[jakeseven7]

Originally Posted by serfty

Interestingly, if you spend ~$2200 on starclass fares; you'll get min 140SC's each way. Sort of like J creadits for premium WHY travel.

Hmmm I smell some potential JQ Starclass status runs..

[JohnK]

Originally Posted by serfty

Interestingly, if you spend ~$2200 on starclass fares; you'll get min 140SC's each way. Sort of like J creadits for premium WHY travel.

Good point! But it's still Jetstar.

In a place not too far from here for ~$2200 one can get 600 SC's in business class. Exactly halfway to re-qualifying platinum.

[serfty]

Originally Posted by JohnK

Good point! But it's still Jetstar.

In a place not too far from here for ~$2200 one can get 600 SC's in business class. Exactly halfway to re-qualifying platinum.

You can get from Syd to that place for 60K QFF points or $1500 on QF WHY. On JQ you can get there for about $1950 earning 320 SC's on the return.

ATM Starclass seems a reasonable SC return for the price. (IMO)

[JohnK]

Originally Posted by serfty

You can get from Syd to that place for 60K QFF points or $1500 on QF WHY. On JQ you can get there for about $1950 earning 320 SC's on the return.

ATM Starclass seems a reasonable SC return for the price. (IMO)

Actually getting to that place from SYD and buying the airfare from the other place costs ~$1400 for 210 SC's plus one short business class return flight from that place to the other place for a total cost of ~$1850 earning 330 SC's.

I do agree with you though that JQ Starclass is very good value, the numbers do not lie. The only problem is that you have to fly JQ! I will wait and see how you get on with your JQ Starclass flight to that place later on this year.

[NM]

Originally Posted by JohnK

I do agree with you though that JQ Starclass is very good value, the numbers do not lie. The only problem is that you have to fly JQ!

What is the problem with flying JQ if you are in Starclass? It seems to be quite a reasonable premium economy product - apart from the over-use of the colour orange .

[serfty]

Originally Posted by NM

... - apart from the over-use of the colour orange .

Nellie, that's Ochre!

[maninblack]

Check out the Jetstar website. The intnl schedule pdf has not been updated in weeks so HNL still isn't on it, (and perhaps other info) the photo gallery has not got a new image since 2004, the starclass page doesn't show a single picture of the product or the A330's, the route map doesn't show the intnl destinations and when you do a flight search and it comes up with no availability, it doesn't show the next available date, leaving you to keep trying day be day until a flight appears.

Budget airline, budget website. Who designs and maintains this garbage?

[NM]

Originally Posted by maninblack

Check out the Jetstar website. The intnl schedule pdf has not been updated in weeks so HNL still isn't on it, (and perhaps other info) the photo gallery has not got a new image since 2004, the starclass page doesn't show a single picture of the product or the A330's, the route map doesn't show the intnl destinations and when you do a flight search and it comes up with no availability, it doesn't show the next available date, leaving you to keep trying day be day until a flight appears.

Budget airline, budget website. Who designs and maintains this garbage?

I guess they have to keep the cost down somehow. Perhaps they are going to implement a user-pays approach to the web site. You can pay $2 to view a picture of Starclass, $1.50 for an up-to-date route map, and $3 to view the conditions of carriage. A package deal of all downloadable information will cost $4.95 (plus GST and internet bandwidth surcharge).

Perhaps I should not give them any ideas .

At least I can confirm that JQ's web site is not included in my Favourites folder .