Qantas "Choose your reward" Promo. Select from Double Status Credits OR Double Points [book 25/3/22-1/4/22]

[Bolt]

If I make a new booking through the Amex travel web site using my Amex card $450 travel voucher, would I qualify for the DSC?

 

[justin23]

however if one's anniversary date is say July, then obviously one can book DSC qualifying flights into their next membership year that are beyond the rollover amount.

yes this is exactly what I'm doing with a July date. I already have 390SC's coming in October-November. So I'll use this to get to 600 for my 2023/24 gold status. maybe more as I'm not LTG

 

[sqrt()]

Sydney to New Zealand with one stop in business class is $1072 in June. Tempted...

I booked 29/4 - 02/05. Arrival in AKL is 23:55 and departure 06:00 with no other options.

 

[RichardMEL]

If I make a new booking through the Amex travel web site using my Amex card $450 travel voucher, would I qualify for the DSC?

yes

 

[Bolt]

I couldn't find anything in the terms and conditions regarding lifetime status credits. Is it safe to assume that the double status credits will contribute to LTSC as well?

 

[TheInsider]

I couldn't find anything in the terms and conditions regarding lifetime status credits. Is it safe to assume that the double status credits will contribute to LTSC as well?

yes

 

[Seat0B]

Anyone choosing the double points?

Yeah. The missus will.
Sucks Qantas doesn't do family pooling

Yep Mr Seat 0A will also choose double points as he has LTG and will never again make Platinum, let alone LTP. So he may as well get as many points as he can. I will take the DSC and retain my Platinum, so really, best of both worlds for the Seat family.

 

[CaptainCurtis]

Does this apply to SC's earned on QFF awards for Points Club members?

Good news, Point Hacks have said the following on their facebook page..

We've confirmed with Qantas that Points Club and Points Club Plus members will earn Double Status Credits on reward seat fares if booked before 1 April

 

[mviy]

Will need to look into the feasibility of regaining Platinum. Wonderful to have this offer. I’d like to get good pricing for J return to LHR in the middle of the year, but I may be dreaming.

 

[Kendall Roy]

I booked 29/4 - 02/05. Arrival in AKL is 23:55 and departure 06:00 with no other options.

Any good benches to sleep on at AKL?

 

[Ansett]

Any good benches to sleep on at AKL?

Nope better off heading out and across the road to the Bar. lol

 

[mviy]

Hmmm on the rough dates I need to travel mid year the return J flights are very expensive on QF metal. Going EK metal wouldn't get the DSC to justify the cost. Looking for about ~$8-9k for return J to LHR from MEL (possibly indirect via SYD) on QF metal.

 

[maia200]

The only thing that worries me about the email link was that I had registered and it announced success without being logged in. The links might be member specific.

Try again on the website or your mobile and you'll get another email probably

 

[newbuyer1976]

Ah of course he launches it the day after i complete my milk run of Australia. Grrr

 

[Bolt]

It's tough to have to choose between status credits and points, because then by making a choice, it costs you the other choice. Do the maths. If you do DSC BNE-SYD-CHC return you get either 240SC extra or 12500QFP extra if you're platinum. So that's 52 QF points per SC.

I want to choose both....

 

[AIRwin]

Any good benches to sleep on at AKL?

Been there done that

 

[Kendall Roy]

Been there done that

Enlighten me, I'm seriously considering it

 

[AIRwin]

Enlighten me, I'm seriously considering it

It was off a TPE-HKG-SYD-AKL flight on my way back to BNE (the check-in ladies in TPE couldn't understand why I didn't fly direct)... I remember arriving after the long journey and looking for a bench in the check-in hall I could lie down on for the rest of the night, but I wasn't the only one sleeping at the airport!

 

[Vic]

So can anyone interpret this part of the T&Cs for me (my bolding):

Eligible Flights include: Australian Domestic Qantas operated flights booked between 21 May 2020 and 30 April 2022, for travel between 12 June 2020 and 30 April 2022. Trans-Tasman Qantas operated flights booked between 15 October 2020 and 30 June 2022, for travel between 16 October 2020 and 31 December 2022. International Qantas operated flights booked between 25 February 2021 and 30 June 2022, for travel between 1 November 2021 and 31 December 2022. To change your travel date, simply visit Manage bookingOpens external site to change your flight before your scheduled date of departure and select a new date within 12 months of your original booking date and the change fee will be waived. A fare difference may apply. For all changes your applicable Fare RulesOpens external site and the Qantas Conditions of CarriageOpens external site apply.

Don't the first 2 boldings mean that existing bookings (made since May/June 2020) will qualify for the promo, as long as the flights are taken within the specified window?

And doesn't the third bolding mean that you can change the dates of existing bookings, to now fly within the qualifying window and so qualify?

As best I can make out that is irrelevant to this promo. I still havn't found which part of the page that condition applies but if you look at the three steps at the top of the page and click on the footnote marker, none of them direct to that condition.

Post automatically merged: Mar 25, 2022

I clarified this with Qantas, and they told me that only bookings with a Point of Origin in Australia are eligible to earn double points/status credits with this offer.

This seems like a limitation that shouldn't be buried deep within the fine print with vague wording. But there you go.

Yep, and this matches the case with pre-covid promos. Origin in Australia.
As background, it used to be possible to book one-ways trans-tasman and get cheaper pricing on the flights departing NZ.

 

[justin23]

Enlighten me, I'm seriously considering it

I arrived early one morning for that flight and the lounge didn't open until 5am from memory and I was through checkin at about 4:15. That was torture, don't know how people ever manage to sleep in an airport!