Bonus 1,000 Qantas points, 15 status credits or $20 flight voucher if fully vaccinated against COVID-19

[aus_flyer]

Sadly this thread just reminds me of the enormous sense of entitlement some people have... And they're usually the people that can never be pleased.

 

[Pushka]

Sure - if you win. And the chances of that are...? How many won't win, so won't get that reward?

Competitions are usually distinguished from offers as they're quite different. And if you just look it as a competition, then the need to enter private details is a very high hurdle compared to most.

I still find it a lowball offer for what is being asked.

It's hardly an issue of 'what is being asked' when it's a life saving vaccine that's the requirement.

 

[CaptainCurtis]

Sadly this thread just reminds me of the enormous sense of entitlement some people have... And they're usually the people that can never be pleased.

Amen.

For those that were already vaccinated, you're getting something for nothing.
For those that were on the fence about getting vaccinated, you're getting something to incentivise you off that fence. I acknowledge this category may be small, but this doesn't in itself make it a bad 'deal/offer'.
For those that are not, and have no intention of getting, vaccinated, well you get nothing for nothing.

If you're not comfortable sharing your vaccine certificate, then simply don't participate. It is not compulsory to participate. Just because someone isn't comfortable sharing a vaccine certificate doesn't condemn this to be a bad offer.

 

[Vic]

Sure - if you win. And the chances of that are...? How many won't win, so won't get that reward?

Competitions are usually distinguished from offers as they're quite different. And if you just look it as a competition, then the need to enter private details is a very high hurdle compared to most.

I still find it a lowball offer for what is being asked.

You can't say they haven't put value in it. Maybe I won't win, since I've previously one a major prize in one of these types of competitions.
But you know, if you don't bother because it's lowball, that only improves my chances...

 

[Vic]

Of course, that's the joke.
Still, more people die of birth than die of vaccines... even within the joke...

 

[jakeseven7]

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For those that were on the fence about getting vaccinated, you're getting something to incentivise you off that fence. I acknowledge this category may be small, but this doesn't in itself make it a bad 'deal/offer'.

Yup and maybe all the Virgin points we will get for being vaccinated will tip even more people across the line too.

Wouldn’t mind some Everyday Reward Points Woolies? You sure made some money…

How about you Flybuys? Where is your offer…

*crickets*

 

[Captain Halliday]

Given the prevailing sentiment in the thread, is now a good time to point out that this is highly unfair for members in the most populous states.

With one prize per “state”, the significantly smaller number of QFF members in the NT have a much higher probability of winning.

Do I really have to point out that they’re not a state?!

<Runs to hide>


*For the avoidance of doubt, I’m just stirring the pot.

 

[Horatio]

After sorting this out following a couple of similar drive/download issues to others, I asked for the 15SCs yesterday and they were in my account this morning.

 

[odysseus]

It's hardly an issue of 'what is being asked' when it's a life saving vaccine that's the requirement.

No, it's asking for your personal health details. And you can get vaccinated quite readily without sharing those details with them.

 

[Pushka]

No, it's asking for your personal health details. And you can get vaccinated quite readily without sharing those details with them.

Sure. Understand. In which case you won't participate.

 

[kyle]

No, it's asking for your personal health details. And you can get vaccinated quite readily without sharing those details with them.

It's like everything else on the internet. The more you're willing to share, the more freebies you get.

 

[SydneySwan]

It's like everything else on the internet. The more you're willing to share, the more freebies you get.

And the more spam you get.

 

[Barry Russell]

Seems to be a problem with the Qantas App name matching the name on Covid vaccination certificate with name on QFF card. My card includes my title before my name. The QFF App apparently sees this as a name mismatch and rejects the certificate. Waiting on a response from Qantas .......

 

[ambergris]

My Covid vaccination certificate includes my middle initial, which is not the way my name is recorded on the FrequentFlyer site. I have been unable to upload my certificate to the app. I looked into changing my FF name but need to provide documentation, however no documentation I have includes the middle initial! Any suggestions to solve this impasse will be gratefully received!

 

[2infinity]

I have to say I was looking forward to what wonderful incentives AJ would offer considering having people vaccinated and able to fly is critical to his business.

What a sad bone he has thrown us. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to enter for the major prize, knowing full well the chances of winning are miniscule. The 1000pts/$20 voucher/15SC are not an incentive to get vaccinated and in no way will get the anti-vaxxers to take the jab, which kinda defeats the purpose of the incentive. Those of us already vaccinated will begrudgingly take the bone. The anti-vaxxers will just scoff. MISSION FAIL. Even though Qantas will get good publicity, if nobody can fly, it's not worth squat.

