Qantas Releases New Award Charts With Higher Redemption Prices

Updated: October 16, 2025, 2:39am CDT

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How Qantas Award Charts Are Changing in 2025
Domestic U.S. Redemptions Are Increasing
Final Thoughts

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Qantas Airways is introducing new award charts, taking effect later this year. The airline announced this in late 2024, and now we have a date for the new prices.

The good news is that the new charts will come into effect in August, giving travelers several months to plan any future award flights. The bad news is that award prices are higher, up to 20% in some cases, affecting even U.S. domestic redemptions.

Let’s look at the new Qantas award charts in more detail.

How Qantas Award Charts Are Changing in 2025

Qantas is the latest major international airline to raise its award prices. This is known as a devaluation since it often makes points less valuable compared to cash prices for a flight.

Yet, the changes to the Qantas Frequent Flyer program aren’t as bad as we’ve seen with some competing loyalty programs lately. As announced previously, Qantas is also retaining award charts with fixed amounts of points for a given flight distance. Other programs have adopted dynamic pricing, which changes with demand and makes it difficult to know in advance how many points you’ll need for a flight.

The new Qantas award charts are coming into effect for bookings made on or after August 5, 2025. You have until then to book award tickets at the current prices. Qantas is also retaining several separate award charts, differentiating between flights on its own airplanes and flights on partner airlines.

Here is the new Classic Flight Rewards chart that applies to Qantas, its low-cost subsidiary Jetstar, Emirates, Fiji Arways, and — most importantly for U.S. flyers — American Airlines. This table lists the amount of Qantas points needed before and after August 5 in economy (Y), premium economy (W), business (C), and first class (F).

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Zone	One-way distance	New/old price (Y)	New/old price (W)	New/old price (C)	New/old price (F)
1	0-600	9,200 / 8,000	14,500 / 13,800	19,300 / 18,400	29,000 / 27,600
2	601-1,200	13,800 / 12,000	21,600 / 20,600	29,000 / 27,600	43,600 / 41,500
3	1,201-2,400	20,700 / 18,000	32,600 / 31,000	43,600 / 41,500	65,300 / 62,200
4	2,401-3,600	23,300 / 20,300	50,600 / 42,200	68,400 / 57,000	102,600 / 85,500
5	3,601-4,800	29,000 / 25,200	61,600 / 51,300	82,100 / 68,400	123,100 / 102,600
6	4,801-5,800	36,200 / 31,500	73,800 / 61,500	98,400 / 82,000	147,700 / 123,100
7	5,801-7,000	43,200 / 37,600	85,300 / 71,100	113,900 / 94,900	170,800 / 142,300
8	7,001-8,400	48,200 / 41,900	97,600 / 81,300	130,100 / 108,400	195,400 / 162,800
9	8,401-9,600	58,900 / 51,200	113,900 / 94,900	151,800 / 126,500	227,800 / 189,800
10	9,601-15,000	63,500 / 55,200	124,700 / 108,400	166,300 / 144,600	249,400 / 216,900

Los Angeles (LAX) to Sydney (SYD), a Qantas route on which people often redeem points, is 7,500 miles long and falls within zone 8. Under the current chart, a coveted Qantas first-class redemption costs 162,800 points. After August 5, it will go up to 195,400, an increase of 20%. The same percentage increase applies to business and premium economy on this route, while economy class is up 15%.

Qantas Frequent Flyer has a lot of partners, too, with several of them outside of Qantas’ own alliance, Oneworld.

These partners have their own Classic Flight Rewards award chart, which includes Air France, Alaska Airlines, Bangkok Airways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, China Eastern, El Al, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, KLM, Malaysia Airlines, Oman Air, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian, SriLankan, and WestJet.

Here is the award chart that applies to them from August:

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Zone	One-way distance	New/old price (Y)	New/old price (W)	New/old price (C)	New/old price (F)
1	0-600	11,500 / 10,000	16,600 / 15,800	21,000 / 20,000	31,500 / 29,000
2	601-1,200	16,100 / 14,000	24,900 / 23,700	31,500 / 30,000	45,700 / 43,500
3	1,201-2,400	23,000 / 20,000	36,200 / 34,500	46,000 / 43,800	67,700 / 64,500
4	2,401-3,600	28,200 / 24,500	58,200 / 48,500	73,400 / 61,200	107,800 / 89,800
5	3,601-4,800	34,700 / 30,200	70,800 / 59,000	90,000 / 75,000	129,200 / 107,700
6	4,801-5,800	43,500 / 37,800	85,000 / 70,800	108,000 / 90,000	155,200 / 129,300
7	5,801-7,000	51,800 / 45,000	98,200 / 81,800	125,400 / 104,500	179,800 / 149,800
8	7,001-8,400	57,800 / 50,300	112,200 / 93,500	143,000 / 119,200	205,000 / 170,800
9	8,401-9,600	70,700 / 61,500	130,800 / 109,000	167,000 / 139,200	239,200 / 199,300
10	9,601-15,000	76,100 / 66,200	143,500 / 124,800	182,900 / 159,000	261,600 / 227,500

This award chart does not include bookings on Hawaiian Airlines, which Qantas said ought to be possible from October 2025.

Domestic U.S. Redemptions Are Increasing

A particularly sweet spot for Qantas Frequent Flyer points redemptions has been for short, round-trip economy hops on American Airlines, which required just 16,000 points in economy class.

This is especially good for flights from Miami (MIA) because some Caribbean destinations fall within this range, and 16,000 points is a lot less than what other programs charge for these same flights. Under the new chart, those round-trips on American will cost 18,400 points, a 15% increase.

Similar increases are happening for other American Airlines routes for which Qantas points have typically been a good redemption.

For example, New York-JFK to Los Angeles (LAX) in economy falls into zone 4 of the award chart, which is increasing from 40,600 to 46,600 points. That’s also a 15% increase. The same percentage is true for Alaska Airlines, with economy from Newark (EWR) to LAX going from 49,000 to 56,400 points.

The increase is far more dramatic in business class. To fly in a lie-flat bed from JFK to LAX, you’ll need 136,800 points after August 5, an increase of 31.5%.

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Final Thoughts

Qantas has published new award charts that will go into effect from August 5, 2025. Redemption prices that are likely to interest U.S. flyers will go up by 15% or more. In the case of coast-to-coast redemptions for American Airlines business class, they’ll go up by more than 30%.

The good news is that you have nearly 5 months to plan a redemption before award rates go up.