Has it started already?
Sep 22, 2012 | 4:26 am
#1
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Has it started already?
Received an email from Emirates yesterday, with an 'exclusive' 5% discount off any fares from the UK to Dubai, the Far East, Australia etc.
I've never considered booking with Emirates, let alone signed up for their offers, so it seems strange that they have my email address.
Coincidence? Or have QF started sharing their customer database with their new partner?
I've never considered booking with Emirates, let alone signed up for their offers, so it seems strange that they have my email address.
Coincidence? Or have QF started sharing their customer database with their new partner?
Sep 22, 2012 | 5:38 am
#2
Join Date: Aug 2009
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Received an email from Emirates yesterday, with an 'exclusive' 5% discount off any fares from the UK to Dubai, the Far East, Australia etc.
I've never considered booking with Emirates, let alone signed up for their offers, so it seems strange that they have my email address.
Coincidence? Or have QF started sharing their customer database with their new partner?
I've never considered booking with Emirates, let alone signed up for their offers, so it seems strange that they have my email address.
Coincidence? Or have QF started sharing their customer database with their new partner?
Sep 22, 2012 | 6:35 am
#4
Join Date: Oct 2004
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I also would be interested to know (under relevant data protection laws etc) whether they can legally even hand over your emails to another company, and I would also question the commercial sense of them doing so - why would QF give its customers data to another company when they could just directly email you any such deals (that would emanate from the new partnership) themselves?
I would thus strongly suspect that EK got your email address some other way.
Sep 22, 2012 | 6:52 pm
#5
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Indicative Timetable from the ACCC 7 Sep 2012 Lodgement of applications and supporting submission. 10 Sep 2012 Public consultation process begins. 21 Sep 2012 Closing date for submissions on interim authorisation. 1 Oct 2012 Closing date for submissions from interested parties. Oct 2012 ACCC decision regarding interim authorisation. Oct 2012 Applicants respond to issues raised in the public consultation process. Dec 2012 Draft determination. Dec/Jan 2013 Public consultation on draft determination including any conference if called. Feb/Mar 2013 Final determination.
Sep 23, 2012 | 3:39 am
#7
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I am laughing now...reminds me some little brit wearing a bear and long-ish hair: You can not do that! But if I am doing that then it is OK.
Sep 23, 2012 | 9:52 am
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