Qantas launches massive frequent flyer seat sale offer

With borders starting to open, and international travel set to resume Qantas have released their largest-ever sale of flight reward seats.

Frequent flyer members have been given the “largest-ever” opportunity to snap up a ticket on a Qantas flight, with the airline’s massive release of Classic Flight Reward seats for frequent flyers.

Millions of seats will be available with the airline, in the biggest single release of reward flights in the airline’s history.

From today, members of the Frequent Flyer program will have access to up to 50 per cent more of its best-value points seats on international and domestic routes until the end of 2022.

Some of the destinations the seats will be available on include London, Los Angeles, Fiji, Byron Bay and Cairns.

The opportunity comes as international borders set to open up in November. Picture: William WEST / AFP.

Qantas Loyalty CEO Olivia Wirth said the sale gave Frequent Flyer members the perfect opportunity to use some of their points which had been accumulating since the beginning of the pandemic.

“Many Qantas Frequent Flyers have been stockpiling points they have earned on the ground so they can use them to travel once travel restrictions are lifted,” she explained.

“There’s no doubt we will appreciate travel in 2022 like never before and Qantas is excited to help Australians rediscover the joy of flying and making travel memories with their loved ones.

Qantas will bring back points planes. Picture: Peter PARKS / AFP

Ms Wirth said the airline will also be announcing more domestic and international Points Planes, which are essentially planes with seats only for Frequent Flyer members.

The airline, which will start flying overseas again on November 1, said frequent flyer members had redeemed more than two billion points since they announced international flights would resume in 2021.

The airline will be flying to London and Los Angeles first, followed by Fiji and Japan later in the year.

So far, Qantas said flights to London and Los Angeles had been the most popular for bookings.

In addition to flights to London and Los Angeles resuming on November 1, trans-Tasman flights are expected to make a comeback in mid-December, and routes to Tokyo, Fiji, Canada and Singapore are scheduled from December 18, with other destinations such as San Francisco, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Dallas expected to resume by April next year.

Virgin Australia will also return to international flying for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic with flights to Fiji restarting in December.