Status Runs using Multiple Seats

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So I was doing some late night googling about flights in general, and I came across an interesting page:

Extra Seat (EXST) for Personal Comfort

Customers can purchase extra seat/s on Qantas operated and marketed flights for their personal comfort. If travel includes any codeshare or interline flights, please contact the operating airline for further information.

www.qantas.com

Basically the page details that passengers can book extra adjacent seats for “personal comfort” and explains how to book it from a travel agent perspective. There’s technical information there for how to book it for each booking system too.

In particular, this stood out to me:

“Qantas Frequent Flyers can earn Qantas Points and status credits for each seat purchased.”

So the question then must be asked - If you were planning to do a status run, does this mean you could book an additional “comfort” seat on each leg (assuming QF marketed flight) and earn double status credits, potentially quadruple if during a double SC promotion?

Doing this would obviously double increase the cost, but if you were planning to do multiple back and forth legs, this could potentially be a useful shortcut.

 

[KSC]

Pretty sure special charters don't generally earn points or SC's.



#PartyPooper

Solution would be not charter just book out seats on a regular flight. Probably easier to do with a travel agent, or at auntie Vanessa’s house

 

[nic0]

Pretty sure special charters don't generally earn points or SC's.



#PartyPooper

i fly on one of those regularly and we do get SC, but only 3/4 of sale fare, which ends up being 1/3 as normal flights are always booked flex fare. This is a recent development though, i think before covid there was no SC earn on them.

 

[Ade]

we do get SC, but only 3/4 of sale fare, which ends up being 1/3 as normal flights are always booked flex fare

So when you book a Flex fare on the FIFO/Charter flights, you end up getting only 1/3 of the SC that a regular Flex fare would earn? Say a Flex fare earnt 30SC, your booking, although Flex, only earns 10SC?

 

[dylarr]

SC and points on charter flights depends on whether or not your company has negotiated this with QF.

 

[TY24]

SC and points on charter flights depends on whether or not your company has negotiated this with QF.

This is spot on.

My employer generously pays for full flex fares on our charter flights, so we earn the full 20SC and 1200QP despite being charter flights, some companies aren't as generous.