Will Qantas have a March 2023 double status credit promotion?

[gaz0303]

I’ve just booked 9 domestic segments for travel late March. Double SC offer to drop tomorrow

 

[elanshin]

Why did they then launch a sale involving over 1 million seats?

Other reasons could be to try and reduce the qff points bank balance sheet a bit.
Or it could be as simple as PR. One big complaint in general is how impossible it is to find reward seats.

 

[levelnine]

Other reasons could be to try and reduce the qff points bank balance sheet a bit.
Or it could be as simple as PR. One big complaint in general is how impossible it is to find reward seats.

I'm talking about the sale fares, not the award release.

But as someone said above, it could be a cynical exercise to distract from Qantas' record profits, which is very fair.

 

[gaz0303]

They called them sale fares, but was there a real discount?

 

[jakeseven7]

The moron mainstream media is mind numbingly hilarious on all of this, really.

What don't people understand.

Our second airline in Australia literally collapsed.

The QF Group racked up eyewatering losses.

One half year profit announcement and suddenly all our airlines are knocking on doors and stealing from people in the middle of the night, ripping candy out of babies hands. Its brilliant.

Love it. Good Friday giggles.

 

[dairyfloss]

The moron mainstream media is mind numbingly hilarious on all of this, really.

What don't people understand.

Our second airline in Australia literally collapsed.

The QF Group racked up eyewatering losses.

One half year profit announcement and suddenly all our airlines are knocking on doors and stealing from people in the middle of the night, ripping candy out of babies hands. Its brilliant.

Love it. Good Friday giggles.

True - a sensational half year result, but they are also still sitting on debts of $2.4B. There's no charity coming just yet!

 

[kangarooflyer88]

They called them sale fares, but was there a real discount?

These are discounts relative to what we've been seeing over the past couple of months. You are right that $139 one-way to Melbourne or Brisbane is much more than the $99 I spent last year on the same trip. But fuel prices were much lower and it was practically illegal to travel in Australia at that time.

The moron mainstream media is mind numbingly hilarious on all of this, really.

Is it just me or does it always seem that when the media discusses news items like this it always seems like an advert, like some sort of native advertising experiment gone awry.

 

[Tropic]

always seems like an ad

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

 

[gaz0303]

Is it just me or does it always seem that when the media discusses news items like this it always seems like an advert,

Few journalists left. Most of the media now are content managers.

 

[oz_mark]

Few journalists left. Most of the media now are content managers.

Good journalism is expensive. Everyone wants their news for free.

 

[Tropic]

Good journalism is expensive. Everyone wants their news for free.

Think the point wasnt that news or "good" journalism is expensive, but the fact that obviously paid advertising and marketing blurb is being dressed up as "news" along with all the other propaganda supporting the preferred narrative on mainstream media - no journalism involved. Sourcing news content is actually easy and cheap, its the packaging and delivery infrastructure that costs...

 

[jpp42]

True - a sensational half year result, but they are also still sitting on debts of $2.4B. There's no charity coming just yet!

Well, there is charity for large shareholders - they're doing a share buyback with their extra cash, rather than paying off those debts.

 

[Greg555]

They called them sale fares, but was there a real discount?

No

 

[Greg555]

The moron mainstream media is mind numbingly hilarious on all of this, really.

What don't people understand.

Our second airline in Australia literally collapsed.

The QF Group racked up eyewatering losses.

One half year profit announcement and suddenly all our airlines are knocking on doors and stealing from people in the middle of the night, ripping candy out of babies hands. Its brilliant.

Love it. Good Friday giggles.

Qantas are certainly ripping candy from the hands of loyal customers...
The award drop was a marketing PR scam - and a disaster in execution and no J seats worth having. Worst possible way to reward us.
Seen international flight pricing? Plenty of candy going missing there.
Great half year result - aided by withholding customer refunds to use as working capital again ....?
And judging from my last two flights on a 717 & 787 and visits to SYD international & domestic lounges they've been saving cash on cleaners. All 4 were pig sties.
When will they #SackJoyce

 

[Tropic]

Can feel the rumblings of that QF point devaluation enhancement creeping ever closer...

 

[levelnine]

Can feel the rumblings of that QF point devaluation enhancement creeping ever closer...

This comment from Qantas Loyalty head Olivia Wirth definitely makes it sound like it's on the agenda: “The number of points required to book reward seats hasn’t increased in years, and we’ve been consistently growing the ways that our members can boost their points balance, so these seats represent great value.”

 

[CaptJCool]

They called them sale fares, but was there a real discount?

No

Govt stats show discount tics have risen 50% in price

Domestic Air Fares

Domestic Discount Air Fares Indexes

www.bitre.gov.au

 

[mviy]

This comment from Qantas Loyalty head Olivia Wirth definitely makes it sound like it's on the agenda: “The number of points required to book reward seats hasn’t increased in years, and we’ve been consistently growing the ways that our members can boost their points balance, so these seats represent great value.”

If it makes it significantly easier to get J/F then great. Otherwise I’d feel disappointed after reaching a target number of return trips in points and exceeded it to be back below my target again.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

No

Govt stats show discount tics have risen 50% in price

Domestic Air Fares

Domestic Discount Air Fares Indexes

www.bitre.gov.au

Makes sense, just keeping up with inflation and the rising cost of fuel which I reckon must've gone up by at least 50%!

The only people enjoying this are Qantas stakeholders: the customers, the shareholders and of course the Executive Team. But never mind, keep throwing carrots at the crowd. What's next? Will they add a new chair to the HBA QF Club?

 

[exLXCXFF]

Back to topic please