Qantas: Turn 30,000 Points into Wine + 20 Status Credits @ Qantas Wine

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  jv on 27/08/2021 - 11:17

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  Turn 30,000 Points into Wine

  Good deal for Jesus…

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  BangkokBreakfast on 27/08/2021 - 11:25

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  I guess they want people to spend all the points accumulated during the pandemic on goods rather than on flights whenever we finally reopen.

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  jaygee on 27/08/2021 - 12:06

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  This is not a good trade. Qantas is desperately trying to get people to use their points before travel resumes (likely next year for some International destinations). I'm at 700k and just plan to keep building until we get to use them internationally. For domestic, I just use Alaska points which I purchased over a year ago - it's a better value (if you buy under discounts).

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    OzYY on 27/08/2021 - 12:15

    Not many seat available for classic award flight anyway. Hate it when we tried hard to get the point.

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      jaygee on 27/08/2021 - 13:34

      +1

      I'm a gold member so they actually release more seats for higher status people (had no idea till my sister who has no status tried to book on the same flight), but I get your point.

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        nightelves on 27/08/2021 - 13:57

        How many points do Alaska charge per awards booking if you fly domestically?

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          jaygee on 27/08/2021 - 14:09

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          @nightelves: 20k for business anywhere in Australia. So Mel to Perth is 20k, vs 41k on Qantas. So technically you get 2 tickets for the price of 1.

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            nightelves on 27/08/2021 - 14:10

            @jaygee: Wow that is fantastic value and does Alaska allow free stopover? Think the real gem when International flights does open is 70k one-way in biz class to America with a free stopover

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              tunzafun001 on 01/09/2021 - 23:20

              @nightelves: It was hard / impossible to get availablity before (with two trips a year pleb status), but now it will super hard. Guess you need to book now, or even a few months ago and hope travel happens next year (give or take an Episolom or Delta 2 variant).

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            UrMumsOnlyFan on 27/08/2021 - 23:01

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            @jaygee: A 1:1 comparison of different points currencies is too simplistic. It depends on the cost of acquiring Alaska Mileage Plan miles compared to the cost of acquiring Qantas Points.

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              jaygee on 28/08/2021 - 03:27

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              @UrMumsOnlyFan: Sure agree, but if you have 0 points of each, then Alaska is easily better value. I find Qantas points harder to come by for their value, but like I said, I use both.

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    nephilim on 27/08/2021 - 12:52

    Qantas are claiming international flights will be back before Christmas only today in a press release.
    very unrealistic, maybe back to NZ.

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      jaygee on 27/08/2021 - 13:33

      That's why I said likely next year, December is super unrealistic (Fiji which is on their list is going through a big outbreak and def won't be 80% vaccinated by Dec).

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  mountains on 27/08/2021 - 12:37

  May I ask anyone, I am not sure, how much 75K Qantas Points worth, say flight booking value?

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    beatthatflight on 27/08/2021 - 12:50

    +1

    Really depends how you use it, eg 16000 + $36 can get you business from SYD to MEL, but 56?k can get you first class with Emirates from SYD to CHC (when flights are happening, of course)

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      mountains on 27/08/2021 - 12:52

      Well, that does help!! Thanks

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  siwi666 on 27/08/2021 - 13:52

  seems like a good deal to me given points are currently usless for flying

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  dtox on 16/09/2021 - 08:28

  My 20SC dropped yesterday