shuuy

This is what happened for me (ie changed flights but still got bonus).

The thing that I got caught on is it has to be QF flights on QF metal. So QF1 gets double-status, but the QF8413 etc don't.
Oh, and last year I crossed 5,000 SC but didn't get the bonus because some of my total was from last year's promo...

chrisjpl

It's got the potential to give some pretty strange outcomes; eg, I've been able to make quite a lot of bookings in the Double SC promotion, and I'm probably going to hit the 3600 to retain PlatinumOne but NOT hit the 2400 for the Platinum Bonus Award.

mikalee

I rely think the concept of having sub classes of SCs makes things far too confusing and for little benefit of QF and a high annoyance of members.

If I have my head around this correctly, Loyalty Bonus and the Platinum Bonus are gained from SCs earned from flying where as status qualification uses the SCs from flying, from the loyalty bonus, the double SC promo and other third party promos.

This departs from my understanding of the of the original concept of SCs which was to reward members for flying and flying on more expensive tickets rather than provide benefits for simply earning points which it is easy to do when you are not on a plane.

Is there a purpose for making this sub class of SCs rather than revert to giving away pints rather than SCs?

Globaliser

Isn't it to make QFFF Simpler and Fairer?

fakecd

fair? depends. program is open to a lot of arbitage opportunities when these promotion etc comes. it is easy to qualify for QP with a complex itineries a lot cheaper than regular joe running for silver on syd mel shuttles...

windandc

I signed up for this double status credits program and is currently Qantas FF Platinum. Owing to the cycle of company cost reduction, my flights this cycle (17/18) is much lower than usual and light on Status Credits; I have a multi hop flight coming up (Business) and mostly QF that was booked during the qualifying period.

PERTH-SYDNEY-DALLAS-HOUSTON (Bush)
I then have HOUSTON - SANTIAGO
then SANTIAGO SYDNEY PERTH

However, I am now likely to change my last leg (Santiago - Perth) to be Santiago, Las Vegas, Last Vegas -Perth because of another work commitment

Should I do the change now, or after I started the flight segments (the price is roughly the same and plenty of availability)
I am nervous they may re-issue most of the ticket which means I lose the original eligibility.

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serfty

Welcome to FT

I would suggest that as long as the PNR (booking reference) does not change you should be ok. Note that only QF flight numbers on QF metal qualify for this promotion, so the HOU flights will not count.

mikalee

How long does it take for the bonus SCs to post on the account from past experience. I have taken three flights with this promo; Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday just gone. The flights of course post within about half a day but no sign of the bonus SCs and they will push me up into WP.

Whats peoples previous experience with this

fakecd

for last year points posted about the same time as.flight.credit if not few days later

og

+1. Last years promo double SCs took between 1 and 4 days to appear.

serfty

My 2017 'booked' DSC flights flown over the last 4 weeks all had the bonus credit three days after the normal ones posted.

Jacek_C

Has any of you had any luck with the current promo and got their points posted already? The frequent flyer team seams to be pretty convinced that it will take 6 -8 weeks. I consider that a bit outrageous, the status credits should have been posted automatically

chrisjpl

I've not had any post yet, but last time it took at least a couple of weeks after the launch of the promo before any of my bonus points posted - but then all the flights that I'd taken in that couple of weeks came through in a very short period of time. And from that point onwards, like previous posters have said, the bonus amount credited within a couple of days of the primary amount.

mikalee

Jacek_C

My status credits have just been posted.