Qantas rolls out Classic Plus Flight Rewards

[levelnine]

So I’ve put my ‘money’ where my mouth is and used today’s USA sale to book PER-LAX in J Classic Plus for 456k points + $1312.

This is going to be the strategy going forward for anyone unable to request the release of award seats.

It is a brutal devaluation — approximately double the cost of a classic award seat at current price levels.

It is even more brutal when you consider you're only getting 1.35c/pt in value once you take into account the points you're not acquiring that you would have acquired if you bought the revenue fare as a SG member (ie the value of 456K points + $1312 needs to be compared against the $8152 cash fare + 50K points earn on a PER-SYD-LAX rt in discount J).

 

[Doctore1003]

This is going to be the strategy going forward for anyone unable to request the release of award seats.

It is a brutal devaluation — approximately double the cost of a classic award seat at current price levels.

It is even more brutal when you consider you're only getting 1.35c/pt in value once you take into account the points you're not acquiring that you would have acquired if you bought the revenue fare as a SG member (ie the value of 456K points + $1312 needs to be compared against the $8152 cash fare + 50K points earn on a PER-SYD-LAX rt in discount J).

Yes, good points. I'm happy because I got the dates I wanted, just a few months out from travel, and my family is awash with Qantas Points (over 5 million), so it's less than a 10% hit to the account. Plus I need the SCs.

I recognise this is a special situation. I guess my point is there are certain circumstances where CR+ works.

I could have flown SQ for 288 KrisFlyer miles, but with some tricky layovers, and not my exact dates. Those miles are more valuable to me for flying to Europe, where Qantas CR+ isn't going to be as useful.