Qantas Frequent Flyer will end its partnership with Quandoo, which powers Qantas Restaurants, on 1 April 2023.
Currently, you can earn 100 points per diner when reserving a restaurant table through Quandoo or Qantas Restaurants. You can also earn an easy (and free) 900 Qantas points by signing up for a Quandoo account and downloading the Quandoo app.
If you haven’t already done so, you can still earn those bonus Qantas points via Quandoo until 31 March 2023! You’ll get 400 Qantas points when you create a free Quandoo account and link your Qantas Frequent Flyer account. And you can get an additional 500 Qantas points by then downloading and logging into the Quandoo app.
But you won’t be able to earn Qantas points with Quandoo from 1 April 2023. This notice now appears on the Quandoo website:
Notice: Effective from 1 April 2023, Qantas Frequent Flyers will no longer earn Qantas Points with Quandoo. This includes reservations made via Quandoo.com or the Quandoo App and dined, creating a new Quandoo account and linking your Qantas Frequent Flyer membership number or downloading the Quandoo App and logging in until 31 March 2023.
And this notice currently appears on the Qantas Restaurants booking page:
Earn 100 Qantas Points per diner when you book via Qantas Restaurants, powered by Quandoo, and dine until 31 March. Effective from 1 April 2023, Qantas Frequent Flyers will no longer earn Qantas Points via Qantas Restaurants.
Off again, on again
The previous iteration of Qantas Restaurants, which was powered by Dimmi, closed down in 2018. The following year, Qantas Restaurants came back thanks to a new partnership with Quandoo.
Who knows – maybe Qantas Restaurants will return in the future, in partnership with a new platform?
Velocity Frequent Flyer also used to have a partnership with OpenTable that allowed members to earn Velocity points for restaurant bookings. That partnership ended in 2019.
In the meantime, you can still earn Qantas points by dining out at Seagrass Boutique Hospitality Group restaurants including Italian Street Kitchen and The Meat & Wine Co.
Of course, you can also continue to earn lots of bonus points through Qantas Wine!
Other free ways to earn Qantas points
Although the option to earn points for booking restaurants through Quandoo is ending on 31 March 2023, there are still plenty of other free ways to earn Qantas points! For example, you could earn points for completing your step and sleep challenges in the Qantas Wellbeing App or by completing Red Planet surveys.
Read our guide to earning free Qantas points for more ideas!
