New Qantas promos including double status credits (book by 3/9/25; travel 4/9/25 until 22/8/26)

[RooFlyer]

All in a day's work for The National Carrier, @Seat0B

 

[Seat0B]

I hit LTG on my 30th birthday.
Now in my 40's, I find LTG useful, although I hold multiple, fully-earned top-tier status with other airlines.
I don't live in Australia, and when I do fly oneworld carriers - QF picks up accrual revenue. So it's a case of - QF earns something rather than nothing. I've spent a fortune with QF over the years, and while I find it difficult to fly with them not based in Aus, they pickup a few bucks when I fly other OW carriers.

I have raised the issue with QF Loyalty many times over the years of LTG needing to be fixed.
All they need to do is give LTG members 600 SC to start the year, not counting those towards lifetime status, and boom - everything is fixed.

The perceived 'loss' on Platinums+ who also hold LTG getting a free kick each year (the perceived loss is in the assumption these members will fly 600SC less) is mitigated by kicking in the 600 SC starting credits after holding LTG for 10-years. Let's call it, Lifetime Gold Plus, and it's then a benefit of LTG+.

@trippin_the_rift for QF CEO!

 

[Seat0B]

Forgot to mention that as PC member I will at least get some SC for the journey. And as previously mentioned with a 31 Mar membership year and a 28 Mar wedding, this trip was always poorly timed for me.

 

[Seat0B]

Wooo that s insine. You are like: "shut up and take my money" and they cant even do that. Hopeless Qantas.

I thought the infamous CBR-SYD connection to international leg was just a problem for CR, surprise it does apply to cash fare. I have heard too many times "there is no flight between SYD-CBR 11 months out" too many times. Still unclear why, but Hobart always manages those.

It is totally insane. I can’t imagine any other business making it that hard to spend big bucks. And they will probably never know that this happened and they lost guaranteed revenue because of it. If I thought anyone cared, I might drop them an email, but I’ve wasted enough time on them on my holiday.

And Hobart was absolutely useless today - they were the ones who asked why I wanted to put Mr Seat 0A’s FF no in the booking, and also who commented that the codeshare was not a QF flight and so could not be booked. I was very very disappointed with this absolutely ignorant service. I kind of expect it from overseas call centres (not racist, just conditioned by my experiences) but Hobart has never let me down. And what kind of airline has a web site that can’t withstand the stress of a DSC promotion that they initiated??

I have WP locked in until March 2026 and will requal on normal SC for planned travel until March 2027. Got LTG about 12 years ago, will never make LTP, and have now halved my stash of QF points, so I feel a genuine airline liberation coming on in the next couple of years.

I decided to burn the points as I have never been able to use them for long haul flights I want - last use for international was in 2017 - and I have poor results getting WP seat releases for international off peak travel, so they are pretty useless for me, other than domestic J rewards. And I still have a good stash for that.

 

[blackcat20]

And Hobart was absolutely useless today - they were the ones who asked why I wanted to put Mr Seat 0A’s FF no in the booking, and also who commented that the codeshare was not a QF flight and so could not be booked. I was very very disappointed with this absolutely ignorant service. I kind of expect it from overseas call centres (not racist, just conditioned by my experiences) but Hobart has never let me down. And what kind of airline has a web site that can’t withstand the stress of a DSC promotion that they initiated??

I tried to change over the frequent flyer number against a booking last week (from QF to BA) and they told me I needed to cancel and rebook to do that

 

[Kerrodt]

I’m looking at flying Perth-Tokyo via Syd/Mel in J in early March and am getting a price over $7k. Does anyone know how much this usually costs during sales (it’s outside school holidays)?

Not a direct comparison, but in February this year I booked MEL-SYD-HND return in J for flights taken in April/May this year. This was booked during a sale period and I paid $5,300.

YMMV given you are originating in Perth.

 

[PERLHR]

Not a direct comparison, but in February this year I booked MEL-SYD-HND return in J for flights taken in April/May this year. This was booked during a sale period and I paid $5,300.

