If you are going down the cash route with no vouchers, I think you could do it for $41 and 3,200 points with the following steps:
(1) Do the quiz;
(2) Offset a domestic flight for less than a buck (e.g. Syd-Mel @ $0.98);
(3) Donate to a charity @ 3,200 points (I can't seem to find a cash...
Any idea what it is there for? I had an alert set up on Flight Radar when they were refurbishing them in Dresden but not sure about the purpose of this flight?
There are some interesting comments elsewhere about how the announcement has been handled from a corporate perspective - that is, quietly, on take out the trash Friday and by Phil Capps (the EGM) rather than Stephanie Tully (the CCO).
I'd love to know whether Tully is staying away from it...
I just don't think that's true. I regularly travel with colleagues and have issues getting them a seat next to me due to the platinum seat hold unless I do it at a counter. I will be genuinely pissed off if the platinum seat hold is abandoned. If they're on a different ticket, a junior colleague...
I got told that it would be 8-10 weeks when I elected to take refunds for all of my travel between April and June. I didn't think that was good enough, so I pushed them and to their credit they did it pretty much immediately (like 2-3 days).
Qantas told the market in May...
I didn't realise they were applying DSCs on vouchers!! I had to cancel 16 flights with around 1,200 SCs attached to them as a result of Covid-19. I pushed them hard to get the fares refunded instead of having $$ tied up in vouchers. If they'd told me that they would honour all DSCs I probably...
Thanks @serfty and @ajd - you were life savers! Managed to get a seat for me and my Dad before it sold out. For some reason I couldn't get the page for like 5 minutes on either of my computers or any of my browsers...