Qantas today announced a new partnership between Qantas and Quandoo that will allow Qantas Frequent Flyer members to earn Qantas Points when dining at one of 18,000 restaurants within Australia and in 12 countries globally.
Who is Quandoo?
Quandoo is one of the largest online restaurant booking platforms in the world with listings ranging from independent restaurants, to much-loved chains and Michelin starred establishments.
Quandoo currently operates in 12 countries, which include:
- Austria
- Australia
- Finland
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Singapore
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
Details of the partnership
The new partnership between Qantas and Quandoo takes flight on 15 August 2019 and will see Qantas Frequent Flyer members who book restaurants through the Qantas portal on Qantas.com or the Qantas app earn points when they dine in one of 18,000 restaurants globally.
Olivia Wirth, CEO of Qantas Loyalty stated:
Food and wine constantly rank as some of the top interests for our members, so we have been looking carefully at how we can offer a rewarding experience that is easy-to-use. The ability to now earn points for booking restaurants overseas is a great addition to people’s travel experience and helps get them closer to their dream trip.
Carried over from the previous Qantas Restaurants program, members will earn 100 Qantas Points per person, per booking. Points will only be allocated based on confirmed diners, meaning that if you booked a table for 8, and only 5 people show up, you will be awarded 500 Qantas Points.
Members carrying a Qantas Point-earning credit card are able to double-dip by earning points on both the credit card spend and through the new dining partnership.
To put this opportunity into context, let’s say that you eat out 3 times a week with your partner or a group of friends, with an average table size of 4 people, meaning that you will earn 1,200 points per week. In a year, this equates to 62,400 Qantas Points, currently enough for a one-way Business seat between Sydney and Singapore (increasing to 68,400 points from 18 September 2019).
How to book
Currently, you must place your booking through the Qantas Restaurants portal at Qantas.com or through the Qantas app in order to earn Qantas Points.
However, later this year, Quandoo Vice President Asia Pacific Paul Hadida confirmed that you will be able to earn Qantas points when booking directly at quandoo.com.au.
Summary
The Qantas-Quandoo partnership is very welcome news for Qantas Frequent Flyer members and continues the recent push by Qantas to introduce new ways to earn Qantas Points through normal everyday activities.
The innovative touch to this partnership is that for the first time, members are able to earn Qantas points when dining overseas. Just make sure that in the interim at least, you book through the Qantas Restaurants portal or the Qantas app and not directly through quandoo.com.au.
We would love to hear your view on the new partnership by answering the poll below.
The selection in Brisbane in abysmal. I tried to book at 4 different venues and they had all pulled out of Quandoo.
BTW, I think the Qantas partnership with Deliveroo has now ended.
Thanks for sharing your experience regarding restaurant availability in both Sydney and Brisbane.
And yes, the Deliveroo-Qantas partnership has unfortunately ended on 31 December 2019.
I had a look at the Quandoo site and the selection of restaurants is pretty poor atm compared to the old Dimmi (now the Fork after being consumed by TripAdvisor behemoth) who have captured a decent percentage of the restaurant booking market.
In my home of Canberra, Quandoo have a grand total of 18 restaurants on offer for the whole city, 9 of those are Indian and another 7 Chinese. Not really much in the way of choice.
I also had a look at Sydney CDB and they have a few good restaurants but again, not overly impressed.
Doing a quick Google i found that Quandoo is a big company OS, so hopefully they will use the Qantas partnership to push harder into the AU market. Will have to wait and see.
I also think the whole online booking space still has a long way to go for dining bookings, esp in regards to having broad online aggregators in the game. Maybe the margins are too low…
I used to use Qantas Restaurants heaps when it was the Dimmi partnership and made a lot (lots and lots and lots) of points from it, and with Quandoo i will book when i can, but at first glance i really can’t get excited about it.