Renato1
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Back in 2005 we flew to London, Paris, Rome, Venice and home using Qantas Frequent Flyer points.
Back in 2009 we flew to Rome, Madrid, Venice, Hong Kong and home using the QFF points.
My memory from back then was the number of points needed was 110,000 to 120,000 points each for a return trip to London.
So today I thought I'd check what Qantas FF points gets you nowadays, and checked the return trip to London. The number of points was 128,000 each, which was okay - everything costs a little more nowadays.
But the fees, taxes and carrier charges came to $1878.84 for the both of us. This really surprised me, that's a lot of money, and I don't remember paying anything like that amount on my last two trips. That amount is dearer than what I was quoted for a return trip for one to Venice with Emirates on my next trip. I'm pretty sure I'd remember such poor value had it been the case back then.
So is my memory inaccurate, or have those fees blown through the roof in recent years?
While I was mucking around at the Qantas FF site, I also noticed that it costs $460 to buy 15,000 top up points, and that I can then go and spend those 15,000 points to buy a $100 Myer Gift card.
There seems to be a deficit in value there.
Regards,
Renato
Back in 2009 we flew to Rome, Madrid, Venice, Hong Kong and home using the QFF points.
My memory from back then was the number of points needed was 110,000 to 120,000 points each for a return trip to London.
So today I thought I'd check what Qantas FF points gets you nowadays, and checked the return trip to London. The number of points was 128,000 each, which was okay - everything costs a little more nowadays.
But the fees, taxes and carrier charges came to $1878.84 for the both of us. This really surprised me, that's a lot of money, and I don't remember paying anything like that amount on my last two trips. That amount is dearer than what I was quoted for a return trip for one to Venice with Emirates on my next trip. I'm pretty sure I'd remember such poor value had it been the case back then.
So is my memory inaccurate, or have those fees blown through the roof in recent years?
While I was mucking around at the Qantas FF site, I also noticed that it costs $460 to buy 15,000 top up points, and that I can then go and spend those 15,000 points to buy a $100 Myer Gift card.
There seems to be a deficit in value there.
Regards,
Renato
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