Weird Booking Appears QZW-QZY

Had a chat re this with a QF supervisor - he was very surprised to hear about this *phantom* booking. He acknowledged that the booking system sometimes will add a *ghost* route to the itinerary, but never something that says *fictitious point*
Always been the case. The airport codes used are QZW-QZY for Qantas system bookings.
 
Virgin credit bookings always finished with a final segment from HDQ to BVI (Headquarters, TX to Birdsville, Australia) to preserve the remaining credit. It is listed as 9060 miles (in a 737-800!) so I jokingly asked my travel agent to make an ORC claim for me once.
 
Always been the case. The airport codes used are QZW-QZY for Qantas system bookings.
First time I spot it. Though, it was the first time in eons when I booked through a QF call centre. When you redeem a GV online, the system automatically purges any pseudo flights out. And a good TA would also clean up the itineraries of any placeholders or marks they've made.
 
A lot of people received unexpected emails on Thursday afternoon advising of a schedule change to Qantas' pseudo flight QF9097. This article explains what this was about:

 
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