Qantas is continuing its 15,000-point promotion until
the end of this month. Under the program, frequent flyer members flying
return between Australia and London, Paris, Frankfurt or Rome will get
up to 15,000 bonus points for their troubles.
Those travelling to LA, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong or
Mumbai will receive 8,000. A return flight to New Zealand will earn you
2,000 bonus points.
Good news on the insurance front for Global Rewards program members. One of our readers says she's managed to successfully claim her unused but purchased award flights through Zurich Insurance.
"At one stage Ansett had told me to throw away the tickets," she wrote.
"Zurich were very helpful. I had to provide a quote for the travel, copies of tickets, copies on rewards statement showing points deducted and letter from Westpac re points. They reconfirmed the points with Westpac and bingo."
"Only the points earned on the Gold Visa Card were insured, so I got $1212 for one return ticket Syd/Denpasar/Syd."
She says all she had to do was send copies of the Global
Rewards statement showing the points deducted, copies of tickets, and a
letter from Westpac confirming the points were accrued on the Gold Card.
Another of our readers has posted what he or she called an "insider trader" on our bulletin board. The hot goss
was that apparently the Coles/Myer group was considering opting out of
the Fly Buys program.
Another reader responded claiming the scheme has been
under review and the Coles/Myer decision has been postponed since
October last year to weather the industry shake-up.
One of our readers has pointed to an offer being run by Diners Club over the course of the year. Diners will give you 12,000 frequent flyer miles on any major airline of your choice when you join quoting code SIZK5617. It's worth checking out.
IMPORTANT UPDATE (5 March): Diners contacted us (4 March)
with the following: "Information regarding the above offer published in the current edition of The
Frequent Flyer Gazette is incorrect and has been published without the
permission of Diners Club Australia. We have urged the Editor to contact Diners
Club Australia immediately to print a retraction. This offer may relate to
another program run by Diners Club USA and we are currently investigating"
We were simply reporting one of our reader's comments.
As this does not apply to cards issued by Diners Club Australia -
although as Diners have stated, the offer may apply to cards issued by
another (non Australian) Diners Club franchisee - we
do apologise for any inconvenience caused. A
correction will be published in next month's Gazette.
If anyone knows of similar offers, let others know on our
bulletin board.
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