Qantas Sales - Any site having historical data?

jlim87 on 11/06/2018 - 17:35

I've been to Japan three years in a row now in December and each time I got my ticket on special at about the $800 mark sometime in October. Just based off that, and looking how they do certain things like double status credit sales at the same time of the year, I was wondering if anyone knows a site that stores historical data of their sales?

E.g. most tickets to Europe for this Summer (June-August) are extremely expensive now but it'll be good to know if they've done last minute sales while in Summer itself last year to sell off unsold seats.

Planning to do a few trips this year but never know what's a good time to buy.

Travel

Comments

  • robbo135 on 11/06/2018 - 18:18
    +6

    You're on that site mate - Type "Qantas" in the search bar on the top right corner of your screen…

    • jlim87 on 11/06/2018 - 19:22
      -2

      I'd prefer using tools like Hopper which someone mentioned below (which was the answer to my question), instead of doing it your method, which is to search "Qantas" in the search bar, and spend 30 minutes looking through multiple threads that have different destinations, dates etc to work out an answer a tool can give me in 5 seconds.

    • wantitforless on 12/06/2018 - 09:48

      history means nothing. It all depends on how their forward sales are going, which can be influenced by other airlines price reduction sales or world events. Eg. no one wanted to fly anywhere near Korea a few months ago when looked like USA was going to bomb the hell out of N Korea, so Korean & Asiana airlines were dumping seats & parking aircraft, which put downward pressure on all fares, not just where they flew to. SOme people would go, hey let's go to Europe it's so cheap, instead of staying at home or going somewhere Qantas might fly to.

      TOdays meeting in SIN might push airfares up again. DOn't think many airlines making money right now, with oil price rising.

    • wantitforless on 12/06/2018 - 09:49

      why not fly better airlines? Nothing special at all about Qantas. Flight attendants average age is more than my grandmother.

      & the Qantas ff program is a rip off with their fuel surcharges, that Virgin for instance, a much better airline, don't charge.

  • ronnknee on 11/06/2018 - 18:46
    -1

    If only there was a website where people can post sales and then the sales can be filtered by the company … Oh hang on.

    • Cheap Charlie on 11/06/2018 - 18:58

      You are on to some thing.
      If only we had the technology

    • jlim87 on 11/06/2018 - 19:26

      Ozbargain does have that data but common sense would indicate it'll take you some time to go through threads of various flights to different destinations and different timeframes to get the result I was asking for. A single app like Hopper that someone suggested below (which was the answer I was looking for), could do it in 5 seconds. Having historical data is one thing, but having tools to give you intelligent info from this data that has been mined is something else.

      I guess I have to elaborate more in my future posts cause some people here like yourself lack common sense and rush to post smart ass replies.

      • Banana on 11/06/2018 - 22:21
        +3

        Mate, you have taken the time to write a post, could use that time to sieve through those posts instead or google the answer yourself.

        Just elaborate more next time or put a disclaimer like 'I don't mean Ozbargain but bla bla bla…'.

        Those people merely stated facts, did they call you a dumb dumb? No. Did you jump to conclusion to call them 'lack common sense' and '…and smart ass..'? Yes. Don't need to be mean when people can't sit there and pick your brain to understand what you want.

  • enigma48 on 11/06/2018 - 19:07
    +4

    The mobile app 'Hopper' is really good - you'll get a breakdown of "this is an ok price, but prices will rise and fall for xxx months", then "prices mostly rise" closer to the date, then the date when prices only go up (usually a couple weeks before). It also lets you set daily alerts/watches so you'll get "this is a great price, we haven't seen a price this good in 2 months" warnings.

    • jlim87 on 11/06/2018 - 19:20
      -1

      Checked it out and it's awesome. Pretty much what I was referring to. With so many flight comparison sites, there's tons of historical data that gets mined and can provide good analytics, which in turn gives us tools like this. Thanks!

  • theHMASfriendship on 11/06/2018 - 21:41

    Try www.ozbargain.com.au

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