I had 10 flights booked using Travel Passes with DSCs which I took between December 2021 and August 2022. These were all Travel Passes issued by QANTAS as a result of QF canceled flights, and I took the option of getting these TPs instead of a refund. I got my first one when I was jumping up and down after not having received a refund after 16 weeks, and the agent offered me a credit. I refused the credit, but then she asked "not even with DPs or DSCs?" "When does it expire" was my immediate response. In subsequent months I racked up quite a few of these.
Under the T&Cs the bonus SCs could take up to 6 weeks to come after travel.
To the question of arrival of the bonus SCs.......in only 3 cases did I have to send an email when they had not arrived after 6 weeks – for 2 of those the SCs turned up 4 days later and in the other case 14 days later.
In respect to the other 7 cases, they all turned up with no prompting from me within the 6 weeks window. However, the results varied greatly from 16 days after completion of travel (2 cases) to 23 days after completion of travel (4 cases) to 41 days after completion of travel (1 case). In all of the cases where I’d booked return flights rather than a single flight, the bonus SCs turned up together for both legs.
At the start of my year (December 2021) I had devised a plan to get to P1 and was sweating on a couple of big chunks of bonus SCs from international business class flights I’d booked to Europe using TPs that contributed only a couple of hundred dollars each to the costs of the tix. Even though I knew I’d met all the rules, I anticipated a battle to get the 1,335 bonus SCs. However, to give QANTAS its dues, their system tracked and delivered these without fault.