Earn bonus points on Gift Vouchers - new and improved for Xmas.

[sumthinfornuthin]

Just what I need.

I have noticed with the last lot of vouchers there was too much leakage. Wish there was a way you could combine 2 vouchers on a booking.

Hope I'm wrong but then Murphy was an optimist

 

[kevrosmith]

Just what I need.

I have noticed with the last lot of vouchers there was too much leakage. Wish there was a way you could combine 2 vouchers on a booking.

You apparently didn't get the Telephone Agents then that did this (combine vouchers) voluntarily when I didn't even really want it... pot luck I reckon.

And yes, I'm hoping Xmas comes early... I've run out of vouchers for the year (phew... it was touch and go whether I'd be able to use them all up for a while there!) and would appreciate the opportunity to get a few more points.

 

[JohnK]

You apparently didn't get the Telephone Agents then that did this (combine vouchers) voluntarily when I didn't even really want it... pot luck I reckon.

No. That would have been nice but at the end of the day I thought I was going to struggle to use them but it was easy.

And yes, I'm hoping Xmas comes early... I've run out of vouchers for the year (phew... it was touch and go whether I'd be able to use them all up for a while there!) and would appreciate the opportunity to get a few more points.

I have booked all my flights through to end June but hoping for another promotion soon just in case I need to book some more cheap flights.

I have not seen airfares as cheap as $79 SYD-BNE for at least a couple of years.

 

[samh004]

And yes, I'm hoping Xmas comes early... I've run out of vouchers for the year (phew... it was touch and go whether I'd be able to use them all up for a while there!) and would appreciate the opportunity to get a few more points.

I've got my money lined up, ready to add to my QCASH card and spend on vouchers for bonus points

 

[Shelf]

And yes, I'm hoping Xmas comes early... I've run out of vouchers for the year (phew... it was touch and go whether I'd be able to use them all up for a while there!) and would appreciate the opportunity to get a few more points.

Last Xmas was the first time I'd bought a voucher, 'twas a good way to lock me in for a family trip. I'll be buying more this year.

 

[Deleted User]

Im too lazy to search.... when did the offer commence last year?

Looking forward to buying more than I did last year to save on those pesky credit card booking fees and to earn some nice qff bonus. Hopefully its 10 pp $ like last time

 

[JohnK]

Im too lazy to search.... when did the offer commence last year?

Betweem 12 December and 27 December!

 

[Deleted User]

Betweem 12 December and 27 December!

Long time to wait... Guess gives me time to save up some more $$$$.

Going to get at least 3k-4k this year

 

[deejo77]

I still have 3 vouchers with $9 each left on them.............thinking they might not get used and just put them on my fb page to see if any of my friends can use them as they have never had a name change.

 

[sumthinfornuthin]

I still have 3 vouchers with $9 each left on them.............thinking they might not get used and just put them on my fb page to see if any of my friends can use them as they have never had a name change.

Can you buy something from the Store ?

 

[Orca]

Quick query... I'm planning on loading up on vouchers if/when the bonus point offer comes to fruition next month, in regards to expiration of a voucher (i.e. 12 months from date of purchase) do you need to book and fly that sector within the 12 months or only book? In essence, I want to buy vouchers and possibly use some late next year to book/pay for flights I'll be taking in 2015 - is this allowable?

 

[JohnK]

Quick query... I'm planning on loading up on vouchers if/when the bonus point offer comes to fruition next month, in regards to expiration of a voucher (i.e. 12 months from date of purchase) do you need to book and fly that sector within the 12 months or only book? In essence, I want to buy vouchers and possibly use some late next year to book/pay for flights I'll be taking in 2015 - is this allowable?

With those vouchers you should be able to book flights in Early December 2014 for travel in early December 2015. I wouldnt leave it that long though.

 

[lovestotravel]

Everytime this thread comes up again I get excited...

Oh well hopefully not long to go

 

[legroom]

Hi Folks

What would be your "ideal" voucher value to give you the max flexibility / point yield ? Or is that a "how long is the piece of string" question ?

? $200

? $500

Given that we cannot combine vouchers, cannot use vouchers for MASA and that nobody wants to leave a $10-20 voucher (or two) behind.

I made the terrible mistake of purchasing dual-name vouchers which turns out to be quite inflexible in the end.

Single vouchers only from me from now on.

 

[Deleted User]

Just flying domestic the $200 ones work well, usually topped up with a CC to make up to the flight cost, points and no CC fees... life's good

 

[serfty]

Single $50 ... unless you have a specific and known need for more than one PAX on a booking.

(Of course don't purchase more than you can use in a year ...)

 

[whereiskym]

Yes I had the same problem this year bought quite a number of vouchers with two names on as I had status albeit only silver but thought would be able to obtain better seat selection. Through out the year we did have to travel quite a bit but were generally never able to travel at the same times due to work. So wasn't able to utilise the vouchers so have just made a number of weekend getaways to use them as need to be used soon. So I guess all in all not a bad outcome some unexpected getaways lol.

It the deal is on again this year single vouchers for me .

 

[Daver6]

Living in PER, it wasn't too difficult to use $500 vouchers without having leftovers. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing

 

[legroom]

Easier said than done, serfty !

The "itchy feet" says more travel but the bank manager says "you'd better work that week for me"

Single $50 ... unless you have a specific and known need for more than one PAX on a booking.

(Of course don't purchase more than you can use in a year ...)

 

[kevrosmith]

With the introduction of the new feature which created a new voucher based on the remaining value, I bought in $500 lots last time. I'm yet to decide if I'll do the same this year: there were a few teething problems with this approach, and I still had to ring up each time to get codes removed to allow me to manage the booking online.

However, it does mean I can maximise the value of points earned and then redeemed against the vouchers without too much leakage of needing to pay more (I purchased 20 vouchers last year).

Something else to note, which I recently discussed with an agent: while it states that the expiry date of re-issued remaining value gift vouchers is governed by the original gift voucher purchase date, they seem to have no way to effectively track this when a ticket is issued. For example, an original voucher purchased on 24-Dec-12 would have an expiry date of 24-Dec-13. I then purchased a flight on 14-Jul-2013, and a new voucher was issued on that same date. When I received the email for the new voucher, it states Jul-2014 as the new expiry date on this voucher. The only date the agent could see against the new booking (which I needed to put into credit) was the ticket issue date: 14-Jul-2014. The only caveat to this, however, is that I notice when you go to redeem a voucher, it does show the original expiry date.

Fingers-crossed I'll never have to have the discussion, though I've always felt that if need be, I'd be able to produce the email from Qantas which lists the new expiry date of the re-issued voucher.