Heads up about program changes

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Princess Fiona said:
Ok, time for another rant.
Booking some travel for next year and being the dutiful QFF that I am I try my best to find a great fare on QF to where I want to go.
SYD-LAX-JFK in J. Sounds good, the early bird specials are on happy days :)
Calculator shows 280 SC SYD-JFK.
I decide I would like a stopover in LAX before continuing on QF to JFK. SYD-xLAX-JFK is 260 SC :!:

How can this be? Who is writing these complicated tables? How on earth can a stopover reduce the SC earn and if it does what is the logic behind it? If it's designed to reward travel on QF then it's likely to have exactly the opposite effect :evil:
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Hope you have an invite from Lesley and you can ask her directly
 
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dajop said:
Well actually soon SYD-JFK will cease to exist so the earn will be the same irrespective of whether you stopover or not as a flight change via LAX will be necessary! The quirk will shift to BNE -JFK bound travellers.
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It's funny. The new tables fixed the LHR quirk, but broke the JFK on one, albeit with BNE pax only it is a much smaller subset
 
dajop said:
Well actually soon SYD-JFK will cease to exist so the earn will be the same irrespective of whether you stopover or not as a flight change via LAX will be necessary! The quirk will shift to BNE -JFK bound travellers.
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Isn't the flight number staying the same SYD-JFK regardless of the equipment change? I may have missed the memo on this one...
 
QF15 was the BNE-LAX flight mum took a couple of weeks. Sounds like that gets extended to JFK.
 
Seems like Qantas IT monkeys have been at it again, although in a good way this time :)


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Only problem is this booking was made in late September :rolleyes:
 
opusman said:
Ahhhh yes, that could explain it - I did use a voucher as part payment. So I guess it used the voucher issue date rather than the booking date.
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That's the conclusion I came to regarding some bookings I made using "Xmas" vouchers.
 
One thing I would like clarified is Aus-DFW flights.

In Discount Y

SYD-West Coast US: 45
SYD-East Coast US: 70

SYD-DFW: 45

Last time I checked, DFW was smack bang in the middle of the US and previously attracted more SCs then LAX flights (which is fair considering the DFW Surcharge and extra distance).

Would appreciate some clarification as this is misleading from my POV.
 
I'd noticed this. Given Sydney to DFW is the longest non-stop flight in the world, you'd think that it would be eligible for maximum points and SC.
 
Ari Gold said:
One thing I would like clarified is Aus-DFW flights.

In Discount Y

SYD-West Coast US: 45
SYD-East Coast US: 70

SYD-DFW: 45

Last time I checked, DFW was smack bang in the middle of the US and previously attracted more SCs then LAX flights (which is fair considering the DFW Surcharge and extra distance).

Would appreciate some clarification as this is misleading from my POV.
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When the Simpler and Fairer[SUP]TM[/SUP] was announced, the tables showed DFW as west coast USA. The were only two US zones: E & W coasts; nothing was described as 'central USA'.
 
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JohnM said:
When the Simpler and Fairer[SUP]TM[/SUP] was announced, the tables showed DFW as west coast USA. The were only two US zones: E & W coasts; nothing was described as 'central USA'.
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The goalposts are ever moving using the Simpler and Fairer™ approach.
 
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