Qantas to release thousands of Classic Reward seats in Y, PE, J, F on 24 Feb 2023 around 11am

[xabialonso]

Why did I expect a smooth experience?

 

[exLXCXFF]

Q(U)antas not match-fit for tomorrow???

As I predicted last night...

 

[enemsea]

yep, the 500 error messages for me too

 

[Uncharted6264]

Making me feel real good about my job security as a software engineer right now, always more work to be done obviously

 

[bmatth]

yep, the 500 error messages for me too

Also me ... sigh ...

 

[Spizz]

Just saw a whole lot of First Class before it died.

 

[Big John]

500 error messages for me too.

 

[CorporateFlyerMEL]

could they spend some of the $1b on IT?

 

[Guvner]

Making me feel real good about my job security as a software engineer right now, always more work to be done obviously

I doubt one suitably qualified software engineer has ever worked at Qantas.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

Getting 500 error message when searching for award flights between Sydney and Orchard Field (ORD) in Chicago.

 

[MelbFlyer]

Feel sorry for those who have no idea about this sale and are just looking for normal cash fares (ie. don't care about points, aren't QFF members etc), and have to deal with the website crashing.

 

[I love to travel]

They are clearly subscribing to any publicity is good publicity

 

[DrGear]

I doubt one suitably qualified software engineer has ever worked at Qantas.

Hey, hey, come on now.

They hired them once in the early 90s and are still using that system to this very day, refusing to ever update it.

 

[nic0]

Pretty piss poor, yet no surprise whatsoever. I'm getting access denied now.

 

[SydneySwan]

could they spend some of the $1b on IT?

No it is quarantined for AJ's bonus.

 

[pjm99au]

Wait for the PR release spinning how popular QF is that its FF’ers crashed their website. The cynic in me says the website issues are all part of the marketing plan.

 

[xabialonso]

They are clearly subscribing to any publicity is good publicity

The Qantas marketing department will spin this debacle with a well-timed positive press release on Monday, no doubt about that.

 

[drmatte]

The saddest part is how completely predictable this was.

 

[Guvner]

Just waiting for their Windows 2000 server to re-boot and they should be good to go.

 

[Lynda2475]

And all these errors are going to result in more work for manual ticketing for the partially processed, and given the wait time is already over a week for manual ticketing, lots of stressful waiting ahead for lots of people.

They really ought to have cleared their backlogs before running this promo.