Optus has brought back its popular $99 Qantas Promo Plan offer for a limited time, making it possible to earn 60,000 Qantas points for just $396!

Optus previously ran a similar promotion from 7-17 July 2022. The offer is now back and available to new Optus customers who sign up for the Qantas $99 Promo Plan between 1-5 September 2022 and stay connected for at least 3 months after activating the service.

How this offer works

Until 5 September 2022, you could sign up for a “Qantas $99 Promo Plan” from Optus at a cost of $99 per month. This is a month-to-month “SIM only” plan with no lock-in contract. If you sign up by 5 September, activate the SIM card when it arrives and keep the service active for at least three months, you’ll receive 60,000 bonus Qantas points.

The $99/month Qantas Promo Plan from Optus includes 200GB of data and unlimited calls & texts within Australia each month. It does not include any international calls or texts, or global roaming and is not available as an eSIM.

This promotional offer is not available in Optus stores or on the regular Optus website. It’s only available via the dedicated Qantas/Optus website.

Earning 60,000 bonus Qantas points with this offer

Optus says that customers who take up this promotional offer will receive all 60,000 bonus Qantas points “as a one-time point allotment” at the end of the third month from the service activation date. The points could take up to 7 days to appear in your Qantas Frequent Flyer account.

You can cancel your $99 Qantas Promo Plan at any time by contacting Optus, but won’t receive the bonus Qantas points if you change or cancel before receiving the sign-up bonus. According to the Critical Information Summary, you also won’t receive a pro-rata refund of any charges paid in advance for the remainder of the payment cycle when you cancel.

In practice, this means you would most likely need to pay for at least 4 months of usage in order to qualify for the 60,000 Qantas points. Although you only theoretically need to keep your plan for 3 months, the points will be awarded up to 7 days after the end of the third month – by which time, you may have already been charged for the fourth month.

Either way, that’s still a maximum cost of $396 to earn 60,000 Qantas Frequent Flyer points if you cancel before the end of the fourth month! Of course, you’ll also receive a SIM card and use of Optus’ mobile network –  including a huge 200GB of data each month – for as long as your service remains active.

The Optus offer website also states:

These plans are available to Qantas Frequent Flyer members who are adding a new Optus mobile service. If you are an existing Optus mobile customer, you are eligible to take up a new SIM Only plan e.g., sign up an additional mobile service or upgrade from a pre-paid plan.
Customers signing up to the $99 Qantas Promo Plan during the offer period are limited to 1 per Qantas Frequent Flyer number and 1 per Optus account.

Qantas’ partnership with Optus

Qantas launched a new partnership with Optus in November 2021, offering bonus Qantas points on sign-up and ongoing Qantas points earn for every dollar spent on three specific types of plans costing $39, $59 and $79 per month. These three plans are always available and the offers don’t really change.

The $99 Qantas Promo Plan is a limited-time addition to this line-up. But it works a bit differently as the only Qantas points awarded are from the one-time sign-up bonus after three months. This promotional plan does not include the ability to earn any ongoing Qantas points beyond this.

A good deal?

Regardless of whether you think the $99 Optus mobile plan is competitive, it would be hard to argue that 60,000 Qantas points for $396 isn’t a good deal.

You could get a higher amount of bonus Qantas points at a lower out-of-pocket cost with a credit card sign-up bonus. But if you can’t or don’t want to get a credit card, this would have to be one of the best value alternative methods of earning a large chunk of Qantas points.

By comparison, if you were to buy 60,000 Qantas top-up points you’d be paying $1,647. A cheaper method of obtaining those points could be to take advantage of Qantas Wine offers, but you’d still need to buy considerably more than $396 worth of wine.

As an example of what you could do with 60,000 Qantas points, this would be enough for a one-way Qantas Business flight or return Economy flight from Sydney to Indonesia (plus taxes & carrier charges).

Join the discussion on the Australian Frequent Flyer forum: Optus $99/Mth Sim Only Plan – 60,000 Qf Pts

Matt Graham

The editor of Australian Frequent Flyer, Matt's passion for travel has taken him to over 90 countries… with the help of frequent flyer points, of course!
Matt's favourite destinations (so far) are Germany, Brazil & Kazakhstan. His interests include aviation, economics & foreign languages, and he has a soft spot for good food and red wine.

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