YMMV given you are originating in Perth.

Funnily enough also doing TYO early March ex PER (only for 5 days). Dumped QF rapidly despite any "enhancement" they want to offer as bottom line figure shocking. . 3.5 K business in MH and 4.2K SQ. Know who I am flying with!!

 

[Vic]

Hard call now. Do I take the double sc from Qantas on a couple of trivial domestic flights, or the $25 birthday present from Virgin business flyer?
lol

 

[Dvg]

It is totally insane. I can’t imagine any other business making it that hard to spend big bucks. And they will probably never know that this happened and they lost guaranteed revenue because of it. If I thought anyone cared, I might drop them an email, but I’ve wasted enough time on them on my holiday.

And Hobart was absolutely useless today - they were the ones who asked why I wanted to put Mr Seat 0A’s FF no in the booking, and also who commented that the codeshare was not a QF flight and so could not be booked. I was very very disappointed with this absolutely ignorant service. I kind of expect it from overseas call centres (not racist, just conditioned by my experiences) but Hobart has never let me down. And what kind of airline has a web site that can’t withstand the stress of a DSC promotion that they initiated??

I have WP locked in until March 2026 and will requal on normal SC for planned travel until March 2027. Got LTG about 12 years ago, will never make LTP, and have now halved my stash of QF points, so I feel a genuine airline liberation coming on in the next couple of years.

I decided to burn the points as I have never been able to use them for long haul flights I want - last use for international was in 2017 - and I have poor results getting WP seat releases for international off peak travel, so they are pretty useless for me, other than domestic J rewards. And I still have a good stash for that.

“genuine airline liberation “…….. love it! It’s what I aspire to also

 

[mviy]

I have WP locked in until March 2026 and will requal on normal SC for planned travel until March 2027. Got LTG about 12 years ago, will never make LTP, and have now halved my stash of QF points, so I feel a genuine airline liberation coming on in the next couple of years.

I decided to burn the points as I have never been able to use them for long haul flights I want - last use for international was in 2017 - and I have poor results getting WP seat releases for international off peak travel, so they are pretty useless for me, other than domestic J rewards. And I still have a good stash for that.

I will likely switch to trying to trying to use up my points too once I reach LTG, perhaps during DSC promos if I can keep up Points Club.

I haven’t had any success getting seats released as yet. I would want them released on flights to/from LHR which is one of the hardest routes to get them on.

I still put in upgrade requests when flying QF internationally and have had mixed success with that despite requesting upgrades as late as at the gate.

Flying Flex Y return to LHR on DSC I can get as many SC as one would get flying J on standard SC.

 

[RooFlyer]

And Hobart was absolutely useless today - they were the ones who asked why I wanted to put Mr Seat 0A’s FF no in the booking, and also who commented that the codeshare was not a QF flight and so could not be booked. I was very very disappointed with this absolutely ignorant service. I kind of expect it from overseas call centres (not racist, just conditioned by my experiences) but Hobart has never let me down. And what kind of airline has a web site that can’t withstand the stress of a DSC promotion that they initiated??

that’s a very big concern. Although, now that WPs doen't get Hobart, or rarely, maybe it’s not such a big thing for me.

What a bunch of management plonkers.

 

[clifford]

I tried to change over the frequent flyer number against a booking last week (from QF to BA) and they told me I needed to cancel and rebook to do that

I made a BA Avios redemption booking on the BA website a few days ago. Of course, it won't let you enter a non-BA FF No.

So the solution is to phone the BAC call centre in Newcastle UK and ask the nice agent to enter your QF FF No. No problems, all done with an (imagined) smile in a couple of minutes. And the wait time for my call to be answered was only a few minutes.

Qantas could learn something from this (but won't as it'doesn't like to spend any money to help its customers).

 

[Flyerwin]

MFW I saw that Qantas has done a u-turn on SC now applying to LTP…