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So, I decided to change my booking for my flight tomorrow. The flight I want, is $300 a person. I paid about $140 a person for the flight we have already. The cost with change fees is $260. There's fees for doing the booking on the phone, but the website doesn't allow me to make a change.
I am expecting them to call me next week, as I am flying to the US. They call every time to say 'we've had some cancellations, would you like to upgrade to business.' There was a time when they upgraded me as a reward for being Gold, now they call me and try to talk me into spending my points. I used to routinely get the over wing seat, now they sell that for $160 each way. QANTAS has gone to the dogs IMO. I think Virgin should offer to give me instant gold status if I start flying with them, on the basis of my Gold status with QANTAS. If I could use their lounges when I travel, that would be enough for me to switch.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: as I am flying to the US.
Oh no! Now everything over here is going to start sucking even worse!  
(Not the fact that you are coming. Just things in general due to the Graus effect.)
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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Christian Graus wrote: I think Virgin should offer to give me instant gold status if I start flying with them, on the basis of my Gold status with QANTAS.
You think Virgin should reward you for the fact that you've given your business to a competitor of theirs in the past?
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I think that while the benefits have dropped, I still get access to QANTAS lounges and that stops me from changing. Virgin has a new service to LA, and if they want to build it, their best bet is to attract people who fly often. Having proven that I am one of those people, I should be desirable to them as a client, and if all I want is a lemonade and a shower in their lounge, it would cost them next to nothing to not make me wait a year to get that ( which I would not do, if I have to wait a year to have a shower at the airport again, I'd rather suffer QANTAS )
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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That makes an awful lot of sense... don't go bringing logic and good business practices into this!!
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Sounds good to me.
I recently renewed my car insurance and that fact I have never claimed from my previous insurer induced my new insurer to give me a nice big discount.
What is the plane flights version of a no claims bonus?
Lets lobby for transferable frequent flyer discounts.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
www.JacksonSoft.co.uk
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. wrote: I recently renewed my car insurance and that fact I have never claimed from my previous insurer induced my new insurer to give me a nice big discount.
Because the no claims history indicates the risk level you pose to them, and the cost of your premium is based on the assessed risk level.
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So I want to have a frequent flyer discount from another airline because it is more likely that I will fly with them again. Someone who only flies once or twice does not need the encouragement to change their usual airline.
I fly to Italy frequently and a discounted fare from another airline would induce me to fly with them in preference in the future. I have friends who have flown to Italy once and so today's price won't affect a future choice as there is no future choice.
It's al about repeat buisness vs one off. Insurance is always repeat buisness because you have to have it. The average annual cost to the insurer is the same if I crash or not because they insure good and bad drivers. I personally may be a low risk, but if I never crash I am still paying for the claims of others. I know they claim it is about risk, but assesed risk level is just another way of keeping your custom.
A more fair system of insurance would say that once your premiums paid have covered any possible claim you pay no more. Unfortunately, because I could drive into a top of the range sports car that puts the maximum possible claim into the impossible to pay range.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
www.JacksonSoft.co.uk
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Electron Shepherd wrote: Christian Graus wrote:I think Virgin should offer to give me instant gold status if I start flying with them, on the basis of my Gold status with QANTAS.
You think Virgin should reward you for the fact that you've given your business to a competitor of theirs in the past?
Sure. What better way to gain a frequent flyer as a new, happy customer?
If their marketing people were on the ball, they'd have offered it immediately.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The purpose behind frequent flyer points is to retain customers (they are known as 'loyalty points' in other industries). You keep flying with an airline because you get benefits that are only available if you keep flying with that airline.
If every airline allowed the transfer of points, they become (if you'll pardon the pun) pointless.
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I think Microsoft should grant me "must be fixed ASAP" status on MS connect, when I start using VS2010, on the basis of my extensive experience with VC6. If they'd give it to me one month early, that would be enough for me to switch.
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server
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That's the most broken analogy I've ever seen.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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In fairness, it was still pretty funny!!
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Well, that's true.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Yeah, a comparison between Visual Studio and another IDE might have been better. In fact, I'm pretty sure you qualify for the upgrade pricing for Visual Studio if you upgrade from Eclipse (I think that was the IDE... I might be incorrect though). Though that would just prove your point and we couldn't have that now could we.
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.
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*grin* that would be terrible.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Hey - I tried! 
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server
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I saw the title of this thread and thought "No.... it couldn't be...." 
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I did almost the same thing... Saw the thread title and without even looking I knew who it was. 
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That's why I didn't post QANTAS sucks.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: I think Virgin should offer to give me instant gold status if I start flying with them, on the basis of my Gold status with QANTAS
Write Virgin a letter asking them to do this. I jumped from American to Delta and Delta gave me an instant gold medalion membership after I wrote them. This was quite some time ago, the business climate is a bit different now, but it is worth giving it a shot.
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Yeah, I wrote to virgin this morning.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I would copy the VP of Marketing at Qantas with your letter to Virgin. In this economy brand loyalty is fierce.
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I used a form on their site. When they call to ask me to upgrade to business using points ( yes, they always do ), I am hoping to have a response from Virgin to tell them about.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Plus it's a fun letter to write.
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