Melbourne to Los Angeles,
in economy, on points.

Economy to Los Angeles costs 48,200 points one way, and unlike the top of the same chart, this price still moves with distance. The zone covering 7,001 to 8,400 miles holds the journey at 7,927 great-circle statute miles, while the zone above it, 8,401 to 9,600, prices economy at 58,900. A longer routing on this corridor therefore costs something, which is not true across the whole table, and it is worth establishing before two long journeys get compared as though one chart treated them alike.

Margin is a live quantity on this page rather than a formality. The gap between 7,927 and 8,400 is all the room this seat has, and it is the sort of margin an itinerary can spend without anyone intending to — a leg added beyond the gateway inside one booking, or a track that runs longer than the great-circle line. Whether a programme scores the journey on the flown path or the computed one is its own rule, and this site prices the computed distance because that is what the published table is indexed on.

Four figures sit on the row: 48,200, 97,600, 130,100 and 195,400, with 58,900, 113,900, 151,800 and 227,800 one zone further out. Economy and business are published as seats for this city pair and the two cabins between them are not, because a price in a table says what a programme would charge and says nothing about whether the cabin flies. Collecting that is a separate job against each airline's own route pages.

No second programme prices this seat, and the reason is a gap in evidence rather than a gap in charts. A Velocity figure is read off the table belonging to whichever airline operates the flight, so the corridor needs a sourced operator before it can carry a number. The search for that statement has been run and has come back with fare pages rather than route statements, and a fare page establishes that a seat is sold, never who flies it. So the second column is empty, and it is empty for a reason this page states rather than hides.

Both cash cells are empty and the cause is the same one that empties them sitewide. Qantas quotes taxes, fees and carrier charges at the time of booking and publishes no per-route figure, which leaves cents-per-point uncomputable on this page as on every other. A compiled list from a third party would fill the column and cost the site the only thing that makes the column worth reading.

The crossover table above converts 48,200 into months of ordinary spending, pattern by pattern, on each pattern's strongest card, with a sign-up bonus counted only where the pattern clears its published hurdle. Of the two longest journeys this site prices, this is the cheaper one, and down the back it is reachable on patterns that would never finish the same corridor in front. Direct Qantas earners hold the currency already; a flexible balance needs a published crossing, and the bridge table shows which exist rather than assuming that a large balance implies a route.

Availability is the part of the answer no chart contains. Economy releases in larger numbers than the cabins in front of it and meets larger demand in return, and neither fact is a promise about any date. Knowing the fair price before the search starts is what makes a decision fast, and here that price is 48,200 plus an unpublished cash line.

Each figure was read from the programme's own published table on the date shown beside it, and the register above states whether a person has re-checked the row. Tables change on the programme's schedule rather than the reader's. Confirm at the source before a balance is committed.