Double Status Credits (book by 5/2/18, fly 12/2/18 to 20/1/19)

[Vic]

This IT glitch has been around for a number of years and endorsed by a company representative 2 years ago.

It wouldn't be an issue now if people were a little subtle and stopped being lazy asking the same question at least once on every page of this thread.

If the IT glitch is shut down it will be dissapointing but not the end of the world.

And one thing I never expected to happen was for AFF to become similar to Ozbargain. The greed is unbelievable. The rush to help one self at the expense of others is unbelievable. My motto now is to keep quiet about any tricks I find and I still have a few up my sleeve.

Subtle, Not shouting from the rooftops. - this is exactly my point. But apparently it is more important to ignore the point and instead harass me for having an opinion.

If the company endorsement is what was quoted to me, in my opinion that reads like a statement of what will happen rather than an endorsement to say it should happen. I assume that the company rep here was not a decision maker (e.g. upper management) within qantas.

 

[Vic]

?? Still wondering whose lawyer you were saying could make a case against us for fraud!

I've answered this twice already.
If you can't understand my answer, or if you refuse to accept my point, there is no benefit in continuing to harass me about it.

 

[DC3]

Can't we just wait to see how the SCs post? Won' t be too long.

 

[Vic]

Reference to legal aspects / lawyers / legalese is pretty irrelevant to this topic;anything that may happen in relation to redemption of vouchers after Feb 5th for flights will boil down to whether or not SC are earned x 2 or not.

Value of same generally would preclude any court based challenge.

Is there some information about the value of status credits. I'd be surprised if an airline did not assign a value to status credits since they're used to give away benefits at a cost to the airline. What has the company rep said on this? I've done a search and can't find anything.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I did not say Qantas would take legal action. It would be absurd to make such a conclusion from my post.

Why do you believe I was replying to your particular post?

I was simply responding to the usual BS of people starting to talk about what a solicitor will or won't do. A solicitor will do nothing unless someone is paying them and that leaves just two possibilities ... QFF or QFF's customers. I've mused that neither will do anything except talk. What a solicitor would or wouldn't argue is immaterial. The outcome will be
a) the voucher will work as previous years and everyone will be happy; or
b) the vouchers have been curtailed and telephone negotiations will happen with an outcome which people will either be happy about, or not.

At no point will legal action occur.

 

[DC3]

... Yesterday, I received an E-ticket Itinerary & Receipt for the first voucher PNR. It's booked as QF9097 QZW-QZY departing 24/1/19. Has what looks like a valid ticket number beginning with 081 ...

No dummy (voucher ) bookings for me as yet. What you describe seems similar to when I once had a credit shell (voucher) allocated for a paid flight booking that I had cancelled.

 

[QF WP]

[Mod hat on]
Alright, everybody has the right to an opinion and nobody here knows the right answer, so discuss things in a civil manner please.

We (the Mod team) are watching this thread closely. My father always said "if you have nothing new to add, then add nothing"
[/Mod hat off]

 

[pauly7]

Perhaps given the offer is now over, done and dusted this thread can be locked. Perhaps a new thread can be started on successful postings from the 12'th Feb (or whenever someone gets their first DSC)

 

[DC3]

No dummy (voucher ) bookings for me as yet, not that I'm expecting any. What you describe seems similar to when I once had a credit shell (voucher) allocated for a paid flight booking that I had cancelled.

 

[JohnK]

Subtle, Not shouting from the rooftops. - this is exactly my point. But apparently it is more important to ignore the point and instead harass me for having an opinion.

Apologies if my reply comes across that way. Not harrassing and you are certainly entitled to an opinion.

The cat's out of the bag now thanks to Ozbargain.

As I said these gift vouchers have been around for a long time and if they were not eligible for double SCs I'd be disappointed but not the end of the world. I'd just use each gift voucher for a one-way flight until I've used all my gift vouchers.

 

[Deleted member]

Can't we just wait to see how the SCs post? Won' t be too long.

Ahhh the inevitable voice of sanity

 

[Pushka]

Apologies if my reply comes across that way. Not harrassing and you are certainly entitled to an opinion.

The cat's out of the bag now thanks to Ozbargain.

As I said these gift vouchers have been around for a long time and if they were not eligible for double SCs I'd be disappointed but not the end of the world. I'd just use each gift voucher for a one-way flight until I've used all my gift vouchers.

I’ve never looked at ozbargain until now. I don’t see any damaging conversation about delayed bookings there.

 

[JohnK]

I’ve never looked at ozbargain until now. I don’t see any damaging conversation about delayed bookings there.

I believe there's a link from Ozbargain to here which has brought across some new people to the mix.

 

[Pushka]

I believe there's a link from Ozbargain to here which has brought across some new people to the mix.

