Qantas' New Flight Reward Finder Tool

[opusman]

At least it easily shows the lack of QF premium seats on offer

Yes makes it really clear how without Emirates there'd be basically no premium award seats at all.

 

[MelbFlyer]

As good as this new tool is, it is a bit of an own goal for Qantas as it very quickly highlights how little international reward seat inventory they release. If they care or not is to be seen.

Or, it could highlight that they're all already snapped up and / or Qantas can then be like "our frequent flyer program is great and our members love being able to use points to redeem award seats on our flights.." etc.

 

[madrooster]

So they just bought out a scraping tool and it's not even linked to the actual live availability via a login?

Pretty slack effort from Qantas.

Tell me you don't understand system resource management without telling me you don't...

Gyoza and others are using the API backend of what drives the QF website. It's not what I'd call screen scraping. These third parties have simply been a lot smarter about how they use aggregate data.

These region by region searches are very resource intensive to be doing live GDS searches for each and every search triggered by a user which is why they don't do it.

 

[DejaBrew]

Or, it could highlight that they're all already snapped up and / or Qantas can then be like "our frequent flyer program is great and our members love being able to use points to redeem award seats on our flights.." etc.

Perhaps, but the sheer lack of CR on QF metal (vs partner flights) is a sight to behold. A quick look shows me that QF metal appears only 18 times in the first 80 listings of Australia to Anywhere in the world direct (i.e. 22.5%). Take out QF metal to NZ and Pacific Island destinations and that leaves you with 6 out of 68 listings (i.e. 8.8%). Given we're talking anywhere in Australia to Anywhere in the world direct, that isn't much of an offering. Not that this should be surprising to anyone.

 

[aikman]

It's not as if we didn't already all know that there is little to no QF CRs available.

 

[DejaBrew]

Just got the formal email re: the new tool.....

 

[levelnine]

Tell me you don't understand system resource management without telling me you don't...

Gyoza and others are using the API backend of what drives the QF website. It's not what I'd call screen scraping. These third parties have simply been a lot smarter about how they use aggregate data.

These region by region searches are very resource intensive to be doing live GDS searches for each and every search triggered by a user which is why they don't do it.

To be fair to the original poster, they are broadly correct. All Qantas did is contract with Gyoza, which is basically a 'scraping tool' (scraping doesn't necessarily mean screen scraping), to slap their branding on their tool.