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  1. equus

    Business Class Query to Europe - Recommendations?

    Actually the reverse. UK has expensive departure taxes - avoid flights FROM UK - into UK is fine, no issues.
  2. equus

    Qantas rolls out Classic Plus Flight Rewards

    This. Platinum charge earns 2.25 points (except government and a few exceptions), and allows credit against purchases at 0.5 cents per point, so 1.125% cashback effectively. Unless interchange rates increase (and surcharges and merchant fees likewise), this is about the top of the possible...
  3. equus

    Qantas doesn't care about priority boarding

    But has anybody read the actual benefit? You will notice that it doesn't actually define what priority actually is. Is it an entitlement to low priority (behind everybody else?), or simply priority with respect to the cleaners at the other end? QF are delivering on the letter of the promised...
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    Qantas Staff Incompetence - Ticketed 2 adults and not infant, leading to denied boarding

    And it is the last point - pay that comes into it. People have become used to online purchases direct with the airline where you pay immediately. But many fares, especially when booked via a TA don't need to be paid for considerable amounts of time. There is also a lag between booking and...
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    Qantas rolls out Classic Plus Flight Rewards

    On the same cynical note, and considering also the mix between domestic and international. Is the 5 million number the count of what is redeemed, or what is made available? The number of available could be vastly increased if every unsold domestic economy seat was made available as X class 31...
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    Qantas Increases Legroom Charges; Changes to Row 4 selection on most 737 flights

    Agree - you will never get the details. A Perceived Customer Value will be an esoteric mix of all sorts of things. Amount spent on flying may be part of it, but perceived profit on the amount spent is much more likely to be what is considered. Someone dropping $15K on a return J international...
  7. equus

    "... we'll shortly announce a major investment to improve our Frequent Flyer program"

    Or open accounts for family members who fly a few times, and have since passed away, but the FF account still exists,
  8. equus

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

    FWIW I have given up on row 4 some time ago. When flying with my partner (WP and SG), have had a much better experience and hit rate just selecting window and aisle in Row 6 (provided the middle is empty). So far 100% hit rate of spare middle (and sometimes only one or two empty seats left on...
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    Qantas Increases Legroom Charges; Changes to Row 4 selection on most 737 flights

    There are quite a few misconceptions still floating around here - and I don't think the real devaluation for WP1 is as great as it seems. The real issue is that QF have decided to charge for those sears - that is an impost on everybody (regardless of status, and ignore T-80). The T-80 unblock...
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    Lets talk about the 787 windows

    They shouldn't - and there is nothing actually in the conditions of carriage that actually permits Qantas to do that. The applicable section regarding this in Section 5.6 - Seating selection and allocation states: Once seated, in theory, unless the reason is operational, safety related or for...
  11. equus

    Qantas Club price increase April 2024

    And Qantas Business Rewards level 1 membership is good for 20% off, Level 2 or 3 will get you 30% off.
  12. equus

    Lets talk about the 787 windows

    No - the instruction / request only has to be reasonable. The problem with that, is that reasonable in the circumstances can be a very grey area. Some things are clearly reasonable (especially if safety related) like bring your seatback upright for take off, and all baggage for people in the...
  13. equus

    Australia's newest airline? [Wishlist]

    The trouble with some of these wishlist items is that I would also like an airline that was financially stable enough that I could trust that if I bought a ticket they would still be in business when it came time to take the flight.
  14. equus

    "... we'll shortly announce a major investment to improve our Frequent Flyer program"

    For me, Qantas started to kill CR the moment they started marketing redemptions as somehow being a useable alternative to cash for anybody, rather than what they really were - an opportunity for loyal customers to pick up undesirable and unsold seats cheap to travel when no-body else really...
  15. equus

    "... we'll shortly announce a major investment to improve our Frequent Flyer program"

    Don't see any correlation. PC/PC+ makes no difference to the ability to generate non-flying points, or to spend them on CR. It only adds some small status benefit / incentive for infrequent flyers. Anyone flying enough to make a serious difference would get the status anyway. Anyone...
  16. equus

    Mixed Class Multi City Award

    Booked as such through the QF web-site it will be the one PNR and all luggage will be checked through - you should receive both boarding passes in Sydney.
  17. equus

    Downgraded without notification - what are my options?

    That is what Qantas would like you to think - as it makes it look better for them, and they can then invoke various exceptions in the conditions of carriage - but this is not an operational requirement, it is a commercial decision. An operational requirement would affect the flight in...
  18. equus

    Downgraded without notification - what are my options?

    Did you ask to be accommodated in 'J on an alternative flight? The Qantas conditions of carriage make the choice of travelling in the lower class,, or being accommodated in the original class on a reasonably available alternative Qantas flight the option of the customer.
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    Qantas ticket class visibility?

    Also not wanting to take this down the complicated rabbit hole, but the prices aren't actually applied to the fare "letter" codes like that. For a single sector, it does end up working out that way, but the pricing is actually applied to the fare basis code. For example for BNE-SYD there are...
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