Waiting waiting on sales :)

[mrsterryn]

One advantage of being retired is timing of trips are at my discretion..
Hoping for a Tokyo in Oct, USA or Europe Dec ( love seeing winter Xmas displays )
Need to work out a couple of trips for beginning of 2018.
However waiting on double Status Credits or a good sale from Qantas.
Perhaps their sales will help choose next destination ?

 

[Deleted member 29185]

DSC would be nice. Decent sale would be next nicest!

 

[JohnK]

Boxing Day? The recent sales have have been short. Need SYD-BKK in Feb-Apr and SIN-SYD in Jun-Aug.

 

[mrsterryn]

Yes DSC probale first choice @swanning_it

@JohnK I am hoping for good emails tomorrow.
Forgot a Syd to LHR trip in May as well.

 

[LadyC]

I certainly wouldn't mind a DSC offer either.

 

[UP4014]

QF sale tomorrow (Boxing Day)

 

[AIRwin]

QF sale tomorrow (Boxing Day)

Flight deals and Specials | Qantas
Boxing Day Sale | Jetstar

 

[Deleted member 29185]

No DSC, no J. Not the offer I was hoping for.

 

[kermatu]

Some good fares but very limited dates.

 

[snabbu]

No DSC, no J. Not the offer I was hoping for.

Yep quite a poor offering to wake up to

 

[mrsterryn]

I was hoping for more actually.
Though I think the DSC was mid Jan this year ?

 

[astrosly]

I was hoping for more actually.
Though I think the DSC was mid Jan this year ?

No, the DSC was for a few days early March for flights up to mid-Feb 2018.

I too was hoping for more, the sale period for all routes that I looked at is only for about 8 weeks end July to 21 Sep (between school holidays, yes?). I just got an email from Qantas with this blurb:
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Boxing Day Flights Sale

Make 2018 the year of adventure and get your travel plans flying with great fares available around Australia throughout autumn and winter~.
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Autumn and winter is 21 Mar to 21 Sep but I don't see any autumn deals, only from mid-winter onwards.

 

[JohnK]

The Boxing Day sale has made no difference to the airfares for the dates I want to travel.

It's been getting harder and harder to get an airfare on sale of late.

 

[mrsterryn]

Yep agree with previous posters. Not much in the way of deals. Only one flight 2018 is date specific so may book that one soon.
Had a look at Cathay and Qatar so was really hoping Qantas would have similar

 

[UP4014]

When profits are high, discounts will be low.

 

[trippin_the_rift]

Trippin's Tip of the Week:

Subscribe to other oneworld airline newsletters (ie: Sri Lankan, Cathay, Malaysia etc) for non-homeport departures. Eg; For UL, you want to subscribe to their ex-BKK or ex-HKG deals. For CX you want to subscribe to ex-PEN or ex-TPE/MNL deals.

The deals you can find here can often beat the cough out of anything a DSC offer might provide.

For example, there is a PEN-HKG-NRT vv in biz class on CX available right now for <$1K aussie. QR routinely has $2K AUD HKG-DOH-EUROPE in biz class return.

If you can half the price of a ticket, it's essentially the same as a DSC from status earning perspective.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

For example, there is a PEN-HKG-NRT vv in biz class on CX available right now for <$1K aussie ... If you can half the price of a ticket, it's essentially the same as a DSC from status earning perspective.

I think I'd enjoy doing things like you suggest, but I'm time poor. What SC's would that trip reap? If I do CNS-BNE in J, I can get 120SCs for about $635 in a DSC offer and it's a flight I'd need to make anyway, not strictly an SC run.

 

[mrsterryn]

Ok hoping for a New Year's sale

 

[JohnK]

Ok hoping for a New Year's sale

There will definitely be a New Year's sale. I'm kind of hoping airfares will be lower but not holding my breath.

 

[RichardMEL]

The QF/EK sale including NZ and europe (J specially) has some pretty good prices IMHO. eg sub-$6k in J oz-LHR is a very very good deal.