silverfingers
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- Aug 30, 2012
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Hello AFF,
I am new to the site and new to the Qantas Frequent Flyer Program, I have already started a thread because I was confused about something on my statement (the reason I joined) but after looking around and reading a few threads I have found it extremely fascinating.
My current status with Qantas is 'Gold' recently acquired however.
I am not sure if that is good enough to be a huge contributor to this site, but I am here to learn the ins and outs of how to get the most from the program.
I have only just begun in the last 12 months to fly regular enough in or from Australia to warrant the Qantas program.
I am a member of other programs aswell, but I am pretty well schooled on them because I have been doing this for a while.
So I guess I should tell you a bit about who I am (with in reason)
In or from AUS I have around 8 - 10 flights per month at the moment, and around Asia and the South pacific a further 8 - 10 per month, most of them are short flights 2 - 5 hours, so no long haul for me, and I often get stuck with the coughpy planes aswell, In the last 12 months that I have been flying with Qantas I have found them to be a very abrupt ignorant airline and by comparison to others not nearly as customer focused as others, maybe you have to be of a certain class/status to get any sort of service.
Not sure, but my money is as good as the Platinum flyer sitting next to me.
In my opinion it's a stuffy archaic form of operation more a skin to a company that moves cattle around than an airline.
Not that this really concerns me too much, I have far more important things to worry about than whether the airlines are running around after me, I am quite capable of checking myself in and carrying my own bags, attaching my own stickers, and happy to wait in line at security, no one expects their local grocery store to treat them like a king and run around after them just because they shop there every week.
Not to mention I would much prefer to eat a cheeseburger from a chain outlet in the food court than the cold meats and cheese that are at room temperature, cold coffee, warm beer, and salads that FAR too many people of questionable hygiene have breathed on in the Qantas Club Lounge.
Given what I have spent my life doing as a career, I know full well that when you are preparing a service for someone who is getting it for nothing or very little, very little effort or concern goes into it.
So I am definetly NOT a status junkie who takes pride in making innocent hard working staff on the front line feel belittled, we all know there are plenty of those people around.
I am at the Senior Management level with the largest company of our kind.
At the moment I travel Frequent short distances, but this changes from year to year, in previous years I have been required to travel throughout the Middle east, Europe and the Africa's.
So I have been around a bit.
I like to keep to myself generally, and thoroughly enjoy sitting quietly on a corner somewhere with good coffee and 'people watching', but here is the biggest thing that most people get really upset about...
I am one of those 'disgusting' 'repulsive' people who has tattoo's, which I have learned from reading a few of the threads on this site is very much frowned upon to a point where it almost crosses from 'ones opinion' to segregation and abuse.
Just because you personally in your own opinion don't like someone who is a different gender or a different skin color it doesn't make it any less sexist or racist.
So if you happen to see a bloke in a Qantas lounge or anywhere in an airport for that matter, that is Bald and has a crisp clean beautifully crafted tattoos of the tree of life on the back of his head, its probably me, so come up and say Hi.
Just because one has tattoo's it does not mean that they are vulgar people, mine are an ancient cultural right of passage, and I wear it with pride because it represents the fact that we are not slaves and we are free from persecution and it should stay that way.
I am educated, I have a family, I have children which I dote upon, I am a dignified and successful business man and have been for some time, I just also happen to have tattoos, this shouldn't mean that I am less welcome in any room than your bog standard buttoned collar middle management, or the egotistical, image tragic people who long to be accepted. Because lets face it, these are the only people who actually care about what a person looks like, because I certainly don't judge a book by its cover and neither do the other members of my social circles.
I do very much look forward to my membership here, it seems quite an informative and helpful website.
In fact it has been extremely helpful already which I must pass on my sincere thanks for.
I am new to the site and new to the Qantas Frequent Flyer Program, I have already started a thread because I was confused about something on my statement (the reason I joined) but after looking around and reading a few threads I have found it extremely fascinating.
My current status with Qantas is 'Gold' recently acquired however.
I am not sure if that is good enough to be a huge contributor to this site, but I am here to learn the ins and outs of how to get the most from the program.
I have only just begun in the last 12 months to fly regular enough in or from Australia to warrant the Qantas program.
I am a member of other programs aswell, but I am pretty well schooled on them because I have been doing this for a while.
So I guess I should tell you a bit about who I am (with in reason)
In or from AUS I have around 8 - 10 flights per month at the moment, and around Asia and the South pacific a further 8 - 10 per month, most of them are short flights 2 - 5 hours, so no long haul for me, and I often get stuck with the coughpy planes aswell, In the last 12 months that I have been flying with Qantas I have found them to be a very abrupt ignorant airline and by comparison to others not nearly as customer focused as others, maybe you have to be of a certain class/status to get any sort of service.
Not sure, but my money is as good as the Platinum flyer sitting next to me.
In my opinion it's a stuffy archaic form of operation more a skin to a company that moves cattle around than an airline.
Not that this really concerns me too much, I have far more important things to worry about than whether the airlines are running around after me, I am quite capable of checking myself in and carrying my own bags, attaching my own stickers, and happy to wait in line at security, no one expects their local grocery store to treat them like a king and run around after them just because they shop there every week.
Not to mention I would much prefer to eat a cheeseburger from a chain outlet in the food court than the cold meats and cheese that are at room temperature, cold coffee, warm beer, and salads that FAR too many people of questionable hygiene have breathed on in the Qantas Club Lounge.
Given what I have spent my life doing as a career, I know full well that when you are preparing a service for someone who is getting it for nothing or very little, very little effort or concern goes into it.
So I am definetly NOT a status junkie who takes pride in making innocent hard working staff on the front line feel belittled, we all know there are plenty of those people around.
I am at the Senior Management level with the largest company of our kind.
At the moment I travel Frequent short distances, but this changes from year to year, in previous years I have been required to travel throughout the Middle east, Europe and the Africa's.
So I have been around a bit.
I like to keep to myself generally, and thoroughly enjoy sitting quietly on a corner somewhere with good coffee and 'people watching', but here is the biggest thing that most people get really upset about...
I am one of those 'disgusting' 'repulsive' people who has tattoo's, which I have learned from reading a few of the threads on this site is very much frowned upon to a point where it almost crosses from 'ones opinion' to segregation and abuse.
Just because you personally in your own opinion don't like someone who is a different gender or a different skin color it doesn't make it any less sexist or racist.
So if you happen to see a bloke in a Qantas lounge or anywhere in an airport for that matter, that is Bald and has a crisp clean beautifully crafted tattoos of the tree of life on the back of his head, its probably me, so come up and say Hi.
Just because one has tattoo's it does not mean that they are vulgar people, mine are an ancient cultural right of passage, and I wear it with pride because it represents the fact that we are not slaves and we are free from persecution and it should stay that way.
I am educated, I have a family, I have children which I dote upon, I am a dignified and successful business man and have been for some time, I just also happen to have tattoos, this shouldn't mean that I am less welcome in any room than your bog standard buttoned collar middle management, or the egotistical, image tragic people who long to be accepted. Because lets face it, these are the only people who actually care about what a person looks like, because I certainly don't judge a book by its cover and neither do the other members of my social circles.
I do very much look forward to my membership here, it seems quite an informative and helpful website.
In fact it has been extremely helpful already which I must pass on my sincere thanks for.
