QF Double Status Credits (SC) offer for all :)

[Ansett]

Just booked Syd-Lhr (Qf)-Vie (Ba) rtn in J for Mar / Apr next year. ..easy 1200 SCs just there
ps: this trip will also take me to LTG!

Is this all on QF metal and flight number or on a BA metal and flight number, as to be eligible for the DSC the flight must be on a QF Flight Number and on QF metal with a few exceptions on AA to the US.

 

[maaz]

Thanks - yes we both received the emails and both registered. We are only going to get to Silver but after a recent trip when we sat in the back row or second back row on several flights I realised another of the non financial benefits of some sort of status.

We have 80 SC at the moment and we are going to go PER-MLB-HKG-PER and that will give us both 300 each.

 

[kpc]

Is this all on QF metal and flight number or on a BA metal and flight number, as to be eligible for the DSC the flight must be on a QF Flight Number and on QF metal with a few exceptions on AA to the US.

QF to/ from Lhr; then BA to / from Vie

 

[mviy]

Thanks to this offer I will soon get to PS for the first time. Then other bookings will take me onto WP.

 

[Rugby]

Booked SYD-HKG J return sale fares for 480 SCs each early next year for the two of us. Now to work out where to fly to from HKG, and also plan a little lounge crawl

 

[medhead]

Did you both receive and register for the DSC offer? If so and you enter an eligible QFF number then yes. It will only apply to the flyer who QFF number is entered into the booking. You cannot enter your number for your husband's booking and get DSC's for him

Everyone is eligible to register for this offer. It's one of the Qantas homepage banner ads. They only need to both register for the promo.

 

[KVK]

Snap! Also looking for places to go, MH have some cheap fares around Asia. Vietnam? Sri Lanka? nice dilemma to be in...

Booked SYD-HKG J return sale fares for 480 SCs each early next year for the two of us. Now to work out where to fly to from HKG, and also plan a little lounge crawl

 

[coriander]

Deleted.

Duplicated reply.

 

[sumthinfornuthin]

Actually I don't think that's correct. My understanding is that all PAX in a booking can receive doubles SCs provided they have also registered for the offer.

I agree...............

 

[harvyk]

Registered successfully, received confirmation email, have now booked CBR-SYD-HKG-SYD-CBR and then CBR-BNE-LAX-SEA-JFK-LHR-DXB-SYD-CBR under the double SC offer. My major trips until the end of the year sorted, pure luck how it all came together, esp as I got the HKG flights under the Asia sale which ends today.

 

[medhead]

Registered successfully, received confirmation email, have now booked CBR-SYD-HKG-SYD-CBR and then CBR-BNE-LAX-SEA-JFK-LHR-DXB-SYD-CBR under the double SC offer. My major trips until the end of the year sorted, pure luck how it all came together, esp as I got the HKG flights under the Asia sale which ends today.

Note only Qantas operated will get double. I'll guess LAX-LHR will be standard SC.

 

[exegete]

Quick question for those who might have some experience with this. The T&Cs for this offer state:

If you change or cancel your initial qualifying booking and/or travel is completed outside the promotional period, this bonus offer will not apply.

I need to book a trip but don't know the exact dates yet. I know that Qantas typically regards some booking changes as more significant than other changes.

1. If I book a flexi business ticket, but later change the travel dates (to other dates that are still within the promotional period), will the offer still apply to the booking?

2. If the answer to #1 is "no", is there any impediment to me booking multiple flexi business tickets on several possible dates, and cancelling all but one of them once I know my travel dates? (So far as I can tell cancellation is free and the tickets are fully refundable.)

I'll give them a call to make sure, but would appreciate any stories in the interim.

 

[eminere]

Quick question for those who might have some experience with this. The T&Cs for this offer state:



I need to book a trip but don't know the exact dates yet. I know that Qantas typically regards some booking changes as more significant than other changes.

1. If I book a flexi business ticket, but later change the travel dates (to other dates that are still within the promotional period), will the offer still apply to the booking?

2. If the answer to #1 is "no", is there any impediment to me booking multiple flexi business tickets on several possible dates, and cancelling all but one of them once I know my travel dates? (So far as I can tell cancellation is free and the tickets are fully refundable.)

I'll give them a call to make sure, but would appreciate any stories in the interim.

