I think the days when this is the majority is likely over. With each new participant, they join with the knowledge of "cheap flight" from tiktok and other travel vloggers.
Yes that is correct, however my question is how are we supposed to know what dates have J or better availability and explicitly exclude Y? This worked perfectly well before the "enhancements".
I would think this would be a good show of consumer force, but don't think this would happen in Australia. Firstly, consumers are mostly ambivalent, sure they'll complain, but they'll continue just going to Colesworths regardless, there isn't the compeitition to make these kinds of decisions on where to shop, each time. Or, secondly, where QFF points can be earned, their pricing is already so vastly different to other options, that anyone basing decisions on price, would already have moved onto another provider. So the QFF point collecting diehards *are* already their customers.
See also "What's the best way of upgrading my economy sale seat to a business class experience using the fewest points?"Actually noise cancelling headphones are apparently the new toaster for QFF
My comments are in perfect alignment. People should not convert WW points to Qantas points because they are buying them at the rate of 1c/pt — that's a very high rate — and you can get far more point for far cheaper with credit card bonuses. But people do convert them because there is the opportunity to redeem them for much higher than that — 2-6c/pt. If that 2-6c/pt option went away, even fewer people would opt for the WW points conversion option because it has gone from marginal value to negative value (once you take into account the loss of points/SC with Rewards+).
To some extent, although on Facebook you read a post every day about someone wanting to collect more points and moving their shopping over to WW to do it. In any event, my points is that once you cap redemptions at 1c/pt, these diehards go away. The outsized value is gone, which is what made them into diehards in the first place.
Yes agree 100% most people don't care, however I'm sure a lot do. I was purely highlighting an issue that I for one have used regularly for many years and now it seems to have been enhanced.
Again, use multicity tool, select flexible with dates and the calendar view showing (alleged) cabin availability view.
Yes,I am sitting on some WW dollars. They are really there to get across the line for PC/PCP I needed, otherwise I might just use them at WW.
That is beside the point. The opportunity cost is the $10 off at WW on your next shop instead of 1000 FF points.
Ah yes I read that as the cost to get those 2k WWR points in the first place, not the value of 1000 QFF pegged to the $10 discount value.
As I have reported earlier, this has been my experience in recent weeks, also.
Around 76% now. Pretty much every investor presentation in the past few years has that dropping to low 50s over the next five years.
Well, if that was the question (which I don't think it is), I'd go for $10 of my groceries any day. For reasons obvious to most.
I don’t misunderstand you at all. QFF loses money off people like you (and me) who analyse the cost per point redemption value and maximise redemption value whilst minimising costs. They make money off customers who blindly transact and don’t think about the optimal use of points.
