Guides
Every guide is sourced, dated and re-verified — no recycled press releases.
oneworld Explorer from ~$13,800 in business, the Qantas Oneworld Classic Award at 365,800 points + ~$1,100, or separate tickets — the real 2026 numbers, a genuine booked example, and the maths that picks your product.
Updated October 2026 · 11 min read
Every major issuer's published sign-up-bonus exclusion window, verified against current offer terms — the 24-month era has arrived, two banks moved in the last year, and the fine print measures the clock three different ways.
Updated September 2026 · 10 min read
The one-stop game that halves the nonstop price, the Jetstar sale calendar, and the 82,000-point business class door via Velocity — every path priced with dated evidence, including the ones not worth taking.
Updated September 2026 · 10 min read
Most booking-window advice is American data wearing an Australian accent. Here's the actual evidence — dated, sourced, US-weighted studies flagged as such — plus the AU sales calendar that beats all of it.
Updated September 2026 · 10 min read
Velocity's bonuses run to a near-clockwork calendar; Qantas hasn't run a bank-transfer bonus since 2021. The full event history, the discount maths, and the honest test for when a 15–20% bonus is a gift — and when it's bait.
Updated September 2026 · 9 min read
The full price list (including the ex-Perth sweet spots nobody mentions), the carrier-charge bill in real dollars, which aircraft actually have Qsuites, and the wave-watching routine that books the seat.
Updated August 2026 · 11 min read
The 353-day myth is dead — premium reward seats now release in waves, mostly close to departure. Which partners still open the calendar a year out, what the Flight Reward Finder can and can't see, and the playbook that actually books seats.
Updated August 2026 · 11 min read
What a Status Credit actually costs to buy, what each tier is worth, and how the 2026–27 rollover and single-target changes rewrite run maths — with the honest list of when not to bother.
Updated August 2026 · 15 min read
Post-overhaul Velocity, scored honestly: the Qatar door, ANA, published reward charts and $12-a-Status-Credit determinism versus a thinner partner map, a dead United path and a haircut on every transfer out.
Updated August 2026 · 15 min read
QFF is six different redemption products wearing one brand — and they range from 3c+ per point to under 0.5c. The verdict on each, with the maths shown, and the honest list of what to skip.
Updated August 2026 · 17 min read
The exact search sequence we run — which sites, in what order, with decision gates at every step. Plus split-ticketing and ex-Asia origins, with honest risk boxes, and when not to bother.
Updated August 2026 · 14 min read
Strike-price tables for the ten routes Australians fly most — the fare at which you should simply book, and the fare worth rearranging leave for. Dated, sourced, re-benchmarked quarterly.
Updated August 2026 · 9 min read
Rollover, ground-earned Status Credits, the single target, Loyalty Bonus gone. What actually changes, when — and what to do about it at every tier.
Updated July 2026 · 6 min read