Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveller

[Jack_OC]

Re: Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveler

You said "had", so is that to mean it has now been taken down?

Nope. Still there. Earn double Status Credits with Virgin Australia | Business Travel Offers | Corporate Traveller

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Re: Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveler

so is that to mean it has now been taken down?

Who cares? If a scummy $6k + is not good enough for them, so be it. It was only two airfares I could have used for DSC's and I'm hardly going to lose sleep over that. As said previously, the lack of a polite email saying I was scum, really says more about them then me!

 

[Edge]

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I sent an enquiry to FCM and got an immediate phone call from someone following up. Clearly some people care about new business, others don't.

Turns out our organisation has an account with Flight Centre Business Travel (the DSC offer applies through them) so I've just booked 5x return trips for the next month through them.

Service - it's not that hard.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Re: Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveler

I sent an enquiry to FCM and got an immediate phone call from someone following up. Clearly some people care about new business, others don't.

Turns out our organisation has an account with Flight Centre Business Travel (the DSC offer applies through them) so I've just booked 5x return trips for the next month through them.

Service - it's not that hard.

Thanks for the info. I'll contact both of those today and see if it's worthwhile or whether they're even interested in my travel. VA has their sale as well so I will see if it can apply to sale fares, or even if a travel agency can even buy the sale fares, or business saver, or apply a discount code. I'm not convinced I'd be better off by paying someone to do my own legwork and with the current sale, the double SC offer is not hugely more attractive than the sale fares.

 

[Edge]

Re: Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveler

I think it applies to anything "elevate" and above. The prices I paid were the same as booking via the VA website.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Re: Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveler

I think it applies to anything "elevate" and above. The prices I paid were the same as booking via the VA website.

Sale price, or non sale price??

 

[Edge]

Re: Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveler

Think they were non-sale because I left the booking pretty late and they are busy routes. Not sure whether the offer applies to sale fares - there are t&c on the link when you register

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Re: Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveler

I take it that buying through Flight Centre would see a Flight Centre CC transaction? ie, no 3x points with a Velocity AMEX??

 

[QF WP]

Re: Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveler

Okay, I have no trouble with that page as it specifies that bookings need to be made through them (Point 3), so at this point you become their client. Where the (prospective) client also forwards it onto another prospective client and they book through Corporate Traveller, then similarly I have no beef.

Alas, I have no forward bookings to make at present, so I'll miss out.

Nope. Still there. Earn double Status Credits with Virgin Australia | Business Travel Offers | Corporate Traveller

 

[QF WP]

Re: Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveler

I take it that buying through Flight Centre would see a Flight Centre CC transaction?

That is my understanding (having used them in the past, but not for 5+ years).

ie, no 3x points with a Velocity AMEX??

Is DSC worth more than 3x points (I'd hazard a guess, YES if you are going to achieve Platinum!)

 

[QF WP]

Re: Double Status Credits offer thru Corporate Traveler

Whilst retail fares are generally more than wholesale (TA) fares, it could be (given your explanation) that you got the highest fare bucket in the class of travel. My Elevate fares (V or higher) were $20 more on the VA booking site than my corporate TA was charging. I'm sure if I had checked on the Accelerate portal prices would have been similar to Egencia (my Associations' TA)

I think it applies to anything "elevate" and above. The prices I paid were the same as booking via the VA website.

Sale price, or non sale price??

Think they were non-sale because I left the booking pretty late and they are busy routes. Not sure whether the offer applies to sale fares - there are t&c on the link when you register

 

[Deleted member 29185]

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Is DSC worth more than 3x points (I'd hazard a guess, YES if you are going to achieve Platinum!)

QF WP, you know nothing is ever simple with me! I always do a balancing act with SC's and what this DSC meant is that I can fly two extra QF flights next year to keep WP with QF as well as VA. Possibly not what VA had hoped for but to answer your question, I guess, yes, they are worth more than the 3x points.

The difference in fare ended up being remarkably small to get the extra SCs. The sale fare BNE-CNS in J was $459 + VA fee (I'm not even sure what that is these days, a percentage I think), whereas the Flight Centre cost, booking into a J saver (which is a DSC earning bucket), with all their fees and CC charges comes in at $482 for DSC. Can't argue with that, I guess!

