How long does it take to receive Gold package?

[samh004]

And secondly, preferential access to classic award seats? who are they kidding? they have now made the same benefit available to silver members, and without sounding elitist, are bronze members really "frequent" flyers? I would think they are merely "members", given that they fly so infrequently so as to be unable to get off the bottom rung.
thoughts?

That’s new, in the past only Platinum had the ability to request seats become available, now Gold and Silver do too, but at much lower quantities, so you still have a benefit above Silver and definitely below Platinum.

 

[serfty]

They have really cheapened the packaging from the original mail-out.

Or was the original NGCI packaging just for those who were being 'upgraded' to the new Q Bag Tags and RFID FF cards?

I do recall seeing SG and have a WP pack (with the band around them that fold out horizontally with a Q tag on each side). They were actually quite nice (still have mine)!

Here's some images taken by pshepvic: (http://www.australianfrequentflyer....ew-next-gen-card-bag-26196-17.html#post433636)

My NGCI kit arrived last Thursday but I didn't get to the mail to check until today. It's left me quite disappointed in Qantas, and this might sound trivial, but the standard of packaging is pretty appalling.

My partner & I qualified a few weeks apart ... and here is the difference in the packages received. (Apologies for the poor quality photos)

The NGCI Kit my partner received only a month ago:

The NGCI kit I just received:

I'm not impressed, particularly as this is the first time I've qualified for WP and to have it sent out like this, with sticky-tape holding the back together because the envelope was too small for the contents, is pretty pathetic.

Yes I know the card & tags are still the same and in the end it makes no difference, but it's still disappointing. If they'd sent my Gold package out "early in 2011" like originally promised, I might have got the nicer kit with that, but seeing they were so slow I didn't even receive that at all.