How long will QF use DSC promos - Your guess?

[tdimdad]

The DSC promos have been around for quite some time. The first time I came across and used them was in 2019 but QF had offered DSC's already on many years before that.

What's your guess, how permanent is this as a sales promo? Or how many years do you think this kind of offering might have left?

I wish they are more or less permanent but those do change. There surely would be inducements for frequent flyers to remain engaged and thev double status / points seems to work for them at the moment.

 

[Cloud9]

They ever work out how much bacon I consume at Mel DOM J when I land back domestically or internationally, they might stop them overnight...

...then again, my cholesterol levels might mean they don't need to.

 

[elanshin]

The DSC promos have been around for quite some time. The first time I came across and used them was in 2019 but QF had offered DSC's already on many years before that.

What's your guess, how permanent is this as a sales promo? Or how many years do you think this kind of offering might have left?

I wish they are more or less permanent but those do change. There surely would be inducements for frequent flyers to remain engaged and thev double status / points seems to work for them at the moment.

I suspect for quite a while. They've most certainly studied the effects of DSC and how much it affects their forward bookings.

Whether it remains semi predictable might be a different story. Perhaps it becomes targeted in the future instead.

 

[RSD]

I suspect for quite a while. They've most certainly studied the effects of DSC and how much it affects their forward bookings.

Whether it remains semi predictable might be a different story. Perhaps it becomes targeted in the future instead.

I remember doing a DSC run in J down the east coast at least 15 years ago so they have been around a while - the guy in the seat next to me was doing the same thing

 

[flyingfan]

I'm guessing indefinitely as it seems to yield nice sales spikes for QF and as is often said, status doesn't really cost them much to hand out unless pax are actually flying and using the benefits. They don't appear too perturbed about lounge overcrowding - especially when there's the odd QC sale.

Doubt they'll ever get to the level of VA's triple status credits but in this crazy world I wouldn't rule it out 100%!

Chasing SCs is limited to a subset of the QFF population, according to my totally unscientific poll of responses to the DSC campaigns.

 

[shaun_b]

Doubt they'll ever get to the level of VA's triple status credits but in this crazy world I wouldn't rule it out 100%!

For some reason I recall a QF TSC promo in the past, or was I dreaming?

 

[flyingfan]

For some reason I recall a QF TSC promo in the past, or was I dreaming?

Might be the triple points instead, or the joke?

 

[RooFlyer]

I'm guessing indefinitely as it seems to yield nice sales spikes for QF

Even better for Qantas when led or followed by a good sale. Really really gets the cash register jingling with that combination.

 

[shaun_b]

Might be the triple points instead, or the joke?

Ah, it was probably the triple points, not SC.

 

[Hampton Mike]

Hopefully another 16 years by which stage I might be LTP

 

[tdimdad]

Hopefully another 16 years by which stage I might be LTP

Haha, this invites the question of the most yield possible in a status run. If money was no obstacle, you'd construct an outsized RTW with maximum use of QF. I wonder how many base SC's could you get, plus then the doubles for QF segments?