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.

“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 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.

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.

Access the new Qantas Classic Rewards search tool here.