The Qantas Status Run Master Thread

[hakkinen5]

Hi, I may need to do a status run mid year, which I would book if a DSC offer comes out. As I'm a Points Club Member I would book this on points. My question is for reward bookings, if for example I book Melbourne to Brisbane, and select a displayed flight option that goes via Sydney (i.e. 2 flights), do I get Status Credits awarded for each flight? Or because it is a reward booking, does it just look at origin and destination when calculating SC earn. I know if it was a revenue flight I'd get credit for 2 separate flights, but I thought I had read that being a reward flight it may be calculated differently?

 

[Aeryn]

Hi, I may need to do a status run mid year, which I would book if a DSC offer comes out. As I'm a Points Club Member I would book this on points. My question is for reward bookings, if for example I book Melbourne to Brisbane, and select a displayed flight option that goes via Sydney (i.e. 2 flights), do I get Status Credits awarded for each flight? Or because it is a reward booking, does it just look at origin and destination when calculating SC earn. I know if it was a revenue flight I'd get credit for 2 separate flights, but I thought I had read that being a reward flight it may be calculated differently?

No you will get partial SC earn for both legs provided there are 2 flight numbers.

 

[aikman]

Hi, I may need to do a status run mid year, which I would book if a DSC offer comes out. As I'm a Points Club Member I would book this on points. My question is for reward bookings, if for example I book Melbourne to Brisbane, and select a displayed flight option that goes via Sydney (i.e. 2 flights), do I get Status Credits awarded for each flight? Or because it is a reward booking, does it just look at origin and destination when calculating SC earn. I know if it was a revenue flight I'd get credit for 2 separate flights, but I thought I had read that being a reward flight it may be calculated differently?

You'll get status credits per sector. Note that the cash surcharges are higher the more sectors you have.

 

[elanshin]

Hi, I may need to do a status run mid year, which I would book if a DSC offer comes out. As I'm a Points Club Member I would book this on points. My question is for reward bookings, if for example I book Melbourne to Brisbane, and select a displayed flight option that goes via Sydney (i.e. 2 flights), do I get Status Credits awarded for each flight? Or because it is a reward booking, does it just look at origin and destination when calculating SC earn. I know if it was a revenue flight I'd get credit for 2 separate flights, but I thought I had read that being a reward flight it may be calculated differently?
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No you will get partial SC earn for both legs provided there are 2 flight numbers.

You will get SC per sector as long as it's separate flight numbers. So a MEL-SYD-BNE in business Classic Rewards would earn 18+18 SC in one direction (double that during DSC).

 

[hakkinen5]

Thanks for your quick replies!

 

[LionKing]

$7 per status credit! Is it cheap enough?

 

[HMcM]

$7 per status credit! Is it cheap enough?

If the DSC comes soon as is predicted then it will be $3.74/SC

 

[alexczarn]

If the DSC comes soon as is predicted then it will be $3.74/SC

Yes but that will be *after* the sale..

 

[HMcM]

Yes but that will be *after* the sale..

I missed that one. Unfortunately there were a few sales that I was keeping an eye on that with DSC would have made for some great status runs <$3/SC. But their sales are over now and they're back in the $5-$6 range.

 

[Invisible Monkey]

I missed that one. Unfortunately there were a few sales that I was keeping an eye on that with DSC would have made for some great status runs <$3/SC. But their sales are over now and they're back in the $5-$6 range.

If you have the available funds, book the full flexi fare/s during the DSC then when there is the inevitable sale, change the flights for when you are doing the actual status run. So long as the PNR is the same, you'll get the DSC.

I've done this in the past where I've booked multiple placeholder flights and just changed the dates to when I actually want to fly and I got the DSC.

 

[HMcM]

If you have the available funds, book the full flexi fare/s during the DSC then when there is the inevitable sale, change the flights for when you are doing the actual status run. So long as the PNR is the same, you'll get the DSC.

I've done this in the past where I've booked multiple placeholder flights and just changed the dates to when I actually want to fly and I got the DSC.

How'd you go about making the change? When I look at the Business Flex fare rules it says:

• Your flight can only be changed to a new fare of equal or higher value. Alternatively, a Flight Credit can be used to book fares lower than your original ticket price and can be used towards multiple bookings.

Please excuse the ignorance, I'm pretty new to the SC run game.

 

[dandandan]

Anyone seen any good runs from these current sale fares?

 

[Invisible Monkey]

How'd you go about making the change? When I look at the Business Flex fare rules it says:

• Your flight can only be changed to a new fare of equal or higher value. Alternatively, a Flight Credit can be used to book fares lower than your original ticket price and can be used towards multiple bookings.

Please excuse the ignorance, I'm pretty new to the SC run game.

I can only speak from personal experience, the majority of my previous placeholder flights were international flexi economy and I was able to change to new dates and was refunded the difference if the fare was lower or I changed to a flight credit and booking different flights with the flight credit - even multiple flights - all earned the DSC as the original PNR was still used.

 

[alex.siukh]

I can only speak from personal experience, the majority of my previous placeholder flights were international flexi economy and I was able to change to new dates and was refunded the difference if the fare was lower or I changed to a flight credit and booking different flights with the flight credit - even multiple flights - all earned the DSC as the original PNR was still used.

Book 10 cheap domestic flexi. The best strategy

 

[elanshin]

Anyone have any route suggestions to look at intra europe? By my maths my partner is going to be about 150 SC short of hitting platinum this year due to a bunch of freebies we got (award flights turned into full J fares). I'm looking at options right now for intra europe options without resorting to a SYD / MEL return for $600 during the current sale.

 

[PERLHR]

Anyone have any route suggestions to look at intra europe? By my maths my partner is going to be about 150 SC short of hitting platinum this year due to a bunch of freebies we got (award flights turned into full J fares). I'm looking at options right now for intra europe options without resorting to a SYD / MEL return for $600 during the current sale.

LHR-JER-LHR twice over in biz with BA? Or due to the relatively high frequencies to GLA and EDI? Is it not 40 points on QF for each of these sectors in biz? Also I'm sure any other European route via LHR are with QF 40 each way in biz...AMS...PRG etc?..or am I misreading your need!?

 

[sudoer]

Take a look at BCN-xMAD-LON RT on IB/BA

Starts at about $546 + taxes for 200 SC.

 

[SYD]

Anyone have any route suggestions to look at intra europe? By my maths my partner is going to be about 150 SC short of hitting platinum this year due to a bunch of freebies we got (award flights turned into full J fares). I'm looking at options right now for intra europe options without resorting to a SYD / MEL return for $600 during the current sale.

Haven’t checked if this is still “cheap” but this was a decent run mention at post #326. Just after that post @kangarooflyer88 found something to solve a similar problem.

Also I'm sure any other European route via LHR are with QF 40 each way in biz...AMS...PRG etc?..or am I misreading your need!?

LHR-ATH is 80, so there must be some shorter 60 SCs routes out there.

In general, looking at some of the peripheral ports HEL (AY), MAD (IB) as well as BA can offer good runs. HEL-FRA is 60 SCs, MAD-HEL is 80 SCs. So routes from or via those could do it (as mentioned above).