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

[Malus]

I'm surprised you didn't get moved to the direct CHC-MEL service

It was too late, the BNE-MEL cancellation came through while when we were just about to push back at CHC. Them's the breaks!

 

[Falcs]

Definitely looking at the wrong type of movies

Yes. After reading enough posts on DSC threads I realised that people can change their movie option and are in fact not being forced to watch Daddio

 

[goosh]

Got my first screening for the August / September 2025 edition of Fight Club at 5pm this afternoon. Will report back when the DSC land into the account.

**** Original SC of 10 posted while in the air..

Let's see how long for the DSC

Update - still waiting on DSC following my screenings of Fight Club.

FLIGHT 1:
Saturday 6 September / MEL - SYD / 10 SC posted while in the air / DSC still waiting (Day 5 currently)

FLIGHT 2:
Monday 8 September / SYD - BNE / 10 SC posted while in the air / DSC still waiting (Day 3 currently)

 

[XavierP]

Is this wait normal? I mean, from the past experiences, how long does it usually take for it to appear? Or just varies every time/person?

 

[33kft]

Is this wait normal? I mean, from the past experiences, how long does it usually take for it to appear? Or just varies every time/person?

first posting takes a while, tends to be 24 hours later after that

 

[DejaBrew]

Is this wait normal? I mean, from the past experiences, how long does it usually take for it to appear? Or just varies every time/person?

As suggested by @33kft, the initial batch of DSC crediting (i.e. for people who are taking eligible flights early on in the promo travel window) can take a while - sometimes upwards of a few weeks. However, once the DSCs starts posting for those initial flights, they generally start to flow for everyone else within a couple of business days after an eligible segment has been flown.

Important to note a couple of things -:

1. There is no hard and fast rule on timing (as we've seen with DSC postings for some of us who took recent flights earning DSC from prior promos).
2. Qantas backdates the DSC based on when you flew the eligible segment. Consequently, eligible segments flown late in your member year may earn standard SC in the same member year, with the DSC posting in the new member year (albeit backdated accordingly). This means that you can't count DSC earnt from your prior member year towards earning/retaining status in your new member year, and it also means that Qantas will adjust your status accordingly based on what you actually earned in your prior member year (inclusive of backdated DSC).

 

[elanshin]

Im mildly curious, has anyone had a situation where they've booked to see a session, but it ran into technical difficulties and you had to move to a competing cinema. Has anyone been able to successfully talk to the ticketing agency for their original viewing to be honoured in full?

(Im saying this sitting here at Pier F having just dodged this by voluntarily moving myself and my original session has gone tech pretty badly).

 

[DejaBrew]

Im mildly curious, has anyone had a situation where they've booked to see a session, but it ran into technical difficulties and you had to move to a competing cinema. Has anyone been able to successfully talk to the ticketing agency for their original viewing to be honoured in full?

As in being forced to move from an Event Cinemas complex to a Hoyts or Dendy? Presumably you could get an OWC (i.e. "Original Watching Credit"), but it's probably an awkward conversation that you may not really want to have - especially if your original Event Cinemas session time was discreetly altered.

 

[justinbrett]

Im mildly curious, has anyone had a situation where they've booked to see a session, but it ran into technical difficulties and you had to move to a competing cinema. Has anyone been able to successfully talk to the ticketing agency for their original viewing to be honoured in full?

(Im saying this sitting here at Pier F having just dodged this by voluntarily moving myself and my original session has gone tech pretty badly).

My advice I got was if you had a valid ticket to the original session you can get it honoured in full.

However, if you any cheat mode activated be aware they will check the original booking with a fine tooth comb and if any loopholes where used, you may be out of luck.

 

[DejaBrew]

However, if you any cheat mode activated be aware they will check the original booking with a fine tooth comb and if any loopholes where used, you may be out of luck.

You might be safe if you used IDDQD....

IYKYK

 

[SYD]

My advice I got was if you had a valid ticket to the original session you can get it honoured in full.

However, if you any cheat mode activated be aware they will check the original booking with a fine tooth comb and if any loopholes where used, you may be out of luck.

We recently had had an involuntary downgrade from Gold class to regular seating for a foreign film that had been rebooked from an Outback drama. But the email advising of the change stated that we’d be credited as per ticket class paid for. Which we were - unfortunately the DSCs posted before the system caught up. The base points and SCs were adjusted automatically but the DSC posted as whY. A quick email with eTicket and all sorted o/n.

 

[elanshin]

As in being forced to move from an Event Cinemas complex to a Hoyts or Dendy? Presumably you could get an OWC (i.e. "Original Watching Credit"), but it's probably an awkward conversation that you may not really want to have - especially if your original Event Cinemas session time was discreetly altered.

Yes its as you put it. I do know that once i had a normal session that needed manual original viewing help, it was automatically provided later, however the other 3 normal sessions it was not. So I'm not sure what triggers an automated approval.

 

[DejaBrew]

We recently had had an involuntary downgrade from Gold class to regular seating for a foreign film that had been rebooked from an Outback drama.