How many passengers are gold/platinum?

[spiggy_topes]

Idle curiosity after signing two thirsty colleagues into the Melbourne QP on Friday evening - what proportion of passengers (not just readers of this forum) are plat/gold/silver etc? Being WP is pretty handy in terms of getting into lounges worldwide, standby lists, free beer etc, but it can't be cost effective to make it too widely available...

For what it's worth I snuck a look at the passenger manifest a few months ago when coming back from LA in F. 11 of the 12 passengers were plat, but that's probably not a representative sample.

 

[simongr]

General reports are that there are 60,000 Plats.

 

[oz_mark]

I don't think there is a flight that would be representative. On the Syd-Mel morning and evening flights, for example the 767's are probably filled to the gills with plats. Other flights may have a lower number of plats.

 

[JohnK]

From some of the reports I have heard out of the 5,000,000+ QFF members there are around 60,000 Platinums and 450,000 Golds.

Just a guess but an overwhelming majority would be Bronze. Signed up to the QFF program and only take one flight every couple of years but keep membership active to flush through those credit card points.

 

[drron]

Or us terrible people crediting all our flying points to AA and keeping our bronze status to churn through our CC points.

 

[tuapekastar]

This thread from late 2005 confidently reported 4.5 million QFF members, 500,000 of whom had 'status', and 60,000 of those to be Platinum.

Allowing that those figures were correct at the time, then I guess it's speculation as to any further breakdown of those numbers (which most likely have increased in the last couple of years).

 

[Shano]

Would be interesting to know if the now enforced QF 4 segment rule has had much of an impact on the number of members with status. I guess we will never know....