Qantas Increases Legroom Charges; Changes to Row 4 selection on most 737 flights

[Fifi2207]

I imagine this will be the new game now. With a few people sprinkled here and there willing to pay. It does make it a lot more competitive as its much easier to calculate t-24 than t-80 mentally.

I'm one of those sprinkles.....Today I feel doubly annoyed. Booked my 6'3" son a row 4 seat at $35;-| Just outside the 24hrs cancel window-he had to change it by a day lost the seat selection and on changing had to pay another $35 to select again. Grrrr. Learnt another Qantas rule.

 

[GoldenTouchdown]

The bonus though is that, unlike T-80, T-24 will never be at a horrific hour like 3am.

Can’t believe people would stay up or get up at that hour for T-80 selection on a domestic hop! Reminds me of iPhone launch days gone by

 

[Princess Fiona]

Literally the title of the thread......

To be fair to the OP they had posted this as a new thread presumably before searching and it was merged into this thread.

 

[SYD]

Can’t believe people would stay up or get up at that hour for T-80 selection on a domestic hop! Reminds me of iPhone launch days gone by

I just set an alert around 6 or 7am and that’s usually fine.

 

[BQ-Mel]

For me this change was the last straw. Very little point to maintaining loyalty with Qantas now, and I'm a 20+ year platinum/gold FF.

 

[Kendall Roy]

For me this change was the last straw. Very little point to maintaining loyalty with Qantas now, and I'm a 20+ year platinum/gold FF.

Same here.

I'm P1, about to drop to WP, then I'll revert to LTG.

Moving forward, I'll look for best value options, as well as other OW airlines internationally.

 

[1022]

You've really got to wonder how much revenue they really think charging for row 4 will earn them vs lost goodwill and people deciding to try the competition instead, and realising that the gap in product these days between QF and VA is much narrower than it used to be. And that sure as hell isn't because VA has got any better.

Surely there'd be more revenue in the long run generated via loyalty by being somewhat consistent with several other OW airlines and offering preferential/extra legroom seating gratis to OWS and above as discussed upthread. But then "loyalty" to Qantas is now just a highly profitable virtual currency sold to banks, supermarkets and petrol stations that mugs go out of their way to earn to buy toasters.

 

[tdimdad]

There is the risk that those who appreciate leg room in Y will come to like VA's free Economy X seats, all three rows of them. Given WP over there is generally easier to gain & maintain, those individuals may be changing their loyalties. Not that it'd necessarily bother QF.