Qantas double status credits: Register & book between 12-18 March 2025

[Vic]

It’s not illogical at all. QANTAS uses an airline booking system used globally and the default timezone for many computer systems is UTC.

Setting up a promo to use AEDT would take a little extra work. Maybe QF now does that, but if they haven’t and it still runs on UTC then bookings made just after the end of the promo dates might get DSC, but I would never risk it and you wouldn’t have a leg to stand on challenging not getting DSC for such a booking.

Whilst I do have WP, I would prefer not to have to chase missing DSCs so I like to book after midnight UTC on the opening day of the promo and also avoid booking too close to the end of the promo as well.

The words in the Ts&Cs always state AU time, it has always been like this be it DSC, double points or any other offer. The booking engine works in UTC and it has always been like this. It is the way the booking engines work and local time zone is just configuration, hotel systems work the same.

To your second point, you can actually book flights past midnight on the last day so depending on your time zone and in this case you could book until around 11am SYD/ MEL time on 19 Mar and DSC would still apply. I have tested this theory in during previous DSC and other offers and it worked.

A question for both of you: Do you understand how timezones work?
Do you think that Qantas, an international airline, does not understand how timezones work? Are you seriously suggesting that Sabre, Amadeus and the other one have developed these systems used by 100s of airlines and they do not understand how time zones work?

It is illogical.

They set up the promo based on East coat time - might be AEDT or might be AEST. Right at the moment midnight in Sydney is 13:00 UTC the day before. Midnight AEDT is 13:00 UTC!
midnight UTC would be 11:00 AEDT. If they set it up on midnight AEDT they are not setting it to 11 hours after the promo starts.

@Matt_01 you claim you've booked 11 hours after and got DSC. Maybe on the last one - i haven't checked if I got DSC for a booking at 00:02. But otherwise, not my experience over 15+ years of DSC promos.

Edit: as platinum I've never really found contacting Qantas about this stuff to be painful. YMMV

 

[Vic]

I totally agree as during the first DSC offer in 2017 I have made around 10-15 booking by around 8am on day 1. Yes I had to go through the pain of dealing with QF to get the DSCs manually applied and as you are aware I was P1 at the time and it was not easy. I am not 100% sure but by the second general offer in 2018 I was posting about booking post midnight (UTC) on day one or around 10-11am based on your local time zone. Edit I was Melbourne based at this time.

People seem to forget or are unaware that most booking engines are not owned by the airlines, rather they are third party global systems that are just skinned, configured and at times limited customisations for the airline needs.

Third party global systems that do not understand timezones. ok then (actually, this is precisely my point. These are global systems, it is illogical to suggest they can't do timezones)

Maybe it's just you, 'cause I had no such problems in 2017, 2018 or ever.

 

[Matt_01]

@Vic I fully understand how time zones work and can only speak from my experience and also employing developers that have worked for the likes of Amadeus, Sabre and major airlines. I have been flying for many years and I must have missed the 15+ years of DSC promos as to the the best of my knowledge they only started in early 2017.

 

[RSD]

@Vic I fully understand how time zones work and can only speak from my experience and also employing developers that have worked for the likes of Amadeus, Sabre and major airlines. I have been flying for many years and I must have missed the 15+ years of DSC promos as to the the best of my knowledge they only started in early 2017.

They definitely started earlier than that - I remember doing one about 15 years ago down the east coast of Australia - the guy sitting next to me in J was doing the same thing!

 

[mick]

They definitely started earlier than that - I remember doing one about 15 years ago down the east coast of Australia - the guy sitting next to me in J was doing the same thing!

My current email address started in 2012 and I found this, so 15 years ago doesn't sound too far fetched:

 

[RSD]

My current email address started in 2012 and I found this, so 15 years ago doesn't sound too far fetched:

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The T&C's look like they were a lot simpler then!

 

[sudoer]

The T&C's look like they were a lot simpler then!

Simpler and fairer.

 

[RSD]

Simpler and fairer.

I think Qantas were yet to add the word "enhancement" to their vocabulary back then.

 

[SYD]

My current email address started in 2012 and I found this, so 15 years ago doesn't sound too far fetched:

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2010 is the earliest email for DSC that I have.

There’s a thread here with the history.

 

[Matt_01]

For those that have posted about DSCs prior to 2017, I stand corrected.

 

[DC3]

Is there any chance of posts drifting back towards the actual topic in the next day or two, rather than being a test of who can remember what may or may not have happened a decade ago?

 

[levelnine]

Each year Qantas updates the T&Cs. Each year Qantas updates next to nothing on the backend.

Some day that will change, but I have my suspicions that day is not today.

 

[GJHBologna]

I can’t find any SC runs for the prices in the original AFF article. What’s the story there?

 

[RSD]

Is there any chance of posts drifting back towards the actual topic in the next day or two, rather than being a test of who can remember what may or may not have happened a decade ago?

Where's the fun in that? It wouldn't be AFF if the threads stayed on topic!

 

[mviy]

I can’t find any SC runs for the prices in the original AFF article. What’s the story there?

Those fares can sell out. Also, it helps to be flexible as to when you wish to travel, avoid school holidays and other peak times.

 

[DC3]

Where's the fun in that? It wouldn't be AFF if the threads stayed on topic!

Perhaps I could start a new thread about “DSC: Who can remember what may or may not have happened a decade ago”. This may assist. Or, maybe not, in case it highlights some cognitive impairment.

 

[JohnM]

Watching on in amusement.

I've never done a status run or chased DSCs - but I can see why others would. My brother does it

I kept WP for c. 20 years, and hit LTG way back in 2008, on the back of mainly an annual DONEx. Now 3x LTG, but with no prospect in making LTP, DSCs or not.

I finally invoked the walk of shame to utilise LTG a year or so ago and there I will stay. It had to happen one day.

But keep up the entertainment.

 

[DC3]

… I finally invoked the walk of shame to utilise LTG a year or so ago …

There’s nothing quite like the cringeworthy turn into the Qantas Pub while those heading to the Business Lounge whisper while pointing and smirking at you.

 

[JohnM]

There’s nothing quite like the cringeworthy turn into the Qantas Pub while those heading to the Business Lounge whisper while pointing and smirking at you.

But if I'm in J on points...

 

[DC3]

But if I'm in J on points...

WPs can see through that. You can sense it.