings in the month view.
Classic Reward seats remain the golden ticket for QFF members, as they are available for a fixed and relatively low number of Qantas Points – but only on a limited number of seats on any flight or route.
For example, a one-way business class Qantas Classic Reward seat between Sydney and Singapore comes in at 82,100 Qantas Points, while the equivalent to London or New York is pegged at 166,300 Qantas Points.
By comparison, the controversial Classic Plus program makes more seats available but for a substantially higher number of points, as this scheme is geared to the actual cash price of a ticket – which is why people are often aghast to see one-way international business class seats costing several hundred thousand points.
09 Feb 2021
Total posts 23
A welcome development, although it then becomes even more incumbent on Qantas to release more Classic Rewards seats than they do currently.
25 Nov 2025
Total posts 35
Exactly what I said.
30 Jan 2022
Total posts 1
Can you actually use it on a mobile phone? That’s the sad reality of the current setup.
22 Nov 2025
Total posts 2
There's little doubt this needed work done to make it easier to view as it was cumbersome and for many too hard and difficult to bother trying to navigate. Any improvements done to allow (as your story suggests) a overview across dates, flights, regions and now carriers - makes this a potentially game changer.
Qantas will always have its critics (and on certain days I have been one of them) but I also give them some kudos for the changes they are making under new management to try and return it to the ranks of a great Australian airline again.
Cannot wait to see this new initiative and give it a good testing.
QFF
12 Apr 2013
Total posts 1618
Sounds promising, we shall see.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
04 Feb 2013
Total posts 45
Interesting that you don't need to sign into QFF to search for availability. If this is the case moving forward tends to indicate that QFF Status is not considered in the search.
I done a simple test of this new search between some SE Asia and Australia cities and can already see a few availability gaps between the new tool and the old (the old still is useable). The old tool is showing availability where the new doesn't. Maybe only early days, but you'd think this had been tested extensively.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
20 Aug 2014
Total posts 182
Still seems pretty buggy. When I find a flight, then click "Check Availability" then click "Continue" it dumps me back to the 1st screen (flightrewardfinder dot qantas dot com).
What it does do well is help you easily find an economy reward flight. What is also does well is highlight the astonishing lack of business reward flights.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
13 Apr 2016
Total posts 12
The one thing this "tool" really shows you is the woefully poor number of award seats Qantas make available to their long suffering customers. When you compare this to the award availability of SQ, CZ or the ME airlines, the disparity is HUGE.
ITs almost not worth collecting QF points these days.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
13 Apr 2016
Total posts 12
The one thing this "tool" really shows you is the woefully poor number of award seats Qantas make available to their long suffering customers. When you compare this to the award availability of SQ, CZ or the ME airlines, the disparity is HUGE.
Its almost not worth collecting QF points these days.
08 Jan 2012
Total posts 13
Another weird issue with this tool is that if I search Australia to Europe I can get two business class seats from Adelaide to Prague on August 16th. The routing is Adelaide to Melbourne on Jetstar and then Melbourne to Prague on Emirates via Dubai, but if I try to book just the Melbourne to Prague flight it shows no availability!
QFF
12 Apr 2013
Total posts 1618
It is very seldom happens, but Qantas rolled out an exceptional tool. It allow you to see availability for wide range of destination and date at glance. However after using this tool for a while I fell into depression - availability of premium cabins is incredibly skewed and limited. Only New Zealand where Qantas flying ugly B737 "business class" is more or less OK. Plenty of seats to Dubai with exorbitant taxes (not my favorite destination even few years ago, and now no-one need it), nothing to HKG, few seats for whole year to NRT and SIN while BKK covered with Jetstar "business". LHR represented only by Emirates via Dubai. There is NOTHING for full year to LAX, two seats on one plane to JFK (someone who need! grep it!) and nothing to DFW. Since introduction of Classic Scam premium seats became an illusion. Lucky me that I managed to secure 2 (sic!) seats MEL-NRT; HND-LAX and back YVR-NAN-MEL for August!
25 Nov 2025
Total posts 35
Absolute garbage tool. Looks good but the only thing is does successfully is show you the lack of premium cabin seats.
QFF need to understand something simple - "no one wants economy seats, not even domestically, that's why there's lots of them", but they put them in there to try and obfuscate the aforementioned lack.
You want a flight out of SE Asia to Europe ? Your choice is EK or WY, stopping in the Middle East. No thanks.
QFF need to understand something else really simple - even after this is over, it will take years for confidence in the ME carriers to return, thanks to the way that they (and DFAT) handled things so woefully, especially their comms...everyone for themselves versus RSAF's "no man left behind"; RSAF did a stellar job of evacuating their citizens.
After witnessing the debacle, I'd never fly EK again.
25 Mar 2026
Total posts 1
As the saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. In this case the new search tool is a good MVP. with plenty of opportunity for improvement. Unfortunately for Qantas it highlights how astonishingly few premium class seats are available on Qantas flights to popular destinations.
17 Jan 2018
Total posts 87
Great tool. However a spectacular own goal by Qantas highlighting the lack of premium cabin classic award seat availability on QF.
Solution dump the kangaroo and use SQ. Better service, more flights and sooooo much easier to get flight redemptions.
17 Jan 2018
Total posts 87
Been trying to find a EK first class redemption from Singapore before rates were significantly increased yesterday. Only been 1 flight to Lisbon available next year. Suddenly today (after redemption rates have increased 20%) many more destinations available. This just highlights how disingenuous Qantas and/or Emirates are towards their "highly valued" customers.
16 Nov 2018
Total posts 3
Since its release I've checked regularly for MEL-HKG business class and find it quite useless; mostly inaccurate, and even if accurate, not enough reward flights to be useable. We're about 18 years into successful business class redemptions to HKG; up to twice/year (covid excluded obviously) but since August 2025 I've stopped international redemption because there is effectively no availability. Not even to other Asian or European destinations. Any interest in directing my company's spend to earn Qantas points is no more. Amazed to see that this programme is valued t $6-7 billion because we're jumping off Qantas for paid fares on Singapore Airlines.
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