"Oz Fest #8" – Darwin Australia - Memorial Day Weekend, May 27-29, 2011
Jun 23, 2010, 4:30 am
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And my snafu ... heading of course should read
"Oz Fest #7" – DARWIN Australia - Memorial Day Weekend, May 27-29, 2011
And I am sure a hard working mod will oblige soon to amend it.
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Jun 23, 2010, 4:34 am
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Jun 23, 2010, 4:40 am
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Qantas sell them for ~AUD1500 each way (because they can).
There is still some limited award availability, but that's only available currently to BEAC and QFF members, AA and other oneworld can't access these until 330 days out.
Anyway, about Qantas "anyseat Awards/Rewards"
A year ago Qantas introduced "Any Seat" awards where program points ("Miles") could be used to book any available seat - normally the amount of miles/points required is massive compared to basic award booking classes.
It seems these were not popular, so to encourage use Qantas now give miles and status to those using these awards. Recently it has been noted that if there is award availability, these ASA's/ASR's can be not much different in cost to standard (classic) awards.
As to DRW? Currently, If you can garner ~72K Qantas Frequent Flyer points and AUD250 per PAX you can book business class from MEL via ADL/SYD/BNE - which we have done.
Last edited by serfty; Jun 23, 2010 at 6:01 am
Jun 23, 2010, 4:41 am
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I've also amended the font size in the opening post downwards on health and safety grounds. It was just a bit too glaring, and if we are as involved in this thread as in the last Do (which I echo chrissxb's statements on), I don't want to have to wear sunglasses just to access the thread
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Jun 23, 2010, 4:49 am
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Jun 23, 2010, 5:08 am
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kpc and +1 -----> platinum^
Addendum: Not as good as Serfty, but have taken his advice and booked our return in J from Drw to Syd via Adel on Tues 31st May for 72000 pts + $230 odd dollars [QF Any Seat award]. Should earn 140 SCs and around 5000 QF pts each. Didn't have enough pts to book the forward journey from Syd to Drw tho
...will have to wait for a Syd-Drw sale and pay cash...
Addendum: Not as good as Serfty, but have taken his advice and booked our return in J from Drw to Syd via Adel on Tues 31st May for 72000 pts + $230 odd dollars [QF Any Seat award]. Should earn 140 SCs and around 5000 QF pts each. Didn't have enough pts to book the forward journey from Syd to Drw tho
...will have to wait for a Syd-Drw sale and pay cash...
Last edited by kpc; Jun 23, 2010 at 7:20 am
Jun 23, 2010, 5:32 am
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The SIN DO began in 2003, and so is preparing for it's 9th annual reincarnation in January, 2011!!
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