Oversold QF flights
Mar 21, 2012, 12:26 am
#16
Join Date: May 2008
Location: SIN / SYD
Programs: QF WP/LTG
Posts: 499
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?
There's still a benefit, but I just don't know when you can use it. When attempting to book QF6 (this is usually the one that I have the most trouble with), sometimes you can get on, and sometimes you can't. So, it becomes a benefit that works sometimes, but can't be relied on. So, a bit useless. Flights out of CBR are probably less of an issue - there are other flights that people can be put onto if required. Flights out of international destinations are probably harder to exercise this benefit on.
Mar 21, 2012, 12:29 am
#17
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 44,620
My understanding is that unless the booking class is closed, then it is permitted. If the load is so high that even Y waitlist is closed, then the benefit will not be granted.
This isn't, afaik, a recent restriction and has been around for a long while
This isn't, afaik, a recent restriction and has been around for a long while