Your question has already been answered by Red Roo (the QF rep) further up this thread: http://www.australianfrequentflyer....le-status-credits-sc-75580-5.html#post1437863

To answer some of your other questions:

- As long as you’ve made the original new booking between 28 April – 04 May 2016, date changes are permitted after this time for travel until 16 April 2017

 

[exegete]

I overlooked that, thanks eminere!

 

[kermatu]

Not objecting to the offer, but there will be quite a few folk qualifying for WP as a result of this that otherwise wouldn't. Can't see 'the WP is the new Gold' being reversed anytime soon. Given my P1 experience has been underwhelming, this doesn't bode well. Still, I'll probably get LTG quicker through this and then be even more amenable to looking at other airlines.

 

[mviy]

but there will be quite a few folk qualifying for WP as a result of this that otherwise wouldn't

But if you need a double SC offer plus need to do a status run to get WP then you probably aren't flying extremely regularly. It will make some difference but for how long? QANTAS may not do another double SC offer for quite some time.

I could sure do with another one that covers June-July next year, but that's highly unlikely.

QANTAS is probably hoping that users that get a taste for the benefits of a higher status tier will increase their flying to maintain that status.

 

[kermatu]

But if you need a double SC offer plus need to do a status run to get WP then you probably aren't flying extremely regularly. It will make some difference but for how long? QANTAS may not do another double SC offer for quite some time.

I could sure do with another one that covers June-July next year, but that's highly unlikely.

QANTAS is probably hoping that users that get a taste for the benefits of a higher status tier will increase their flying to maintain that status.

12 to 18 months at higher status is long enough for frequent Y travellers or infrequent travellers to add to already overcrowded Dom J lounges, or the F lounges. Absolutely good luck to people who benefit in such a way - no problem at all. I first got WP and then my first P1 year were both as a result of xASAs so I can't talk. But crowded lounges, longer priority boarding and check-in queues etc all diminish the premium experience - so I wonder (speculate) whether long term it does more harm with respect to the more frequent premium pax?

 

[RichardMEL]

I am thinking the numbers of QFF members that take advantage of this offer to the extent that many of us are is relatively small. Sure, your infrequent flyers may think cool go for Silver and that's fine. I am guessing that if you're Gold+ already you fly enough to not really worry about it too much. Sure maybe an extra booking or two to get up to Plat but I expect the numbers to be fairly small, and QF is clearly trying to stimulate both traffic and revenue post their traffic/demand forecasts recently The lowering AUD has softened demand, specially to places like the US and possiubly even to parts of Asia and europe (think of the fairly low rate towards the HKD recently). Plus, local confidence is down, election concerns and whatever are probably also impacting on travel habits. It could well even be that a lot of people simply can't afford these things. The short booking window (as with the recent double points promo) also ensures that the exposure is relatively short in terms of ppeople booking lots and lots of tickets to push them over the line (I mean if you have the financial resources to purchase a lot then you'd probably be flying anyway and prob on QF if status is important to you). I'd say the bean counters have clearly decided it's a risk worth taking and the return of *a small amount* of incremental ongoing revenue from those who reach Gold and higher and want to keep it as time goes on is probably also worth it. Of course if they can also hook some VA flyers back so much the better since that's potential new customers being drawn in.

I do agree re crowded J lounges and F but probably over the course of an average day the incremental impact is probably in the line of single digit numbers, if that.

and if those pax go back to not flying too much, or BFOD, or whatever then things will return to the status quo.

It does seem that QF is thinking in the shorter term though to stimulate traffic and revenue for sure.

my 2 cents.

 

[kermatu]

Agree the short window does probably limit it. But the same bean counters at some point next year may tally up the numbers at WP, SG etc and determine that the airline can't afford to offer benefit X to a particular level. Just a risk.

It has I'm sure stimulated short term demand or at least a bring-forward. I know a few families who have booked on QF some holidays earlier than otherwise as a result of the offer - purely so one member will benefit from lounge access when travelling for work. And I have chosen one long-haul trip on QF that I was leaning toward Cathay. So it is not a bad thing at all.

Some short term JASAs and FASAs would also hit the spot with regular premium pax!

 

[toofastdriving]

Rookie question - but I had a flight quoted through flight centre prior to the start of this promotion and it appeared in my FF login as a 'booking' as it was being held. It was paid for through flight centre on the 29th - inside the promo period. Any way to check what date Qantas deemed this to be 'booked'?

**Fingers crossed they extend this promo - would love to book some extra flights in the next week