Double Status Credits promotion (Book by 27/2/24, travel 28/2/24-14/2/25)

[MG1]

As a general idea of DSCs;

1. Qantas Double Status Credits (QF DSC) is a promotion the QF does at few times in a calendar year that gives double status credits for eligible bookings.
2. What is an eligible booking - QF determines and details this in the T&C released each year for each promo.
3. A promo will have 2 time periods to keep in mind

3a. Booking Period - the time period within which an eligible booking has to be made. Historically, Booking Period is 7 days from date of promo commencement
3b. Travel Period - the time period within which the travel has to be completed. Travel Period (usually?) 11-ish months from the end of the Booking Period​

4. The PNR is where the promo is stored/saved - what this means is, as long as the PNR stays the same (remains unchanged), you will get DSCs for the eligible flights stored under that PNR.


Get the booking changed to a date that is within the promo Travel Period, ensuring that the PNR remains unchanged. To do this, talk to the entity you did the booking with ((i.e. via a Travel Agent or Qantas)) and explain that you'd like to do a date change.


Yes a booking can be changed multiple times depending on the traveller's needs. However, to get DSC, ensure that the *new* travel date is within the Travel Period of the promo. Also note that depending on the flexibility of the ticket - you might incur a change fee, fare & tax difference (if applicable).


You can choose how you like to take the refund. You have the flexibility to cancel the flights and take a credit or you can cancel the flights and take a refund to your card.

If you choose to cancel and take a credit - QF has a process to take the $ value of the ticket, convert to a credit and stored in the QF system for use at a later date. When doing this, the credit will have the same PNR as the original booking. This means, if you book a flight using that credit, you will get DSC, provided the *new* flights booked using that credit complies with the eligible flights & Travel Period of the promo.

If you choose to cancel and take a refund ($) - then this is simple as taking a refund, money goes into your card.


I don't think so. Happy to be corrected on this front. Credits can be used whenever you wish to use them? Not an expert on this - happy to be guided.
Edit: Just read comment from @muppet re this.

I'd say yes (with caution). Reason is, so far the booking channels have been pretty open - meaning, the booking can be done from QF website, QF call centres, OTAs, TAs, etc... so I don't see why cashback websites won't count as a valid booking channel. Happy to corrected in this regard.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to write back. Cheers.

Thank you for the very detailed reply, @Ade. I'm glad to know that I should be able to make changes to the booking. Your answer, along with others' answers, will help me plan for the next DSC sale which I hope will be quite soon. (I might be able to try to get ahead of the game by locking in the DSCs now even though I won't know the dates until a few months' time. Then, when the dates are confirmed, provided they're within the required period, I can change the dates and just cop any change fees (hoping they won't be too high).)

 

[SYD]

My one and only DSC booking from the Feb 2024 DSC promo is posting with the “OCT24” DSC annotation…

I guess my booking for the Oct 2024 promo will credit with the Feb/March 25 promo!

 

[RichardMEL]

Love at first flight?

Gotta be a lame reality TV show in there somewhere. See couples fight over making DSC bookings, one bloke cheating on his bride to be with the other person because they have higher status, the "You didn't book the codeshare!" Walk out and the happy scenese of the winning couple getting trwo F seats released to LHR....

 

[AIRwin]

Valentine's Day?

No new DSC offer yet

 

[SYD]

No new DSC offer yet

Patience Grasshopper!

 

[Jacques Vert]

I need to make a booking by 11 March so the DSC promo will start on 12 March.

 

[azza007]

I need to make a booking by 11 March so the DSC promo will start on 12 March.

Well hurry up and book so Qantas can start the DSC promo for the rest of us

Qantas currently has a "sale" from NZ ending 24th Feb

 

[AIRwin]

All DSC posted by now? Thread closed?

 

[SYD]

To be continued? DSC Feb 2025 to Feb 2026? Or will that be March 2025 start?

Meanwhile this still has a few months to run...

K

Thread 'Qantas DSC October 2024 Offer - book by 31/10/24 & fly 1/11/24-19/10/25'

Oct 24, 2024

Clearly point hacks have jumped the gun, QF don’t have offer live yet:

Qantas launches Double Status Credits for 2024 - Point Hacks

Book any Qantas-operated flights from 25 to 31 October 2024, with travel from 1 November 2024 to 19 October 2025.

Same as Feb 2024 offer via QF app Double points or SC

Here's the link to register for this offer:

https://www.qantas.com/au/en/frequent-flyer/member-offers/twice-as-rewarding.html

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[sjfy]

I've recently had my first actual DSC flights, booked originally both a year ago in early 2024 as well as Oct 24. I'd seen others say that the bonus credits came through up to several weeks later. All my flights (8 sectors in total) posted the bonus status credits the next business day.

 

[elanshin]

I've recently had my first actual DSC flights, booked originally both a year ago in early 2024 as well as Oct 24. I'd seen others say that the bonus credits came through up to several weeks later. All my flights (8 sectors in total) posted the bonus status credits the next business day.

Nice, Usually what we observe is that at the start of the Feb/Mar DSC, the very first batch takes a bit longer to get in, once they start rolling in it become 1-3 days (and not necessarily business either as I've had credits roll in on Sundays). The October one was interesting as it was functioning immediately.

The joke is that DSC is handled by some intern and they get a new intern to write a new script to process it every year in Feb/Mar.

 

[RSD]

Nice, Usually what we observe is that at the start of the Feb/Mar DSC, the very first batch takes a bit longer to get in, once they start rolling in it become 1-3 days (and not necessarily business either as I've had credits roll in on Sundays). The October one was interesting as it was functioning immediately.

The joke is that DSC is handled by some intern and they get a new intern to write a new script to process it every year in Feb/Mar.

Oh - I always thought that the new intern processed them manually!

 

[RSD]

If we could just get Qantas Hotels to be anywhere near as efficient then life would be much better - I'm still chasing points from a stay in early December...

 

[Warragul]

(I might be able to try to get ahead of the game by locking in the DSCs now even though I won't know the dates until a few months' time. Then, when the dates are confirmed, provided they're within the required period, I can change the dates and just cop any change fees (hoping they won't be too high).)

Does that method work? I'm curious and may try it if so.

If the booking was originally made outside the DSC period and you retain the same record locater when changing during the DSC period, would it be eligible given the booking was made outside that period?

LIke the method of a placeholder booking made DSC but changing after the booking period has ended but in reverse.

 

[Flyerwin]

No new DSC offer yet

I’m patiently waiting. I’ve got two overseas flights to book still.

 

[dairyfloss]

Does that method work? I'm curious and may try it if so.

If the booking was originally made outside the DSC period and you retain the same record locater when changing during the DSC period, would it be eligible given the booking was made outside that period?

LIke the method of a placeholder booking made DSC but changing after the booking period has ended but in reverse.

Made outside? No; The original booking must have been made inside the DSC booking promo period, AND the travel dates of any intended flight segments must fall within the associated DSC travel promo period.

You can change the flights and dates of travel with the travel promo period window as much as you like, but the booking period aspect is fixed to the handful of days after the promo is launched.

Cheers,
Matt.