Has anyone had success with the call-up "Marginal" xASA's?

[Newk]

Thanks for sharing your bitter-sweet experience. I've passed on your comments to the team. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.

Yeah. And let's wait and see if it really is a proper ASA and not one of the new special ASAs that walk a lot like a classic award.

Edit to add: hi to RR

 

[Deleted User]

Thanks for sharing your bitter-sweet experience. I've passed on your comments to the team. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.

Red Roo, its nice for your continued input and participation in this and other threads on AFF, I do hope that you are not one of the 3,000-5,000 who are to allegedly given bad news over the next few months...

I'm sure that others would agree that your participation on here is key to keeping us loyal during the occasional hiccup when trying to book the elusive MASA / xASA :!: (also like still not receiving the Christmas gift voucher bonus points, which I know you have your team still working on )

Thanks for sticking with us Red Roo(s)

 

[straitman]

Booked my second ever such award today.

My booking required 5 legs, 4 in J and 1 in Y as there was no J on the leg. I rang just on 5pm and got Mary who despite have no real prior knowledge worked her way through it all and did a very good job in the end. Mary needed to get help a couple of times and the process took about 50 minutes but all was done in good humour and I was not in a hurry.

MEL-ADL-ASP (J) & AYQ-ASP(Y)-ADL-MEL (J)
The classic would have cost 72,000 points and $254.95pp.
Offered cost for the ASA was 72,000 points and $384.66pp or 60,000 points and $478.44.
Earning will be 210SC and 7590 points pp for platinum FF.

 

[Pushka]

50 minutes to do a booking we used to do online?

 

[QF WP]

One wonders how much cost can be attributed to the additional CS time to book ASA's.

I am feeling for all my contacts in QF today, walking on eggshells...

 

[turnip666]

Thanks for sharing your bitter-sweet experience. I've passed on your comments to the team. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.

Had a phone message today advising the booking assistance fee had been refunded.

A nice touch , but what a waste of everyone's time and effort the whole process is, especially given how simple the online process was. Sigh.

 

[Buzzard]

I certainly don't want to see any Qantas employee loose their job so I say this tounge in cheek....

If some staff need to be "let go", then putting xASA's back online would surely free up some people for redeployment or whatever.

 

[asdf]

I am hoping for some advice from those who travel more often than I... having just attempted to book a CBR-BNE-MEL-CBR I was surprised to find that the minimum points offer was 56000 + $591, with another offer for 64000 + $471 or 110,000 outright.

Does this sound reasonable? I was expecting something closer to 56000 + ~$350... But I can't see another similar leg in the spreadsheet. Any advice would be welcome!

 

[ketsuzei]

I am hoping for some advice from those who travel more often than I... having just attempted to book a CBR-BNE-MEL-CBR I was surprised to find that the minimum points offer was 56000 + $591, with another offer for 64000 + $471 or 110,000 outright.

Does this sound reasonable? I was expecting something closer to 56000 + ~$350... But I can't see another similar leg in the spreadsheet. Any advice would be welcome!

It will have been done as three separate legs, 16,000 + 24,000 + 16,000. Adding together relevant legs from the spreadsheet gives just under $480... the CBR-BNE looks to be on the high side to me, though.

 

[ketsuzei]

Actually, there's also a BNE-CBR-MEL listed with a co-payment of $327.30. Adding that to a BNE-MEL at $143.85 gives around $470...

 

[asdf]

Ok, thanks for that explanation, my confusion was that the BNE-MEL-CBR was offered as a classic award option so I didn't realise it would be a 16k+24k leg. Not a great value redemption compared to my previous efforts, but in context it seems that a Y paid fare CBR-BNE return is hard to score under $430 around a weekend...

 

[Newk]

Asdf. I reckon that with the old online booking the kangaroo hopping could be got for same as direct in most/all circumstances it was allowed as a classic award. It was an interesting way of playing the SC game. The enhancements have made it a bit more complex. There is some discussion earlier in the thread about allowed routes etc etc and other criteria. My eyes still glaze over thinking about it so I'm unable to explain it to you as I don't quite understand it myself.
Suffice it to say that the hopping ASAs are often more expensive now.

 

[ketsuzei]

Suffice it to say that the hopping ASAs are often more expensive now.

It's all a bit random. Can still do BNE-SYD-CBR, but others are seemingly verboten.

 

[Newk]

It's all a bit random. Can still do BNE-SYD-CBR, but others are seemingly verboten.

Lol. I had you pegged as someone who understood it all

 

[ketsuzei]

Lol. I had you pegged as someone who understood it all

You must have me confused with someone else

Best I know as of now comes from a combination of talking with QFF (and as of this morning formerly QFF) friends, and a look at "Fare Information" using Expert Flyer.

For whatever reason, BNE-MEL is only considered as a direct fare. So indirects count as individual legs.

But BNE-CBR has BNE-SYD-CBR as a permitted routing, so you can book it for 16,000 in J albeit with a relatively high cash payment.

Still haven't found an example where that sort of thing does't explain JASA points pricing.

 

[medhead]

I did an online ASA the other week, aka points plus pay, the cash co-pay was half of the classic award.

 

[ketsuzei]

I did an online ASA the other week, aka points plus pay, the cash co-pay was half of the classic award.

Do feel free to share?

 

[asdf]

I did an online ASA the other week, aka points plus pay, the cash co-pay was half of the classic award.

Each time I've tried to do this for a J fare I get the 'there was a problem with points plus pay... unavailable for this journey' error. Would be very interested to know how you successfully did this.

 

[legroom]

Each time I've tried to do this for a J fare I get the 'there was a problem with points plus pay... unavailable for this journey' error. Would be very interested to know how you successfully did this.

Sounds like you are using the website to make a booking for JASA.

If so, we are not talking about the same thing.

The stuff we are talking about here - JASA - could only be booked by phone, preferably after you have identified some available Classic Awards seat on QF site first.

The ASA you are looking at on the website is not the JASA we are talking about.

 

[asdf]

Sounds like you are using the website to make a booking for JASA.

If so, we are not talking about the same thing.

The stuff we are talking about here - JASA - could only be booked by phone, preferably after you have identified some available Classic Awards seat on QF site first.

The ASA you are looking at on the website is not the JASA we are talking about.

I have booked a number of JASAs, both on the website until last year and over the phone since QF's decision to withdraw them from the online booking system.

I am not sure what JASA you are talking about, can you please explain as your post is not clear to me.