Strange Qantas economy / business redemption pricing

[Caversham04]

Bit of a strange one while doing some flight research. Male (Maldives) > Colombo > Melbourne on Sri Lankan Airlines is 100,000 pts +$247 in Economy or 86,200 points and $341 in Business. Wouldn't be a difficult decision if I was in a position to make a firm booking right now!

 

[encryptededdy]

Bit of a strange one while doing some flight research. Male (Maldives) > Colombo > Melbourne on Sri Lankan Airlines is 100,000 pts +$247 in Economy or 86,200 points and $341 in Business. Wouldn't be a difficult decision if I was in a position to make a firm booking right now!

Most likely one of those flights will only have business award seats left, so the economy will book into Econ + Biz and price as two seperate legs, whereas the Business reward will be all in Biz and price together.

If you select the economy option and press next, it may re-price lower.

 

[Caversham04]

Most likely one of those flights will only have business award seats left, so the economy will book into Econ + Biz and price as two seperate legs, whereas the Business reward will be all in Biz and price together.

If you select the economy option and press next, it may re-price lower.

Thanks - that looks to be the case! I've seen "Business" Rewards actually book downwards into Economy for one or more legs, but never an "Economy" Reward book upwards. You learn something new every day......!