Qantas DSC October 2024 Offer - book by 31/10/24 & fly 1/11/24-19/10/25

[justinbrett]

QF’s IT systems use GMT/UTC anyway I think despite what the T&Cs say. There’s most likely a greater risk of a morning booking at the start of the promo not crediting than a booking made at the end of the period.

That’s been fixed. I’d stick to local time. Even the most junior developer knows how to account for time zones in code.

 

[Doddler]

Booked a whole bunch of flights, some of which I'll need to change but that's fine. Interestingly, Business Sale fares were cheaper than Flex Economy for some of them - with even better change/cancellation conditions. Wonder why anyone would buy Flex Economy in that case?

 

[RSD]

Booked a whole bunch of flights, some of which I'll need to change but that's fine. Interestingly, Business Sale fares were cheaper than Flex Economy for some of them - with even better change/cancellation conditions. Wonder why anyone would buy Flex Economy in that case?

...probably because they didn't look at the J prices! I must admit that I didn't when I booked my China trip. What routes did you find J sale prices to be better than Y Flex?

 

[Doddler]

...probably because they didn't look at the J prices! I must admit that I didn't when I booked my China trip. What routes did you find J sale prices to be better than Y Flex?

Just domestic routes. For example, MEL to Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Perth etc.
For example, Business fare to Perth OW is $110 cheaper than Flex Economy, earns 50% more points, twice the SCs, and is free to cancel for full refund ($99 for FlexEcon).

 

[RSD]

Just domestic routes. For example, MEL to Canberra, Sydney, Newcastle, Perth etc.
For example, Business fare to Perth OW is $110 cheaper than Flex Economy, earns 50% more points, twice the SCs, and is free to cancel for full refund ($99 for FlexEcon).

Many thanks - that is great to know as I am going to need to book a flight to Perth to deliver a not very subtle message to the board of an ASX listed company that I hold shares in at the upcoming AGM - we need a new board basically.

 

[AFrequentFlyer]

Another welcome to AFF @AFrequentFlyer

IME, had a DSC flight cancelled by Qantas, took flight credit and retained PNR.
It would be PNR created in DSC booking period, flight credit anytime later.
As long as you fly before the end of travel period.

Thank you for the welcome - and thank you for that information. Will give it a shot down the track with the booking I made yesterday.

 

[AFrequentFlyer]

Booked a whole bunch of flights, some of which I'll need to change but that's fine. Interestingly, Business Sale fares were cheaper than Flex Economy for some of them - with even better change/cancellation conditions. Wonder why anyone would buy Flex Economy in that case?

I had the same experience with the last DSC period.

I booked a year worth of work flights between MEL and BNE - business class fares were $499 one way. Flex economy fares in most instances were either more expensive or almost as expensive. They ended up being great value at 80 SC x 2 for $499. Same fares now are $602, so they've gone up since then.

 

[dandandan]

Another welcome to AFF @AFrequentFlyer

IME, had a DSC flight cancelled by Qantas, took flight credit and retained PNR.
It would be PNR created in DSC booking period, flight credit anytime later.
As long as you fly before the end of travel period.

Just checking, so if Qantas cancels and you take the flight credit, there is obviously no $99 cancel fee and the flight credit allows you to book any fares class, whereas if you want to book a lower class with the flexi, you need to cancel pay the $99 cancel fee and you can do that. Otherwise if you want to just change the flexi, you have to book the new flight in flexi or higher.?

 

[Cynicor]

Booked a whole bunch of flights, some of which I'll need to change but that's fine. Interestingly, Business Sale fares were cheaper than Flex Economy for some of them - with even better change/cancellation conditions. Wonder why anyone would buy Flex Economy in that case?

Companies that restrict employees to Y only no matter what

 

[CaptJCool]

...probably because they didn't look at the J prices! I must admit that I didn't when I booked my China trip. What routes did you find J sale prices to be better than Y Flex?

