Frequent flyers whose kids have hit gold status

[marki]

Meet the frequent flyer whose kids have hit gold status

Courtney Fitzsimmons doesn’t buy her kids bubble tea and birthday presents. She thinks travel is a much better investment in their future.

www.afr.com

I am not sure this is possible thoughts?

 

[Franky]

It’s blocked for me….

 

[Scarlett]

Can’t read the article but fully concur with the premise. Experiences, not stuff!
Last year Mstr Scarlett was:
QF Gold
VA Plat
TK Classic Plus

 

[SJF211]

Don’t have kids but I was 16 when I first got QF status. Although I was and still am obsessed with flying so solo trips were my birthday and Christmas presents on top of family holidays. Youngest I knew of was around 10 for QF silver or gold, can’t remember which as we were still in primary school or VA plat at 12. He had his WP tag on his backpack and I remember being so jealous . Think I might have been the only one who knew what it was. Whilst I think it’s definitely rare it certainly does happen.

 

[opusman]

You can get gold easily enough from a single holiday to Europe in J, I'm sure there'd be lots of kids who picked up gold at the same time as their parents that way.

 

[sudoer]

I once queued up to enter SYD Dom J behind a boy and his Dad. As I reached the front of the queue, and the pair had just entered, the lounge agent turned to her colleague and said "Can you believe he's Platinum at 13?!"

Turns out he was flying solo but had guested his Dad into the lounge. (guess he can't do that anymore with the guesting policy changes!)

So they are out there - Gold isn't too difficult if the kid is flying paid J...

 

[jamesatfish]

My eldest first made SG at 2, as soon she was no longer a lap infant and we had to pay for her seats (even if she actually sat with one of us for most of the flights).

As mentioned it really only takes a few long haul flights in a premium cabin to hit the 600 SC mark and at the time we had family living in Europe we visited fairly often.

 

[BenP]

It’s blocked for me….

If you want to read the article I suggest getting a giant ladder to get over the paywall roughly 12 foot

You can order them from 12ft.io

 

[Gremlin]

My two had KF Elite Gold and VA Gold by ages 6 and 4 respectively.

 

[Gremlin]

I once queued up to enter SYD Dom J behind a boy and his Dad. As I reached the front of the queue, and the pair had just entered, the lounge agent turned to her colleague and said "Can you believe he's Platinum at 13?!"

Turns out he was flying solo but had guested his Dad into the lounge. (guess he can't do that anymore with the guesting policy changes!)

So they are out there - Gold isn't too difficult if the kid is flying paid J...

He probably needed to have guested his Dad in. My kids sometimes had issues accessing lounges whilst flying solo as juniors, since the lounge is a licensed venue and their licensing laws don't allow for unaccompanied minors in the licensed area.

 

[marki]

He probably needed to have guested his Dad in. My kids sometimes had issues accessing lounges whilst flying solo as juniors, since the lounge is a licensed venue and their licensing laws don't allow for unaccompanied minors in the licensed area.

Unique

 

[Quickstatus]

MissQS was VA WP for a while partly due to family pooling while she was travelling with the National ski team.

 

[blackcat20]

Not mine (yet), they fly J and F on points instead.

 

[SuePa]

Does someone want to adopt me, please?