Qantas double status credits OR double points offer [book 23-28 March 2023]

[Danger]

The best SC run for this promo appears to rack up 1040 SCs (inclusive of DSC), on one ticket, for a mere 2644 AUD or 2.54 AUD/SC, starting from AKL.

A similar run also exists starting from PER for about 200 AUD more.

It is a 14 flight itinerary and takes 5 days to complete. It is most ideal for those who are AKL, SYD or PER based.

It seems AFF now has its own version of the FlyerTalk trick-it thread. How lovely.

Might have missed it but what route is this?

I thought booking OOL-MEL-AKL was crazy enough.

I suspect madrooster would charge for revealing the route.

 

[madrooster]

I suspect madrooster would charge for revealing the route.

Not only that, this is not a run that can be priced online at all and it takes time to build manually in order to ticket the itinerary. The majority of really good runs that I have come across are all manual build tasks and do not price online.

For QFF you can earn QF platinum from scratch on long haul for just 7k AUD in J in 6 flights, or you can go nuts doing a 14 segment itinerary running around AU/NZ.

Neither itinerary prices online. There's multiple ways to earn status at quite reasonable costs.

You'd be surprised what's out there - there are a lot of fares out there that can give fantastic earn to various FFPs but you can't book/price them online. Eg. for APAC based BA members where positioning to Europe to do EU-US runs is less practical and has a larger cost than someone based in Europe, there's AA fares that let you rack up 1440 BA tier points which is almost BA gold/OWE in just one ticket for 4800 AUD or so, which you cannot price online.

 

[exceladdict]

Reward?! first you need to find seats, but the reduced rate of SC earn (assuming you are PC or PC+) means you'd need a number, and quite a bit, of trips to get to 360 - with the associated charges, you may be better off to do a SC run like MEL-SYD-OOL in J (which would get 320 SC with DSC) or say MEL-BNE-CNS/TSV in a mix of J and Y which could earn 360 exactly) for yes, a bit of an outlay, but given the reward SC earn is reduced for dom and trans-tas SC, you'd need more travel than that, assuming you can find it right now, to earn the 180 pre SC to earn.

for example, a MEL/SYD-PER transcon REWARD in J would arn 38 SC one way, so you'd need about 3 of those return to make your 180. Or, MEL/SYD/BNE/ADL-NZ in J earns 32 SC in J, so again you'd need 3 return reward flights to earn enough pre DSC to earn 360.

even if you get creative like MEL-SYD-BNE-PER or something, you'd still need quite a bit of effort to do it with reward seats.

There was a table kicking around comparing distance bands with net SC earned. IIRC the 41.5k was the key.

PER-MEL-CBR-SYD or PER-MEL-SYD-CBR (or vv) if you can get it all in J (is it only the Q400 on that route?) would be 38+18+18 (74) *2 = 148 or 296 return for 83k points - valuing at 1c/p (based on opportunity cost) that's $2.80/sc, plus one night's accom.

If you're platinum and can request seat release or book far enough in advance it's not unfeasible. Added bonus if you want to holiday to PER, SYD or CBR.

 

[_TheTraveller_]

There was a table kicking around comparing distance bands with net SC earned. IIRC the 41.5k was the key.

PER-MEL-CBR-SYD or PER-MEL-SYD-CBR (or vv) if you can get it all in J (is it only the Q400 on that route?) would be 38+18+18 (74) *2 = 148 or 296 return for 83k points - valuing at 1c/p (based on opportunity cost) that's $2.80/sc, plus one night's accom.

If you're platinum and can request seat release or book far enough in advance it's not unfeasible. Added bonus if you want to holiday to PER, SYD or CBR.

If you have AS points it gets even more ridiculous with some great earning potential. You can do silly things like BNE-DRW-ADL-SYD-MEL in J which would be 244SC (with DSC) for 20K points. Finding available will be the difficult part but routing is definitely possible.

 

[eminere]

Apologies if this has been asked and answered. Anyone else getting technical errors when trying to sign up to this promo? Have tried the last 4 days and getting nothing. Thanks

Give the QFF service team (note this is different to the flight bookings call centre) a call and they should be able to help you. I encountered the same issue and it turned out to be a problem with my contact details which they were able to quickly rectify, which then allowed me to register.

 

[Daver6]

Seen a few posts for people asking about good earners ex PER. If you're PC then a J award flight going PER-MEL-SYD-BNE-CNS will cost you 57k points but earn 102 SC base. So with DSC return you'll get 416 SCs. Good option if you're points rich, SC poor. Can can drop off SYD or BNE if need be for a lesser earn but the same points cost.

 

[aaa99]

If you have AS points it gets even more ridiculous with some great earning potential. You can do silly things like BNE-DRW-ADL-SYD-MEL in J which would be 244SC (with DSC) for 20K points. Finding available will be the difficult part but routing is definitely possible.

When booking using AS, it seems like the QF FF cant be added during the online booking process. It defaults to the MP number and wont let me change the program either. If I add this retrospectively via the contact centre (but within the DSC period), would it still count?

Surprisingly not possible through the AS or QF website. I was able to add it be contacting the Alaska help centre, but it also can be done through RJ.com and it reflects.

 

[exceladdict]

Seen a few posts for people asking about good earners ex PER. If you're PC then a J award flight going PER-MEL-SYD-BNE-CNS will cost you 57k points but earn 102 SC base. So with DSC return you'll get 416 SCs. Good option if you're points rich, SC poor. Can can drop off SYD or BNE if need be for a lesser earn but the same points cost.

Oh I like this. Should all have J as well. Have you managed to get through to the payment page online?