I saw a reference to AFF. Didn’t realise it was a link.

 

[straitman]

Ahhh the inevitable voice of sanity

Yeah. Someone had to spoil it all by being logical!

 

[JohnK]

I saw a reference to AFF. Didn’t realise it was a link.

I think some of the posts in this thread are self explanatory.

 

[Vic]

Apologies if my reply comes across that way. Not harrassing and you are certainly entitled to an opinion.

The cat's out of the bag now thanks to Ozbargain.

As I said these gift vouchers have been around for a long time and if they were not eligible for double SCs I'd be disappointed but not the end of the world. I'd just use each gift voucher for a one-way flight until I've used all my gift vouchers.

Your post does not come across that way. Sorry for making it sound like it did.

 

[Matt_01]

I cannot believe how much content is being generated on the same subject, vouchers and trying to pull apart the T’s and C’s. When you actually look at the original T’s and C’s (prior to the QF update) there were a couple of minor differences to last year’s offer, however in general they read pretty much the same as all other offers by QF whether it be 50% DSC, Double Points etc.

I don’t need to fly DSC flights at present as I am QF WP1 (LTG) and VA WP, however I still need to fly weekly and so we do not generate another 30 odd pages of T’s and C’s discussions, vouchers, all the other “what ifs”. I have changed some of my existing bookings to fly the DSC bookings within the first couple of weeks of the period 12 Feb 18 - 20 Jan 19 and provide feedback.

For the record, I have 4 bookings:

x2 made with gift vouchers, both vouchers were purchased on 2/2, before the T's and C's were updated.

• One was redeemed on 3/2 for travel 16 Feb, so purchased and redeemed within the promotional period (1-5 Feb) and will be flown prior to 20 Jan 19.
• One other was redeemed on 6/2 for travel 18 Feb, so purchased but not redeemed within the promotional period (1-5 Feb) and will be flown prior to 20 Jan 19.

x2 flights, flexible flights booked and ticketed on 2/2

• One from early Aug 18 and changed to 18 Feb, so purchased within the promotional period (1-5 Feb), changed outside of the promotional period and flown prior to 20 Jan 19.
• One from early Aug 18, cancelled and refunded as a voucher. Re-booked for 22 Feb, so purchased within the promotional period (1-5 Feb), cancelled and rebooked outside of the promotional period and flown prior to 20 Jan 19. Important point for less frequent travelers, refunding as a voucher enables me to retain the original PNR.

There are other scenarios that could be also be looked at e.g. routing changes, adding in segments, combining flights etc. If the above work then I would be confident that other changes will also work provided that the PNR was created 1-5 Feb and flown between 12 Feb 18 - 20 Jan 19. As others said it is the PNR create date that is important, it is not a hard concept to understand.

Lets see what happens.

 

[Pushka]

I cannot believe how much content is being generated on the same subject, vouchers) and trying to pull apart the T’s and C’s. When you actually look at the original T’s and C’s (prior to the QF update) there were a couple of minor differences to last year’s offer, however in general they read pretty much the same as all other offers by QF whether it be 50% DSC, Double Points etc.

I don’t need to fly DSC flights at present as I am QF WP1 (LTG) and VA WP, however I still need to fly weekly and so we do not generate another 30 odd pages of T’s and C’s discussions, vouchers, all the other “what ifs”. I have changed some of my existing bookings to fly the DSC bookings within the first couple of weeks of the period 12 Feb 18 - 20 Jan 19 and provide feedback.

For the record, I have 4 bookings:

x2 made with gift vouchers, both vouchers were purchased on 2/2, before the T's and C's were updated.

• One was redeemed on 3/2 for travel 16 Feb, so purchased and redeemed within the promotional period (1-5 Feb) and will be flown prior to 20 Jan 19.
• One other was redeemed on 6/2 for travel 18 Feb, so purchased but not redeemed within the promotional period (1-5 Feb) and will be flown prior to 20 Jan 19.

x2 flights, flexible flights booked and ticketed on 2/2

• One from early Aug 18 and changed to 18 Feb, so purchased within the promotional period (1-5 Feb), changed outside of the promotional period and flown prior to 20 Jan 19.
• One from early Aug 18, cancelled and refunded as a voucher. Re-booked for 22 Feb, so purchased within the promotional period (1-5 Feb), changed outside of the promotional period and flown prior to 20 Jan 19.

There are other scenarios that could be also be looked at e.g. routing changes, adding in segments, combining flights etc. If the above work then I would be confident that other changes will also work provided that the PNR was created 1-5 Feb and flown between 12 Feb 18 - 20 Jan 19. As others said it is the PNR create date that is important, it is not a hard concept to understand.

Lets see what happens.

Noice. That should settle the crowd.

 

[straitman]

Noice. That should settle the crowd.

You are dreaming again!