Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related?

[laurawing]

I've been monitoring a flight (reward seat points + pay and normal price) between Melbourne and Adelaide for the last few days and between yesterday and today it went from 9800 or 6300 $19.95 to 12600 or 9300 or $26.95. It's not an availability issue and I'm not just looking at one particular flight, all of the flights on the day have gone up to a base 12600 where yesterday the cheapest base was 8900. The actual normal seat price has not increased from yesterday. I wish I had a screen shot from yesterday! What has happened? This is the first time I have logged in to the new way of booking where it asked you to sign in immediately. Has anyone else noticed this massive increase in point cost for a Reward seat?

Cheers!

 

[Warks]

Re: Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related

I just tried to log in and it said "Unfortunately this request cannot be processed" - :headbang:
So I can't help you but I recently looked at some reward flights and wrote down the points etc so may be able to check when they let me back in!

 

[robd]

Re: Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related

I've been monitoring a flight (reward seat points + pay and normal price) between Melbourne and Adelaide for the last few days and between yesterday and today it went from 9800 or 6300 $19.95 to 12600 or 9300 or $26.95. It's not an availability issue and I'm not just looking at one particular flight, all of the flights on the day have gone up to a base 12600 where yesterday the cheapest base was 8900. The actual normal seat price has not increased from yesterday. I wish I had a screen shot from yesterday! What has happened? This is the first time I have logged in to the new way of booking where it asked you to sign in immediately. Has anyone else noticed this massive increase in point cost for a Reward seat?

Cheers!

I just had a quick look and can still availability ADL-MEL 8900 or 6900 $15.97 and MEL-ADL 9300 or 6900 $19.16. Are you looking at a public/school holiday time perhaps?

There is no need to log in to check redemptions. Just put the details in and scroll down a bit.

 

[laurawing]

Re: Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related

OMG, in the time that I wrote this, the point costs have gone back to 9300 (i meant 9300 not 9800 above) or 6300 $19.16 (sorry I couldn't remember perfectly). Lucky I still have a screen shot from 15 min ago showing the 12600 point cost from the web site. I've also got a screen shot of the 'new' improved yesterday cost from a few min ago. WHAT IS GOING ON? Maybe I should book it fast before the price goes up again. I hope I did these attachments right.

 

[robd]

Re: Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related

Do it whilst you can. Sometimes they even disappear altogether. Fun and games atm.

 

[Mackey]

Re: Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related

The top screenshot is an Any Seat Award (which are more expensive) and the bottom is a Classic Award.

 

[laurawing]

Re: Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related

The top screenshot is an Any Seat Award (which are more expensive) and the bottom is a Classic Award.

Ok, I'm not sure how I selected different type seats, but ok, thanks for the explanation. Still getting use to the new booking process I guess.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Re: Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related

There are quite a few mistakes around. The other day I noticed a reward flight where the J reward was cheaper than the Y reward (by a lot).

 

[AdMEL]

Re: Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related

There are quite a few mistakes around. The other day I noticed a reward flight where the J reward was cheaper than the Y reward (by a lot).

Was the J cheap or the Y expensive?

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Re: Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related

Was the J cheap or the Y expensive?

Y expensive, J normal........otherwise I would have logged it in a certain spreadsheet

 

[AdMEL]

Re: Reward points cost inclrease blowout since yesterday? New booking process related

Y expensive, J normal........otherwise I would have logged it in a certain spreadsheet

Figured as much!