50 status points needed
Aug 17, 2004, 8:56 am
#6
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Perth
Programs: QR Platinum
Posts: 547
Finding the cheapest routing
I suddenly became inspired to write a program that will search for the cheapest domestic mileage run given an origin and a desired number of status credits. Hopefully I'll have a working version tomorrow evening (Aug 18), then I'll post an answer to your question.
This program could be useful to many people around here...
This program could be useful to many people around here...
Aug 17, 2004, 3:27 pm
#7
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 516
The Black Art of combining Travel with Software
StevePER,
sounds like a great idea. I would be more than happy to be a "Beta" pilot.
The only thing I would like to see in the programme is the double sc's with every free upgrade button.
Cheers
Iain
sounds like a great idea. I would be more than happy to be a "Beta" pilot.
The only thing I would like to see in the programme is the double sc's with every free upgrade button.
Cheers
Iain
Aug 17, 2004, 6:05 pm
#8
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Perth
Programs: QR Platinum
Posts: 547
Originally Posted by IainF
StevePER,
sounds like a great idea. I would be more than happy to be a "Beta" pilot.
The only thing I would like to see in the programme is the double sc's with every free upgrade button.
sounds like a great idea. I would be more than happy to be a "Beta" pilot.
The only thing I would like to see in the programme is the double sc's with every free upgrade button.
Steve
Aug 17, 2004, 6:31 pm
#9
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Programs: QF QP NB, PC Plat. Amb, SPG Gold
Posts: 1,879
Sounds like it'll be a fantastic piece of software, a real timesaver for when those last SC's need to be scraped together. Look forward to seeing a beta version in action! (and with the new qualification year about to start for me it's always good to start filling up the balance nice and early ).
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Aug 18, 2004, 8:15 am
#10
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Perth
Programs: QR Platinum
Posts: 547
And the winner is...
From every red-e-deal listed on the Qantas website, my software tells me the cheapest 50 status credits from Perth is PER-ADL-MEL-PER, costing $486. In comparison, the cheapest 50 from Sydney is SYD-MEL-ADL-BNE-SYD, costing $399.
Steve
Steve
Aug 18, 2004, 9:03 am
#11
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Programs: QF QP NB, PC Plat. Amb, SPG Gold
Posts: 1,879
Looks pretty promising there so far! A question about the software, can it take into account multiple segment flights? For PER-ADL-MEL for instance it's cheaper to book it when it's booked as one ticket (so a search for PER-MEL will also return PER-ADL-MEL as a result) instead manually selecting both legs as two separate bookings (saves $10 or so in this instance).
Aug 18, 2004, 5:52 pm
#12
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Perth
Programs: QR Platinum
Posts: 547
Originally Posted by GibSpmuh
Looks pretty promising there so far! A question about the software, can it take into account multiple segment flights? For PER-ADL-MEL for instance it's cheaper to book it when it's booked as one ticket
Steve