As I needed to visit the family in QLD next March, today I decided to use the 20% discount offer to book a business seat.
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Before I booked, I checked the price I would pay as a "walk up" customer on the web site. I was looking at QF 1907. You can clearly see that the only business class fare offered was $972.
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So then I followed the special offer link, expecting to get a fare at around $780 (ie 20% off $972). Imagine my surprise (not) when this is what was offered to me:
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Special offer of $909 - that is an actual discount of less than 7% - WTF is QF doing????? Are they deliberately trying to cheese off WPs??? Needless to say, I booked a CR for myself and Mr Seat 0A (hence the unavailability of reward seats on this flight, sorry everyone else) and am for sure on a program of whittling away my points balance to be able to break up with QF. I read the small print too, and did not see anything that would explain the coughpy discount being offered except the highlighted part
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Sure we will give you a Qantas VIP Exclusive Fare - and it will potentially be worse than the fare we offer the general public. Wow. Just wow.