 

[_TheTraveller_]

When booking using AS, it seems like the QF FF cant be added during the online booking process. It defaults to the MP number and wont let me change the program either. If I add this retrospectively via the contact centre (but within the DSC period), would it still count?

Surprisingly not possible through the AS or QF website. I was able to add it be contacting the Alaska help centre, but it also can be done through RJ.com and it reflects.

When I book with AS, I don't include any FFP # and just book the ticket as if I was booking it for someone else. Once you get the PNR, you can add it on QF's website.

 

[Daver6]

Oh I like this. Should all have J as well. Have you managed to get through to the payment page online?

I didn't investigate this option. However, I did book PER-MEL-SYD-BNE-CNS-BNE-MEL-PER all in J during the last DSC promo last year. Spent 10 days in CNS for a holiday.

This time around just booked PER-MEL-HBA return for a short holiday in August. (in J using points). That will get me 224SC. I don't need them (except for LTG) but MrsDaver6 does to retain SG.

 

[muzz651]

Not only that, this is not a run that can be priced online at all and it takes time to build manually in order to ticket the itinerary. The majority of really good runs that I have come across are all manual build tasks and do not price online.

For QFF you can earn QF platinum from scratch on long haul for just 7k AUD in J in 6 flights, or you can go nuts doing a 14 segment itinerary running around AU/NZ.

Neither itinerary prices online. There's multiple ways to earn status at quite reasonable costs.

You'd be surprised what's out there - there are a lot of fares out there that can give fantastic earn to various FFPs but you can't book/price them online. Eg. for APAC based BA members where positioning to Europe to do EU-US runs is less practical and has a larger cost than someone based in Europe, there's AA fares that let you rack up 1440 BA tier points which is almost BA gold/OWE in just one ticket for 4800 AUD or so, which you cannot price online.

So @madrooster, when you say "manual build task", you're suggesting the booking needs to be made via an agent?
Looking to do a biz SYD<>ARN June/Aug and drowning in options

 

[madrooster]

So @madrooster, when you say "manual build task", you're suggesting the booking needs to be made via an agent?

Correct. Agents (that know what they're actually doing... not Flight Centre types) can build lots of itineraries that no website will.

 

[Kengyin]

Not sure where to ask this, but I'm curious, do other airlines run double status/tier points promotions as regularly/often as Qantas? Seems like a major perk for flying with Qantas if you are willing to wait for the promotion before buying tickets, a simple return ticket to London on flexible economy to visit family is enough to exceed the threshold for retaining gold during the promotion. I can't think of any way you can as easily get gold on Singapore or Air New Zealand which I've mostly used in the past.

 

[_TheTraveller_]

Not sure where to ask this, but I'm curious, do other airlines run double status/tier points promotions as regularly/often as Qantas? Seems like a major perk for flying with Qantas if you are willing to wait for the promotion before buying tickets, a simple return ticket to London on flexible economy to visit family is enough to exceed the threshold for retaining gold during the promotion. I can't think of any way you can as easily get gold on Singapore or Air New Zealand which I've mostly used in the past.

BA has double tier points with holiday packages. Conditions are 5 day min stay (airfare + hotel) and must originate from the UK I believe. I don't think SQ or NZ has anything similar to DSC/double miles.

 

[Lynda2475]

Virgin ran a DSC about a month before Qantas.

A QF MArch DSC seems to have become a regualr occurrence and is a reliable way to do a status run to maintain status if you dont have sufficient forward bookings.

 

[exceladdict]

I didn't investigate this option. However, I did book PER-MEL-SYD-BNE-CNS-BNE-MEL-PER all in J during the last DSC promo last year. Spent 10 days in CNS for a holiday.

This time around just booked PER-MEL-HBA return for a short holiday in August. (in J using points). That will get me 224SC. I don't need them (except for LTG) but MrsDaver6 does to retain SG.

Sounds great and I may just do the same. I've really struggled to get the engine to offer anything more than three legs, or to make multicity accept two domestic legs on the same day for redemptions. If anyone has tips as to how to make it work I'm all ears!

 

[Daver6]

Sounds great and I may just do the same. I've really struggled to get the engine to offer anything more than three legs, or to make multicity accept two domestic legs on the same day for redemptions. If anyone has tips as to how to make it work I'm all ears!

I suspect I went something like this with the mutli-city engine
1. PER-SYD Day 1
2. SYD-CNS Day 1
3. CNS-PER Future date

You can easily lose hours playing around with dates to try get this to work. I tend to break it down into seperate searches and then putting it all together into a multi-city search once I know the dates will have what I need. Ie, First option find a day with availability. Then I know what time I need to start looking for a the SYD-Cns bit. You get the idea. It's time consuming.

I suspect this is where an EF subscription is worth it. You can always sign up for a free trial.

 

[gethsemene]

Ready to buy HBA -MEL -SYD -LHR return (double domestic for SC earn) can get through past seat selection and then website dies. Guessing I'll have to brave the phone...

 

[sudoer]

Have a few 2+ pax classic awards coming up.. have split the PNRs as an experiment to see whether anyone scores a double shot..

 

[elanshin]

Not sure where to ask this, but I'm curious, do other airlines run double status/tier points promotions as regularly/often as Qantas? Seems like a major perk for flying with Qantas if you are willing to wait for the promotion before buying tickets, a simple return ticket to London on flexible economy to visit family is enough to exceed the threshold for retaining gold during the promotion. I can't think of any way you can as easily get gold on Singapore or Air New Zealand which I've mostly used in the past.

VA in February. They had significantly cheaper options too less than $2 per SC was achievable and since you need less SC for tiers, it would've been much cheaper to hit WP.