Qantas launches sale with unlimited fee free changes until 2022

[Captain Halliday]

I was totally over thinking it... trying to link planets with obscure airport codes!

 

[jakeseven7]

I was totally over thinking it... trying to link planets with obscure airport codes!

I'm not that smart, apologies for working your brain too hard

 

[NSun]

This sale would be very useful for me if only the AFL schedule had been fixed beyond Round 6, which accounts for a lot of my domestic travel.

 

[jakeseven7]

I missed this part - but welcome news!

Qantas has also announced improvements to its inflight food and drink options, including news that complimentary beer and wine for economy passengers will now be available across all domestic and regional flights, rather than just available to purchase on certain flights.

Qantas trumps Virgin with better deal on waiving change fees

Qantas has trumped Virgin with a significantly more generous policy waiving the fees passengers have to pay to rebook flights.

australianaviation.com.au

 

[Danger]

I missed this part - but welcome news!

Qantas has also announced improvements to its inflight food and drink options, including news that complimentary beer and wine for economy passengers will now be available across all domestic and regional flights, rather than just available to purchase on certain flights.

Qantas trumps Virgin with better deal on waiving change fees

Qantas has trumped Virgin with a significantly more generous policy waiving the fees passengers have to pay to rebook flights.

australianaviation.com.au

Wonderful spin from Tully given (a) arrivals access and (b) spirits in J.

People know exactly what to expect when they book with Qantas, whether its complimentary food and drinks, baggage, fast Wi-Fi or access to dozens of lounges around Australia.

 

[CaptJCool]

Haven’t looked at the booking page for maybe a year....l

forgotten how to play with it. Sighs. Relearning old tricks ......

 

[madrooster]

However it's now even more complex than ever with different layerings of commercial and waiver policies applying to bookings based on book by / travel by dates — rather than retrospectively applying these new rules to existing bookings to try and achieve some kind of uniformity.

This change has been applied retroactively - past tickets issued before 08/02 are also eligible for the unlimited changes without change penalty.

Not to be pedantic, but strictly speaking aren't the "unlimited fee free changes" limited to date changes only? So I'm assuming you can't change your city pairs without incurring the usual change fee for the fare type purchased. Not terrible but also not the "the highest level of flexibility" as Qantas would want you to believe at first blush.

I can confirm it is a broad change fee waiver. So you can re-route, change dates, etc. You can even exchange it for international (but you lose the GST already paid).

 

[jakeseven7]

Well this offer worked for my neighbour who has not set foot on an airline for 11 months (!!!!! Yup that long) to book a quick weekend away next week. You have nothing to lose really even if a state chucks a wobbly on the borders.

Now we just need the trigger happy premiers to calm down a bit too, get some confidence back.

 

[HappyFlyerFamily]

Well this offer worked for my neighbour who has not set foot on an airline for 11 months (!!!!! Yup that long) to book a quick weekend away next week. You have nothing to lose really even if a state chucks a wobbly on the borders.

Now we just need the trigger happy premiers to calm down a bit too, get some confidence back.

Need to figure out how to effectively use my covid flight credits. Apparently covid credits carry original booking terms re change/cancellation. So might need to mix and match different ‘fare’ types eg reward flight where risk of border action, covid credits where no risk.

 

[jakeseven7]

Need to figure out how to effectively use my covid flight credits. Apparently covid credits carry original booking terms re change/cancellation. So might need to mix and match different ‘fare’ types eg reward flight where risk of border action, covid credits where no risk.

Hmmm yes, sorry we burned all our QF credits months ago can’t remember the conditions they carried!

 

[PlaneCrazy]

We just booked SYD <> DRW in business for $499 each way for Friday departure, Sunday return in mid May 2021. We had chosen 30 March 2021 as the start date for our SG challenge, so great timing with these sale fares for us!

Thanks for the heads up. Just booked this for my wife and I at Easter. I had been looking at a number of holiday options but held off as travel was so expensive. I'll take this over a $600 return trip on Jetstar to MCY!

 

[Daver6]

Just a general warning to everyone. I'm looking to book a trip to DRW in May. Based on my previous travel experience, whenever I book something, travel is not allowed. So expect a Covid outbreak in either DRW or PER in the few weeks leading up to my travel. Apologies in advance but at least I've warned you all

 

[AIRwin]

So expect a Covid outbreak in either DRW or PER in the few weeks leading up to my travel.

Not an IQ test - what comes after MEL, ADL, SYD, BNE and PER?

 

[eminere]

I can confirm it is a broad change fee waiver. So you can re-route, change dates, etc. You can even exchange it for international (but you lose the GST already paid).

Where does it actually say that though on the site?

 

[madrooster]

Where does it actually say that though on the site?

No idea. What matters is the fare rules and the fare rules state yes you can freely exchange it.

 

[Jenya]

Haven’t looked at the booking page for maybe a year....l

Well, its user interface still cough.
Can not even get basics right - where is the button to simply swap around origin and destination?
Pisses me off every time I got to plan anything there

 

[ole nimeton]

So I booked a couple of trans-tasman flights to take advantage of the double status credits offer that has just ended. Went to change one of the flights online and the system wants to charge me a $125 change fee per person to move to a different date. This hardly seems in the spirit of the flexible 'fee-free' changes policy advertised with the offer.

I assume Qantas will only change the flight for free by phoning them and will just take the money from the less informed (or time poor) that pay the change fee through the online booking system, when prompted?

 

[AIRwin]

So I booked a couple of trans-tasman flights to take advantage of the double status credits offer that has just ended. Went to change one of the flights online and the system wants to charge me a $125 change fee per person to move to a different date. This hardly seems in the spirit of the flexible 'fee-free' changes policy advertised with the offer.

Do you meet the following conditions?
Enjoy unlimited fee-free changes to your date of travel when you book any Qantas operated trans-Tasman flight between 15 October 2020 and 31 July 2021, for travel between 16 October 2020 and 28 February 2022.

 

[ole nimeton]

Do you meet the following conditions?
Enjoy unlimited fee-free changes to your date of travel when you book any Qantas operated trans-Tasman flight between 15 October 2020 and 31 July 2021, for travel between 16 October 2020 and 28 February 2022.

Yes, I think so. Flight was booked this month for August this year. Want to change to a different day in August this year. It is QF operated.

 

[AIRwin]

Just a general warning to everyone. I'm looking to book a trip to DRW in May. Based on my previous travel experience, whenever I book something, travel is not allowed. So expect a Covid outbreak in either DRW or PER in the few weeks leading up to my travel.

PER as PER-dicted?