Qantas Gift Vouchers Promotion 5 points per dollar December 2016

[get me outta here]

The name of whichever pax you are booking for is inserted at the end. So, it will start off showing your or whomever's name the gv is in, till you get to the end and change it to the traveller. As the name implies you can gift it to others.

Just for my info.
If I buy the gift card say in the name of my wife.
Can she then buy tickets as per the rules for herself only or can she use the vouchers to buy tickets for her friends or even me ?

 

[Hvr]

Well have purchased and redeemed my first voucher for this promotion.

The $500 voucher came through very quickly and was utilised for a week in Bangkok in February..

 

[Spongbob]

Is this a drop (from previous Xmas QF voucher offers) from 10 points per $ spend to now only 5 points per $ spend?

 

[Hvr]

Is this a drop (from previous Xmas QF voucher offers) from 10 points per $ spend to now only 5 points per $ spend?

Last year was also five points per dollar. Prior to 2015 it was 10 points per dollar.

 

[ozflier]

Ta for that

The name of whichever pax you are booking for is inserted at the end. So, it will start off showing your or whomever's name the gv is in, till you get to the end and change it to the traveller. As the name implies you can gift it to others.

 

[Haplo]

Does anyone have experience how travel insurance would work if you purchase the voucher on a credit card and then use that voucher along with the same card to purchase fare? The last thing you want is for the insurance to deny you insurance because you didnt pay the full fare on the card.

 

[serfty]

Travel insurance? ... if in doubt don't rely in your CC ...

 

[opusman]

Does anyone have experience how travel insurance would work if you purchase the voucher on a credit card and then use that voucher along with the same card to purchase fare? The last thing you want is for the insurance to deny you insurance because you didnt pay the full fare on the card.

It just shows up as Qantas spend, no way to distinguish it (on the CC statement) between buying a flight and buying a voucher.

(Same reason the Amex offer pays out on it, presumably)

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Does anyone have experience how travel insurance would work if you purchase the voucher on a credit card and then use that voucher along with the same card to purchase fare? The last thing you want is for the insurance to deny you insurance because you didnt pay the full fare on the card.

Well that is an interesting question that I cannot answer.

However there are bank issued Amex's which are fairly easy to activate for INTERNATONAL TI in that the spend required is quite small, and is not the total trip. This varies on eachCard/Bank and may be from $250 to $500 pp in the travelling party on travel expenses such hotels, tours, flights, flight taxes etc. Some also require you to have a return trip (ie flight) to also be part of what activates the TI. Note that the wording is such that the flight can be redeemed by points. So flights from vouchers would be covered in his scenario. NAB has very low barriers. so basically prepay fora hotel night or so and you are covered.

Note that you should ensure that you meet the "activation" conditions early on so that you are covered for cancellation benefits.

 

[NZflygirl]

Feel like an idiot, just booked qantas flights and should have bought vouchers first. But maybe there is a glitch.

Question: the e-ticket you receive for the booking, does it show the full cost of the flight? Or does it say voucher + remainder. Important for work purposes really.

 

[levelnine]

Feel like an idiot, just booked qantas flights and should have bought vouchers first. But maybe there is a glitch.

Question: the e-ticket you receive for the booking, does it show the full cost of the flight? Or does it say voucher + remainder. Important for work purposes really.

This is something that is important for me too.

From my previous experience with vouchers, it doesn't show the full cost of the flight on the e-ticket. Only the amount paid at the time of booking. Thus, if you paid $100 of a $250 flight with a voucher, the e-ticket would only show a charge of $150.

What I'm thinking of doing is taking a screenshot of the booking on the regular website where it shows the full price at the date and time of the booking and using that for reimbursement purposes. Depends on how strict your work is as to whether they will accept that.

 

[get me outta here]

How long is it taking to get the AMEX refund?

 

[NZflygirl]

This is something that is important for me too.

From my previous experience with vouchers, it doesn't show the full cost of the flight on the e-ticket. Only the amount paid at the time of booking. Thus, if you paid $100 of a $250 flight with a voucher, the e-ticket would only show a charge of $150.

What I'm thinking of doing is taking a screenshot of the booking on the regular website where it shows the full price at the date and time of the booking and using that for reimbursement purposes. Depends on how strict your work is as to whether they will accept that.

Hmmm my gut feeling is my work will consider that complicated.

 

[JohnK]

Question: the e-ticket you receive for the booking, does it show the full cost of the flight? Or does it say voucher + remainder. Important for work purposes really.

The e-ticket itinerary of each residual voucher has the ticket total at the top.

e.g. I purchased flight for early January for $159.01 and that's shown at top. The payment information shows amount of $108.01 on Visa which would suggest I had residual value of $51. The receipt details include the amount paid only but the GST of $14.46 looks to be the GST of the total ticket price.

I think you should be ok to use gift vouchers to book work travel.

 

[levelnine]

The e-ticket itinerary of each residual voucher has the ticket total at the top.

Good pick up. Just went back and saw that. Could make it a bit confusing for the finance people with the different figures, but at least it has the total somewhere.

 

[NZflygirl]

The e-ticket itinerary of each residual voucher has the ticket total at the top.

e.g. I purchased flight for early January for $159.01 and that's shown at top. The payment information shows amount of $108.01 on Visa which would suggest I had residual value of $51. The receipt details include the amount paid only but the GST of $14.46 looks to be the GST of the total ticket price.

I think you should be ok to use gift vouchers to book work travel.

Cheers for this. I may try it on a personal booking first then go from there. Still have a work travel banked voucher to use from cancelling a flight.

 

[JohnK]

Good pick up. Just went back and saw that. Could make it a bit confusing for the finance people with the different figures, but at least it has the total somewhere.

The total including GST should be enough for finance?

 

[pyffii]

Amex posted by $150 credit overnight...A very happy camper !!!

 

[attimo69]

DO NOT BUY THESE VOUCHERS! (in my opinion)
I was previously stung with these vouchers. you do get the bonus points when you buy them, but then when you go to use them, you are not given ALL the flight options. To use vouchers, you have to "log in" with the voucher and THEN search. If you do simultaneous identical searches on a different browser (looks to Qantas like someone else searching) then for real money you get the options of the cheapest flights, but when using vouchers you DO NOT GET SHOWN the cheapest flights. This means that Qantas is able to sell more expensive seats that it would do if people were using their own real money.
I made a complaint to the ACCC about this, but no-one ever followed up.
I my opinion it's a rort and people should know.
Cheers

 

[eminere]

Sorry attimo69, but I have used vouchers dozens and dozens of times and I have experienced literally zero of the issues you raise.