What the extension does
The Qantas Reward Flight Finder is a great tool for browsing Classic Flight Reward availability across Qantas, Jetstar, and 30+ partner airlines. But it ships with one notable gap: there's no airline filter. Every result appears regardless of whether you'd actually want to book that airline.
This extension appears as a small toolbar directly on the Reward Flight Finder page. It automatically detects which airlines appear in your search results and gives you a one-click toggle for each one. Hide the carriers you don't want and your results update instantly, right on the page.
Instant airline filtering
Toggle any airline on or off with a single click. Results update immediately, no page reload required.
Your preferences, saved
Excluded airlines are remembered between searches and browser sessions. Set it once, forget it.
Pagination-aware
Filters automatically re-apply when you browse to the next page of results. Nothing resets.
Why would you want to filter airlines?
Not all Classic Reward seats are created equal. A Business Class redemption might cost 98,400 Qantas Points on paper, but the real cost varies enormously depending on which carrier is operating the flight, once you factor in carrier charges, status credits, and personal airline preferences.
Here are the main reasons frequent flyers choose to filter:
Minimise cash outlay
Some partner airlines impose high "carrier charges" on top of the points cost. Filtering these out leaves only the redemptions where you're truly just paying taxes and fees.
Status credits
Status Credits on Classic Rewards are only earned on QF-marketed and QF-operated flights, and only if you hold Points Club or Points Club Plus. Filtering to QF services makes it easy to find qualifying flights.
Airline preference
Hard product, soft product, lounge access, reliability. You may simply prefer flying certain airlines over others, regardless of cost.
Alliance & partner benefits
Oneworld partners like British Airways, Cathay Pacific, and Japan Airlines offer alliance benefits that non-alliance carriers don't.
Route-specific experience
For long-haul routes, aircraft type and seat configuration differ wildly. Filtering to your preferred carrier helps you find exactly the product you're after.
Cut through the noise
With 30+ partner airlines in results, popular routes can show dozens of itineraries. Filtering down to 3–4 preferred carriers makes the shortlist much more actionable.
The carrier charges problem
When you redeem Qantas Points for a Classic Flight Reward, you still pay a cash component. This covers two things: government taxes (unavoidable) and carrier-imposed charges, also called carrier surcharges or fuel surcharges, which vary entirely at the airline's discretion.
Carrier charges are set by the operating airline, not Qantas. Each airline chooses its own surcharge level and these can change without notice. For example, some partners like British Airways or Emirates are known for significantly higher surcharges than others like Japan Airlines or Cathay Pacific.
Status credits on Classic Flight Rewards
If you're working towards or maintaining Qantas Gold, Platinum, or Platinum One status, the airline you fly on a Classic Reward matters, though perhaps not in the way you'd expect.
Important: Classic Flight Rewards do not earn Qantas Points. Regardless of which airline operates the flight, you will not accrue points on a reward booking.
Status Credits are a different story, but the conditions are strict. Status Credits are only earned on Classic Flight Rewards when all three of the following apply:
QF marketed flight
The flight must carry a Qantas (QF) flight number on your booking, not a flight number from another airline.
QF operated flight
Qantas must be the operating carrier. The aircraft and crew must be Qantas, not another airline flying under a QF code.
Points Club membership
You must hold an active Points Club or Points Club Plus subscription to earn Status Credits on Classic Flight Rewards.
In practice, this means reward bookings on partner airlines, even Oneworld partners like Cathay Pacific or Japan Airlines, earn zero Status Credits. Only QF-marketed and QF-operated flights qualify, and only for Points Club members.
If earning Status Credits on reward flights is important to you, use the airline filter to narrow results to QF-operated services.
How the filtering actually works
The extension reads each flight result in the page and identifies every airline involved in that itinerary, including all connecting legs. A toggle button appears for each airline detected in your current results.
Important: filtering is applied to the entire itinerary. If you exclude an airline, any result where that airline operates any leg of the journey will be hidden, even if the other legs are operated by carriers you do want to see.
A common example: you're searching Sydney to London and you filter out British Airways (BA). You might notice some Qantas-coded itineraries disappearing too. This happens because those itineraries include a connection on a BA-operated flight, perhaps Sydney to Singapore on QF then Singapore to London on BA. Since BA is in the route, the whole itinerary is hidden.
This is intentional and correct behaviour. If British Airways is the reason you're filtering, it doesn't matter which airline code is printed on your ticket. You're still flying on a BA-operated aircraft and subject to BA's carrier charges.
Extension scans your results
When the page loads, the extension reads every flight result and builds a list of all airlines present across all legs.
Toolbar appears with airline toggles
A small floating toolbar appears on the page. One toggle per detected airline to show or hide.
Click to filter
Clicking a toggle instantly hides or shows all results involving that airline. A count shows how many results are visible vs total.
Filters persist across pages
When you navigate to the next page of results, the extension detects the page change and automatically re-applies your filters to the new results.
Frequently asked questions
I filtered out an airline but some Qantas-coded flights disappeared too. Is that a bug?
No, this is expected behaviour. Those QF-coded itineraries include at least one leg operated by the airline you excluded. For example, if you filter out British Airways (BA), a Sydney to London itinerary where BA operates a connecting leg will be hidden in full. If your reason for filtering is carrier charges, those charges apply regardless of which airline code appears on your ticket.
Does it work across multiple pages of results?
Yes. The Reward Flight Finder re-renders the page when you paginate. The extension detects this and automatically re-applies your active filters to each new page of results without you having to do anything.
Are my filter preferences saved?
Yes. Your excluded airlines are stored in your browser's local extension storage. They persist between browser sessions and across different searches, so you only need to configure them once.
Does the extension send any data anywhere?
No. The extension makes zero external network requests. Everything runs locally in your browser. It reads the Qantas Reward Flight Finder page and manipulates the display. Nothing is transmitted anywhere.
Will it break if Qantas updates the Reward Flight Finder?
It's possible. If Qantas makes significant changes to how the page is built, the extension may stop working correctly and need an update. Check back here if something seems off.
Can I filter by number of stops or maximum points as well?
Not directly, but the Reward Flight Finder itself lets you sort results by points or departure time using the column headers, which can help narrow things down. Additional features may be added to the extension over time.
Like the extension?
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