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

[AstroDamo]

I have a little predicament I booked a FASA from PER - LHR via MEL, before the changes, now the MEL-LHR time has changed I have a 12 hour connection in MEL and a stupidly early start in PER.

There is a later flight with a four hour connection still available but I worry if I change that I will lose the status credits I'm meant to earn?

 

[cove]

Long cuts like that AstroDamo are ending this June for points flyers so if status credits remain important you should probably suck it up and fly the stupid time.
Mrscove is on the home stretch to get to Lifetime Gold so I get twitchy when she thinks a stupid o'clock JASA needs to be changed.

 

[hossein_au]

I have a little predicament I booked a FASA from PER - LHR via MEL, before the changes, now the MEL-LHR time has changed I have a 12 hour connection in MEL and a stupidly early start in PER.

There is a later flight with a four hour connection still available but I worry if I change that I will lose the status credits I'm meant to earn?

You CAN change your flight date/time if there is availability, and still earn the SCs. When you call QF, start by clearly saying "I have one of those old Any Seat Award bookings that earns SCs and I like to make a change..." I have made a few changes this way and that all have indeed earned SCs.

 

[pagingjoan]

You CAN change your flight date/time if there is availability, and still earn the SCs. When you call QF, start by clearly saying "I have one of those old Any Seat Award bookings that earns SCs and I like to make a change..." I have made a few changes this way and that all have indeed earned SCs.

That was my understanding, too.
Does anyone have evidence that counters Hossein's experience?
I have an existing precious FASA that may need a change - but I'm hoping not, so that the issue is avoided.

 

[hossein_au]

That was my understanding, too.
Does anyone have evidence that counters Hossein's experience?
I have an existing precious FASA that may need a change - but I'm hoping not, so that the issue is avoided.

I literally just arrived in CBR from a European JASA. Just before I left I noticed F seats availability. I called and asked to change my JASA to FASA. The operator knew exactly what I wanted to do, put me on hold for a few minutes, and came back and said all was ok, and I'd be earning F SCs and points. Recalculation of fees, however, resulted in well over $1000 of price difference (I was told it was mainly due to currency fluctuation between the time of my original flight and the call in late December). Note I had already paid about $2200 in QF and other fees for the original JASA. I declined the offer and stayed with JASA as I don't need the SCs and the price difference was not justified I thought. Points for my outbound flights have already posted on the account.

 

[zainman]

I literally just arrived in CBR from a European JASA. Just before I left I noticed F seats availability. I called and asked to change my JASA to FASA. The operator knew exactly what I wanted to do, put me on hold for a few minutes, and came back and said all was ok, and I'd be earning F SCs and points. Recalculation of fees, however, resulted in well over $1000 of price difference (I was told it was mainly due to currency fluctuation between the time of my original flight and the call in late December). Note I had already paid about $2200 in QF and other fees for the original JASA. I declined the offer and stayed with JASA as I don't need the SCs and the price difference was not justified I thought. Points for my outbound flights have already posted on the account.

So that cash component had you taken up the offer would have been over $3k??????

 

[serfty]

Of course it is possible to request a points upgrade to First on a JASA. With P class availability your chances would have been good.

 

[pplion]

Hi all

Travelling SYD/MEL/HBA tomorrow on a JASA 'any seat award booked into U class' made back in April. Can anyone confirm that these types of trips are still initially crediting as nil status and being manually adjusted within a week or two?

Many thanks.

 

[ComeFlyWithMe]

Hi all

Travelling SYD/MEL/HBA tomorrow on a JASA 'any seat award booked into U class' made back in April. Can anyone confirm that these types of trips are still initially crediting as nil status and being manually adjusted within a week or two?

Many thanks.

Correct as per my experience. Actually took 2 days for mine, 4 days for the other half's SCs and points to post.

 

[pplion]

Great, thanks. I'm sure nothing could go wrong from here....

 

[ComeFlyWithMe]

I literally just arrived in CBR from a European JASA. Just before I left I noticed F seats availability. I called and asked to change my JASA to FASA. The operator knew exactly what I wanted to do, put me on hold for a few minutes, and came back and said all was ok, and I'd be earning F SCs and points. Recalculation of fees, however, resulted in well over $1000 of price difference (I was told it was mainly due to currency fluctuation between the time of my original flight and the call in late December). Note I had already paid about $2200 in QF and other fees for the original JASA. I declined the offer and stayed with JASA as I don't need the SCs and the price difference was not justified I thought. Points for my outbound flights have already posted on the account.

I would have taken it for the extra $1000, but that's just me.

 

[hossein_au]

So that cash component had you taken up the offer would have been over $3k??????

WELL over $3k. I could have easily got F flights using USDM or LM for that kind of money. I got onto JASA just before they disappeared and this was my last ever JASA. Other than earning SCs (which is now gone), using QF points for flights has become pointless (cheap pun).

 

[Princess Fiona]

I would have taken it for the extra $1000, but that's just me.

I agree, it would have "cost" me $600 worth of points to upgrade J-F, I'd regard the extra $400 to earn F SC and points as money well spent.

EDIT: The original $2.2K spend does sound a little on the high side though.
I have a rtn FASA SYD-LHR which cost less than this to book.

 

[ketsuzei]

EDIT: The original $2.2K spend does sound a little on the high side though.

Indeed. I thought it was more like $1,400.

 

[hossein_au]

I agree, it would have "cost" me $600 worth of points to upgrade J-F, I'd regard the extra $400 to earn F SC and points as money well spent.

EDIT: The original $2.2K spend does sound a little on the high side though.
I have a rtn FASA SYD-LHR which cost less than this to book.

The added cost was more like $1500 not $1000. Considering the initial $2200, it would have been well over $3500.

 

[hossein_au]

Indeed. I thought it was more like $1,400.

It is about $1400 for award J bookings to LHR. This was JASA, booked after they had started to increase the prices on almost daily basis leading up to the July cut-off. The exact figure was $2,273.96.

 

[amaroo]

Data point. May last year booked 2 x FASA SYD-LHR-SYD for travel April this year - cash component was $4008 or $2004pp.

I then paid through the nose to get the bookend BNE-SYD flights added a day after booking each leg.

SYD-LHR = $1,696.54/2 = $848.27pp
LHR-SYD = $2,310.84/2 = $1,155.42pp

 

[zainman]

The added cost was more like $1500 not $1000. Considering the initial $2200, it would have been well over $3500.

Now that's just ridiculous.. so to summarise. $3500 cash PLUS some 300,000 odd frequent flyer points? LOL

I know you can get J with USDM/LM to Europe for under $4k but how much would F cost?

 

[ComeFlyWithMe]

Now that's just ridiculous.. so to summarise. $3500 cash PLUS some 300,000 odd frequent flyer points? LOL

I know you can get J with USDM/LM to Europe for under $4k but how much would F cost?

$12k+ on QF

 

[Princess Fiona]

The added cost was more like $1500 not $1000. Considering the initial $2200, it would have been well over $3500.

Apologies I took "well over a $1000" to be a $1000.
Overall I agree that's pretty steep.

EDIT: I've just looked up the costs I paid for my rtn FASA and it was $800 SYD-MEL-LHR and $1400 LHR-MEL-SYD. Very similar to your initial JASA outlay.