Article: Qatar Airways Privilege Club Status Guide

[AFF Editor]

Guide to Qatar Airways Privilege Club Status is an article written by the AFF editorial team:

Guide to Qatar Airways Privilege Club Status

Often overlooked by Australian frequent flyers, the Qatar Airways Privilege Club program has been brought back into the spotlight.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

You can leave a comment or discuss this topic below.

 

[johnmpenney]

Qatar no longer provide personalised luggage tags to Privilege Club Gold members. They told me this stopped during Covid which doesn’t make much sense to me. You can get quite nice plastic business class tags - two layer with a swivel - on request at checkin and can write your details on these

 

[Thibault]

The article says : 'You do not earn Qpoints on any Virgin Australia flights. This even applies to codeshare flights marketed by Qatar Airways, which also earn no Qpoints. You will still earn Qatar Avios though if crediting a Virgin Australia flight to Privilege Club.'.

However, Qatar's website seems to contradict with the above :

'You can also earn Qpoints on flights marketed by Qatar Airways and operated by Virgin Australia.
Qpoints earned on these flights will count towards your Privilege Club membership tier.'

 

[AFF Editor]

The article says : 'You do not earn Qpoints on any Virgin Australia flights. This even applies to codeshare flights marketed by Qatar Airways, which also earn no Qpoints. You will still earn Qatar Avios though if crediting a Virgin Australia flight to Privilege Club.'.

However, Qatar's website seems to contradict with the above :

'You can also earn Qpoints on flights marketed by Qatar Airways and operated by Virgin Australia.
Qpoints earned on these flights will count towards your Privilege Club membership tier.'

Thanks, that's a good pick-up. We've updated the article.

We did check this when preparing the article and missed that note at the bottom of the "Earning Avios" tab on the VA partner page.

The reason we thought Qpoints would not be earned is because the Privilege Club program T&Cs are quite specific about which types of flights earn Avios, and which earn Qpoints. Flights marketed by Qatar Airways but operated by non-Oneworld airlines are not listed as eligible for earning Qpoints, according to the T&Cs. But the VA partner page should have the most accurate information.

If anyone has earned Qpoints on a VA-operated flight, please let us know.