Originally Posted by
AnonymousCoward
...Edit: to clarify, I've tried to use this benefit when tickets are not available for purchase - i.e. it's already full. In some cases, QF has let me purchase. In other cases it's been declined. Obviously there is some threshhold beyond which even WP can't buy a full Y ticket.
I'm astonished that QF has diluted this WP benefit so much -- but sure enough, the benefit now reads "facility may be restricted due to operational constraints" ... so it is no benefit at all now! Basically WP can buy a ticket, whenever anyone else can buy a ticket -- but not when flights are oversold. Contrast that with LH and even CX, which do have a real guaranteed seat benefit. I missed the wording change on this benefit, which has effectively eliminated it. Somehow this fits in so well with the Joyce era of Qantas. Promise everything and deliver nothing. Maybe that can be the QF slogan for next year?