When I first heard of the options, I thought 'what a load of cough', but I suppose 15SC will count towards my lifetime status, until I read the fine print. I just shake my head. My next thought was to wait till May to take the offer, so they'd at least count towards the next years status, but nope, more fine print says must take by end of December. I will take my dried up husk of a bone (1000pts) and whimper in the corner.

 

[Happy Dude]

I have to say I was looking forward to what wonderful incentives AJ would offer considering having people vaccinated and able to fly is critical to his business.

What a sad bone he has thrown us. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to enter for the major prize, knowing full well the chances of winning are miniscule. The 1000pts/$20 voucher/15SC are not an incentive to get vaccinated and in no way will get the anti-vaxxers to take the jab, which kinda defeats the purpose of the incentive. Those of us already vaccinated will begrudgingly take the bone. The anti-vaxxers will just scoff. MISSION FAIL. Even though Qantas will get good publicity, if nobody can fly, it's not worth squat.

When I first heard of the options, I thought 'what a load of cough', but I suppose 15SC will count towards my lifetime status, until I read the fine print. I just shake my head. My next though was to wait till May to take the offer, so they'd at least count towards the next years status, but nope, more fine print says must take by end of December. I will take my dried up husk of a bone (1000pts) and whimper in the corner.

You should attend a Melbourne engagement party or a Maroubra beach party to keep the virus going round and QFi grounded, just to spite Alan Joyce and his miserable offer.

 

[Pushka]

Seems to be a problem with the Qantas App name matching the name on Covid vaccination certificate with name on QFF card. My card includes my title before my name. The QFF App apparently sees this as a name mismatch and rejects the certificate. Waiting on a response from Qantas .......

Likely your choice will appear anyway later.

 

[RooFlyer]

This is a ridiculously cynical exercise from Qantas, though not unexpected of course. The three so-called offers are all worth effectively nothing and will cost Qantas the same, which is of course why they're happy to give them away for hopefully some free positive publicity.

1,000 QFF points is worth at best $10, which will be easily offset by quietly increased prices and points devaluations in their various redemption stores. There's no chance of actually using these points to redeem a flight of course because they'll make sure there are no QFF seats on whatever flight you try to book.

$20 flight voucher is similarly worthless in an environment where you can't actually fly anywhere and again easily offset by quiet flight price increases to claw back the $20 again. If it was a genuine $20 in cash transferred into your bank account, then this would be the one to get, but of course that's never gonna happen.

On the face of it, the 15SC are the only 'reward' worth anything until you find out the 15SC points have special status in not counting for anything worthwhile like status upgrades or lifetime status totals, meaning they're actually worthless too and will just expire again before you can actually extract any tangible benefit from them.

Thanks for nothing Qantas. Just another BS marketing exercise, probably come up with over a weekend BBQ between Joyce + Scotty from Marketing's place.

Like - wow. I note the irrelevant political jibe at the end. Tells me a lot about the origin of this rant.

Given that vaccination will be a requirement to fly Qantas at some stage ( as well as the best general health thing right now) and Qantas will want as many people to fly them as possible, it seems a good commercial strategy as well as marketing.

But just ignore it if you like. Go Virgin I guess.

You do realise some people are taking the piss right…. (at the screechers complaining they didn’t get enough honey from QF from doing something that will literally save their lives / loved ones lives which should be reward enough but you know…).
Some people need to get a grip.

I’m not so sure about the taking the pi**. There are ways of signalling that - absent. I take them at face value in that case.

 

[RichardMEL]

AJ actually did a lot - will manage to get Vax Certs onto Qantas app for next to no cost.
And when customers start booking, the Vax cert is already there - makes bookings easier with a vaccine mandate in place

SO are you saying that you don't trust QF is actually throwing away the cert after (auto) verification?

Now there probably is a flag in their CRM database somewhere sure, but the cert itself?

I could sense some sort of legal action if this came to pass (noting QF will obviously require an upload to the Travel Pass app when that time comes - but that's a separate issue)

 

[Quickstatus]

SO are you saying

I don’t really care if QF does or does not delete the Vaxcert itself after verification. It is basically a receipt.

They likely store the info ?Cert? somewhere. There will also likely be a sunset trigger - say after a year as people will need boosters at least once a year.

There will be fake certs to be used a screenshots to enter nightclubs. It is not hard to replicate as a PDF.

What will be needed is the verification of the “individual healthcare identifier” that follows each digital certificate.