Qantas’ new reward seat tables from August 2025

Ahead of a major frequent flyer shake-up this year, Qantas Frequent Flyer has now released more details on the upcoming reward seat pricing changes that will take place from 5 August 2025. That leaves just under five months to make new bookings at current reward seat prices before the increase.

In short, most Qantas Classic Flight rewards are increasing by 15-20%, particularly in premium cabins on longer routes. Shorter flights will see a minor increase of around 5% and lead-in Jetstar flights in Economy will decrease by 10%. There’s also one silver lining – Emirates will move from the Partner table to the cheaper Qantas table, so the points increase for Emirates won’t be as steep overall.

1. Qantas Classic Flight Reward table

The points needed for Qantas’ own flights, alongside Fiji Airways and American Airlines will increase from 5-20% across the board. Emirates will move back from the pricier Partner table to this table from 5 August 2025.

2. Jetstar Classic Flight Reward table

As competition with Virgin Australia intensifies, Jetstar’s shortest Economy flights will soon drop by 10%, starting from 5,700 points + fees and taxes. However, the rest of the table will still increase by up to 20%.

3. Partner Classic Flight Reward table

All other Qantas partner airlines not mentioned above will sit in this table. Those are: Air France, Alaska Airlines, Bangkok Airways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, China Airlines, China Eastern, EL AL, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, KLM, LATAM Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Oman Air, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian, SriLankan Airlines and WestJet.

4. Oneworld Classic Flight Reward table

Finally, the Oneworld Classic Flight Reward table is also getting a similar update. This table covers any rewards with two or more oneworld airline partners – excluding Qantas.

It’s also the table on which the popular ’round the world’ reward with Qantas Points is based. From 5 August 2025, you’ll need these points to fly up to 35,000 miles on oneworld partner airlines (including around the world):

• Economy: 152,000 pts
• Premium Economy: 287,000 pts
• Business: 365,800 pts
• First: 523,200 pts

Summing up

Qantas usually updates its reward seat tables every 6-7 years, so this increase isn’t unexpected. But it’s still a blow to the points budget. To take advantage of current rates, we recommend locking in your future travel before 4 August 2025. Depending on when you book, that’s a travel window of up to 31 July 2026.

Five months is still plenty of time to prepare for a points devaluation, so consider taking advantage of points offers in the market if you want to travel in the next year or so.