Intentionally triggering a targeted 50% bonus SC promo

[themaiz]

I can now advise the outcome from a joyous weekend of QF site crawling in support of this thread. Yes, there's no sport as satisfying as actually testing a theory.

• Friday: I took a revenue domestic booking all the way to payment, and then didn't pay.
• Saturday morning: a friendly email arrived, identifying that my incomplete reservation had been politely held over for me (with a locator) until 2359 Saturday. Sure enough, there was the segment and locator in my reservations list. When I went into the record, it offered me a big red "click here to pay" box for the correct amount. Very effective. So... I did nothing. I figured I'd like to see what would happen, and very low likelihood of the fare vanishing. I was right.
• Sunday morning: I went into my reservations list and the segment and its locator had vanished. I checked the locator, and there was no such trip found. Good stuff.
• Sunday afternoon: I made the same revenue reservation, starting from scratch (there's a sale on, folks!). I took that to completion, so now I have a PNR. I went back into the reservations list to discover TWO trips on the same plane: one with the locator from the transaction I'd just done, and another that I couldn't identify (and not the same as the self-cancelled segment).

PANIC!! Had I accidentally gone brainless and spent household money twice on the same flight segment??

I called QF, and the agent told me that "yes, it sometimes does that as a hangover from the un-completed segment". My heart-rate settled a bit. She dismissed the rogue PNR, and told me all would be good with the world.

Outcome: all good with the world.

So now the money shot. What happened? Answer: not even a hint of an offer. I wasn't even sent a "would you like a hotel with that?" email. Certainly no SC.

Giving up until after my anniversary passes on 29 Feb. Are you listening, Mr AI Reservations System?

 

[flychrisfly]

I took the first trip i'd booked under the 50% bonus SCs offer on Saturday. The standard SCs posted on Saturday very quickly, and the bonus SCs posted on Sunday. Happy days! One more trip next weekend to lock in Platinum for another 13.5 months.

 

[Tropic]

Bingo !! 50% SC email just arrived...time to book some flights exPER . But where to... NZ prob safest option?

 

[themaiz]

Still no offers here!

 

[sudoer]

50% SC email just arrived

Which city does the email suggest you fly to? and which months were you searching for that route?

Still no offers here!

What routes/months are you searching?

I just received a 50% bonus credit offer (6 days to book with flights through to 20 June). My milestone is 30 June and only need 15 status credits to retain gold. Route I was searching numerous times was SYD-LHR.

^ Cross posting from the other Bonus SC thread as a data point.

 

[Ade]

Likewise, no offers so far

@sbor90

Routes I'm searching :

SYD/MEL/BNE/OOL - AKL/CHC/WLG/DUD
SYD/MEL/BNE/OOL - SIN - CMB - MAA/DEL
SYD/MEL/BNE/OOL - DXB - MAA/DEL

No luck so far

 

[sudoer]

SYD/MEL/BNE/OOL - AKL/CHC/WLG/DUD

I'd keep pushing SYD-NZ routes where they have proper competition on their own metal, for travel over the next couple of months. The other routes are unlikely to be targeted given Qantas don't fly own metal to MAA/DEL.

 

[Tropic]

Which city does the email suggest you fly to? and which months were you searching for

PER CHC in Feb... as per the manual...

 

[AIRwin]

Out of the blue I received a targeted offer yesterday morning - ironically to the same destination which I recently booked during the DSC promotion and haven't searched since...

 

[VPS]

I got a Sydney 50% DSC the other day and deleted it - need DSC at least

 

[Kane]

Just got an 50% status offer OZ-CMB on QF code, I did do a little searching a few days earlier but didn't proceed to the booking stage though.

 

[teamhamsandwich]

I've had travel to Singapore and Tokyo in the last 3 months. Yesterday I get a targeted double status credit offer for travel to Singapore and Japan. I think the searches were too long ago to be triggering this, and now past travel is triggering?

 

[teamhamsandwich]

I've had travel to Singapore and Tokyo in the last 3 months. Yesterday I get a targeted double status credit offer for travel to Singapore and Japan. I think the searches were too long ago to be triggering this, and now past travel is triggering?

Seems this might be different as I'm see reports others also got this.

 

[dairyfloss]

I've had travel to Singapore and Tokyo in the last 3 months. Yesterday I get a targeted double status credit offer for travel to Singapore and Japan. I think the searches were too long ago to be triggering this, and now past travel is triggering?

I got the same. Only trigger i could think of was that I had a QF booking to Singapore that I had to cancel a couple of weeks back. That booking is now sitting as a credit voucher for when things get back to whatever 'normal' looks like, after COVID-19.

Interestingly, and unlike the others of late, the T&Cs of this one appear to restrict the DSCs to ECONOMY flights booked into SG & JP, whereas the other promos called out a destination in the subject and body text, but the T&Cs showed they were open to any QF marketed and operated flights.



Cheers,
Matt.

 

[AIRwin]

Interestingly, and unlike the others of late, the T&Cs of this one appear to restrict the DSCs to flights booked into SG & JP, whereas the other promos called out a destination in the subject and body text, but the T&Cs showed they were open to any QF marketed and operated flights.

Mine from last week was not restricted to the destination (CGK) specified...