The QF J fares are long running lower for longer since August 2023

However they go up 6.5 weeks and then again 4 weeks ahead of flight date and stay up

 

[dairyfloss]

Companies that restrict employees to Y only no matter what

Yep - ours wouldn’t even display the various J fare buckets in the search, so we’d never know!

 

[RSD]

The QF J fares are long running lower for longer since August 2023

However they go up 6.5 weeks and then again 4 weeks ahead of flight date and stay up

That is really good to know! Many thanks!

 

[Flyfrequently]

Just checking, so if Qantas cancels and you take the flight credit, there is obviously no $99 cancel fee and the flight credit allows you to book any fares class, whereas if you want to book a lower class with the flexi, you need to cancel pay the $99 cancel fee and you can do that. Otherwise if you want to just change the flexi, you have to book the new flight in flexi or higher.?

To confirm @dandandan there is no cancellation fee, though when I called Qantas, agent was happy to do it with me on the phone (he said sometimes the system defaults to taking the fee.)

I then booked same class J, to different destination and paid the fare difference. Flight was originally MEL-ADL, changed to MEL-CNS
I haven't changed a flexible fare, others may be able to comment.

 

[Doddler]

Just checking, so if Qantas cancels and you take the flight credit, there is obviously no $99 cancel fee and the flight credit allows you to book any fares class, whereas if you want to book a lower class with the flexi, you need to cancel pay the $99 cancel fee and you can do that. Otherwise if you want to just change the flexi, you have to book the new flight in flexi or higher.?

Pretty sure Economy Flex allow a no-fee cancellation for flight credit, with which you can use towards any class of flight.

 

[Vic]

It sounds like you controlled your own destiny with that one. But the PNR could have been created before the hour ticked over anyway. You could give them a call to find out the exact booking creation time.

Yes and no. I forgot it was a high demand period and hence the website would be slow.
Thanks for the suggestion to ring and the hope. End of the day the double isn't critical, I have at least 4 other overseas trips next year, including one that is guaranteed business, funded by someone else. Happy to wait and see what happens.
I guess in this case, if it wasn't for the double SC I probably would've used on of my Amex Qatar cash backs, Qatar are one stop to ATL without needing to transit LAX.

 

[Vic]

QF’s IT systems use GMT/UTC anyway I think despite what the T&Cs say. There’s most likely a greater risk of a morning booking at the start of the promo not crediting than a booking made at the end of the period.

Yep, this is why sites say "check for new rewards X days before departure at 10am Queensland time since this is at midnight UTC.

That really doesn't make sense, and I see this reasoning on here a fair bit. All that means is to get Midnight AEDT they end the promo at 1300 UTC.
That's how time zones work.

That’s been fixed. I’d stick to local time. Even the most junior developer knows how to account for time zones in code.

 

[QPProletarian]

Yes and no. I forgot it was a high demand period and hence the website would be slow.
Thanks for the suggestion to ring and the hope. End of the day the double isn't critical, I have at least 4 other overseas trips next year, including one that is guaranteed business, funded by someone else. Happy to wait and see what happens.
I guess in this case, if it wasn't for the double SC I probably would've used on of my Amex Qatar case backs, Qatar are one stop to ATL without needing to transit LAX.

I'm in the same position, I would've just booked with AA.

Indeed it was hard to get the multi-city engine to not force me on the ineligible codeshares.

Have little faith in getting an accurate answer from the call centre.

 

[fletty]

That really doesn't make sense, and I see this reasoning on here a fair bit. All that means is to get Midnight AEDT they end the promo at 1300 UTC.
That's how time zones work.

I don't disagree with the date and times in the terms, but some of their systems run off UTC and people have had trouble with DSC before when booking early in the first day so I'd personally avoid the +/-10hrs of the promotion period to be safe.

 

[JohnK]

This thread is not as long as it has usually been through the years.

I'm so glad that I didn't feel the need to book any flights, although double points would have been more preferable over double SCs.

 

[CaptJCool]

I think I ended up making one revenue booking seeing I’m no longer in need of SCs