? improvements coming to QFF
#226
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Newcastle, Australia.
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I think QF have been planning for this day for some time.
From what I have read here and my own experience in having to cancel and lose points when a return flight could not be found I believe there has been a gradual reduction in available award seats over the past year or so on QF metal.
So now they can claim that Classic Awards will not change because they have already degenerated it to a very limited selection.
From what I have read here and my own experience in having to cancel and lose points when a return flight could not be found I believe there has been a gradual reduction in available award seats over the past year or so on QF metal.
So now they can claim that Classic Awards will not change because they have already degenerated it to a very limited selection.
Did you consider that the competition for classic awards, particularly with the wide availability of online tools to exploit them, has gone up in the past year or two?
#227
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Melbourne
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I think QF have been planning for this day for some time.
From what I have read here and my own experience in having to cancel and lose points when a return flight could not be found I believe there has been a gradual reduction in available award seats over the past year or so on QF metal.
So now they can claim that Classic Awards will not change because they have already degenerated it to a very limited selection.
From what I have read here and my own experience in having to cancel and lose points when a return flight could not be found I believe there has been a gradual reduction in available award seats over the past year or so on QF metal.
So now they can claim that Classic Awards will not change because they have already degenerated it to a very limited selection.
#228
Join Date: Jan 2006
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#229
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#230
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Perth, WA, Australia
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I'm glad to advise that a senior QF FF employee has given me a written, formal guarantee that with the introduction of Any Seat they have left the old system as it was, and that an identical amount/proportion of seats will be available - and will for the "foreseeable future", in number and as a proportion of total seats - in 'Classic' as in the pre-July 1 system.
This should thus mean that the ability to book award seats as per the old system is unchanged, and so at least Golds and Platinums should thus have limited need to actually have to pay the ridiculous redemption levels in Any Seat.
A little bit of silver lining to the post-July 1 dark cloud (if only a little).
This should thus mean that the ability to book award seats as per the old system is unchanged, and so at least Golds and Platinums should thus have limited need to actually have to pay the ridiculous redemption levels in Any Seat.
A little bit of silver lining to the post-July 1 dark cloud (if only a little).
#231
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big changes to Jetstar rewards??
Was just having a quick look for some tickets for my folks and noticed that the 20% discount for booking starclass rewards seems to be no longer!
I did a few things:
Classic Award Cairns-Nagoya: now a JQ route but only comes up only with QF flight designator on JQ service - 60,000 points required for star class.
Classic Award search MEL-BKK: a JQ route which used to produce a search reult for the JQ service. Now it only produces qf metal services via SYD
searched anytime reward for jetstar MEL-BKK and comes up with quote for 126,000 points in star class. one way. compared to 48,000 previously.
Also when you look for JQ rewards on the anytime function there is no ability to select 'flexible with dates' - if a search comes back negative you have to plug in day after day to see whats there - and each time the engine resets itself so you have to pull the origin and destination and dates afresh.
Not very friendly to JQ wannabe users.
Have I done something wrong and am making this too difficult?
I know the 20% discount for starclass over business was a 'promotion' but they should now reprice in line with premuim economy rewards if they're going to make this change.
Regards
lme ff
I did a few things:
Classic Award Cairns-Nagoya: now a JQ route but only comes up only with QF flight designator on JQ service - 60,000 points required for star class.
Classic Award search MEL-BKK: a JQ route which used to produce a search reult for the JQ service. Now it only produces qf metal services via SYD
searched anytime reward for jetstar MEL-BKK and comes up with quote for 126,000 points in star class. one way. compared to 48,000 previously.
Also when you look for JQ rewards on the anytime function there is no ability to select 'flexible with dates' - if a search comes back negative you have to plug in day after day to see whats there - and each time the engine resets itself so you have to pull the origin and destination and dates afresh.
Not very friendly to JQ wannabe users.
Have I done something wrong and am making this too difficult?
I know the 20% discount for starclass over business was a 'promotion' but they should now reprice in line with premuim economy rewards if they're going to make this change.
Regards
lme ff
#232
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Not very friendly to JQ wannabe users.
Have I done something wrong and am making this too difficult?
I know the 20% discount for starclass over business was a 'promotion' but they should now reprice in line with premuim economy rewards if they're going to make this change.
Have I done something wrong and am making this too difficult?
I know the 20% discount for starclass over business was a 'promotion' but they should now reprice in line with premuim economy rewards if they're going to make this change.
#233
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#234
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I just looked for a flight SYD-LDH-SYD. Cheapest anyseat award came up at more than 100k points. I think this should be the most expensive award per mile. Unless someone can come up with something even "better".