I was just a bit peeved that I couldn't do more flights, but I'd already booked QF J sale seats right through to the end of July to give me QF WP!

 

[davidj]

Guys CT is just that, and deal with corporate accounts usually $500k - $1m+ per year. Don't be surprised if they ignore $6k booking requests.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Guys CT is just that, and deal with corporate accounts usually $500k - $1m+ per year. Don't be surprised if they ignore $6k booking requests.

It's not their conditions that's been griped about, it's their lack of even a courtesy email. Doesn't take much and a form email would be fine.

Having said that, CT did get back to me yesterday offering their services and quote "we've identified many areas we can offer you savings". Funny enough, it was yesterday that I contacted Flight Centre who told me FCM is a Flight Centre brand and she'd get them to contact me. FCM didn't, but CT did, so I'm wondering if CT is also a Flight Centre brand.

In any case, they were too late I'm afraid. I had just finished booking all my sale VA fares through to year end, which will see me requal VA WP and then I'll start my requal for QF. I just need QF to run either a DSC promo again, or a decent J sale, sometime before the end of the year (they have one running now, but it's very ordinary).

CT and FCM have just demonstrated to me that they are very unreliable and I wouldn't trust them to be able to manage my bookings in any case. Flight Centre too, is nothing to write home about. I've bought 2 x J saver fares, which can be changed with a $50 fee if bought through VA. Flight Centre tells me the VA fee is $80 to change (incorrect according to the VA website) and then they add another $50 onto that making a change fee of $130. That's just a rort and I'll ensure I don't change them, get my DSCs and then wave Flight Centre goodbye as well.

 

[Jack_OC]

Having said that, CT did get back to me yesterday offering their services and quote "we've identified many areas we can offer you savings". Funny enough, it was yesterday that I contacted Flight Centre who told me FCM is a Flight Centre brand and she'd get them to contact me. FCM didn't, but CT did, so I'm wondering if CT is also a Flight Centre brand.

Yes, they are both Flight Centre brands. In fact, both Corporate Traveller and FCM are operated by the same subsidiary of the Flight Centre Travel Group Limited - they are both trading names of a company called Australian OpCo Pty Ltd.

Contrary to what you might assume based on the name, "Corporate Traveller manages business travel programs for small to medium enterprises", whereas FCM is "FCTG’s flagship global corporate travel business". In other words, FCM caters for big companies, CT caters for smaller ones. Hence the CT SmartFly program is aimed at companies that spend $20-350k per year on airfares, and hence (I would guess) you got a call back from CT rather than FCM.

 

[kamchatsky]

Just to let you know that my flights SYD-CBR return on VA has gotten double SCs (30 + 50) .... I registered, then booked via FCM Travel engine. Will definitely book more now if I can.

 

[sven89]

I booked some flights (Elevate fares) for both my partner and I, unfortunately before registering. I registered us anyway just for the sake of it, flew the segments and have just had our three flights all post double status credits. What was meant to be a 100SC earn for some unknown reason has become 200SC. I booked the flights directly through VA's website, and as I said registered after booking them, so I know I'm not entitled in any way and can't for the life of me figure out why I've had double posted. Only answer I can come up with is a glitch on their end getting confused by this promotion. Waiting for them to vanish at any moment though

 

[Edge]

2 x MEL-SYD-MEL flights I took last week have posted for me. 120 SCs so far, good start to requalification. MEL-PER-MEL this week as well.

 

[djchuckles]

I got double SC 's for a flight booked via FlyBuys Travel - plus 10x FlyBuys points to boot!

 

[Lemon_Party]

Our organisation didn't receive this (to my knowledge) but I saw this thread shortly after booking a trip PER-BNE and return through corporate traveller. Clicked the sign up link, even though the flights had already been booked. My outbound (getaway) earned standard SC's, but return Flexi via MEL earned double SC's.

I used platinum upgrade on the MEL-PER leg, so can't tell if its the corporate traveller promotion or a stuff up at VA IT end that has changed things. Seems strange to not get double on outbound, but to receive on return - so I put it down to using an upgrade confusing VA, but that has never happened before. Plus the BNE-MEL leg remained in Y...