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You can transfer AMEX Or Citi points to Qantas at a 1:1 ratio, Barclays points at a 1.4:1 ratio, Capital One points at a 2:1.5 ratio, or Marriott points to Qantas at a 60K:25K ratio.

Qantas doesn’t charge fuel surcharges for El Al flights.
Infants are free (besides taxes). They also get a regular checked baggage allowance of 23 kg.

QF runs regular transfer bonus promos. Be sure to transfer 500 points into your account and opt in for emails to get targeted.

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Flights are bookable from NYC, BOS, MIA, and LAX.

SMS is the easiest way to contact Qantas. The number is 1-478-772-6827. This can be used for airports that are unavailable online.

NYC-TLV is 37.8k points each way in Y, 63k in premium economy and 78k in J.
On 9/18/19 premium economy will be going up to 70.8k and J will be going up to 90k (each way).
Cancellation fee is 6k points.
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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1420 on: April 29, 2022, 09:24:13 AM »
expert flyer is paid subscription ?
Yes. You can get fee trail for a few days.

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1421 on: April 29, 2022, 11:42:25 AM »
got locked out of my Qantas account cause I forgot my PIN, anyway to get back in without having to call and wait on hold?

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1422 on: May 01, 2022, 10:43:27 PM »
trying to book for for DMIL she has only 32k amex points but she needs 37500 for EWR-TLE OW

whats my options to do this?
can I transfer her points to her Qantas account and then transfer 5500 to my Qantas account and combine?

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1423 on: May 02, 2022, 12:17:43 PM »
trying to book for for DMIL she has only 32k amex points but she needs 37500 for EWR-TLE OW

whats my options to do this?
can I transfer her points to her Qantas account and then transfer 5500 to my Qantas account and combine?

Or can I transfer amex points between family members?

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1424 on: May 02, 2022, 12:29:44 PM »
Or can I transfer amex points between family members?
You can transfer to her QF account from your Amex, if she's an AU on your account.
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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1425 on: May 02, 2022, 02:27:34 PM »
You can transfer to her QF account from your Amex, if she's an AU on your account.
nope she is not

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1426 on: May 02, 2022, 04:41:05 PM »
Or can I transfer amex points between family members?
Can't

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1427 on: May 02, 2022, 04:42:08 PM »
You can transfer to her QF account from your Amex, if she's an AU on your account.
nope she is not
Try to find anyone in the family with same last name and transfer from their Amex to her QF account, Amex to QF only last name need to match.

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1428 on: May 04, 2022, 12:17:55 AM »
I just canceled LY award within 24h. How long for the miles to redeposit?
and is there a fee?

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1429 on: May 04, 2022, 02:15:52 AM »
I just canceled LY award within 24h. How long for the miles to redeposit?
and is there a fee?

Mine was credited recently within a week, there is no fee.

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1430 on: May 04, 2022, 09:23:16 AM »
Is this the true cost of taxes one way EWR-TLV or does Qantas add fees/surcharges etc..?


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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1431 on: May 04, 2022, 08:58:28 PM »
Any Qantas pros here that can answer a quick (maybe silly) Q?

I am trying to book a flight from TLV-JFK and pricing is seemingly changing whilst in the cart

It shows 37,800 + 55gbp and then hops to 50,900 and 234gbp when I head to checkout..?





I'm having the same issue.
Trying to book 3 pax in premium econ TLV-MIA.
Price is 81,800 + £57 ea. Total - 245,400 pts + £171.
After I add to cart it jumps up to 286,800 pts + £1,424.70.

Any ideas what's going on?

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1432 on: May 05, 2022, 12:34:06 PM »
I had the same experience with the tlv jfk flight that I was trying to book. Once I transferred in the points to Qantas it stopped showing the higher amount in the cart. I'm assuming that it only shows that amount when you don't have enough points in your account so you should be fine transferring in the points and booking with the lower fare.

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1433 on: May 05, 2022, 07:36:30 PM »
I had the required points in my account.
Maybe because I had just transferred them in..
I checked again now 24 hours later and it's now showing the correct pricing all the way thru..
Odd

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1434 on: May 10, 2022, 10:06:30 AM »
Is there a way to transfer Citi Thank You Points to Quantas to book EL AL to Israel? Is this a decent value or is there a better way to transfer points to Delta partners for JFK-TLV?

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1435 on: May 15, 2022, 03:34:01 PM »
Any recent DP on transferring Marriott points to Qantas? Tranferred last Sunday and still not showing...Any way to escalate this?

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1436 on: May 17, 2022, 01:27:56 PM »
Booked an elal ticket with qantas miles over a week ago, CDG to TLV. When I try to add the trip to my ELAL app it says it is not yet ticketed and can't be added. Does it typically take this long? (On Qantas website status is "confirmed" and on the confirmation email from qantas there are ticket numbers for each passenger...)

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1437 on: May 19, 2022, 01:42:28 PM »
Does this mean that there will not be any fuel charges at checkout?
I don't want to transfer the points and then find out...




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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1438 on: May 19, 2022, 04:34:57 PM »
Qantas won’t show the fuel charges if there isn’t enough miles to book

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Re: Booking El Al with Qantas - master thread
« Reply #1439 on: May 23, 2022, 10:52:44 AM »
I undertsand that, but I don't want to transfer my amex or capital one points and then find out that I need to pay $400 in taxes and fees....
Would anyone know "about" how much money Qantas charges in addition to the 50,000 points for a roundtrip direct flight on AA from the US to Europe?
I"m looking for an estimated amount...
« Last Edit: May 23, 2022, 10:58:06 AM by Samy1716 »