Life Time Gold - The [Realistic] Holy Grail

[CaptJCool]

The pop py

What part of the process and when was your experience please?

 

[fifo]

The pop py


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Never got this. Just an email with no options.

 

[CaptJCool]

Never got this. Just an email with no options.

Oh that wasn’t an email

It was inside the app and so I went down the rabbit hole and chose both

 

[kpro]

Do you have a higher status then Gold, or was your year to year status also Gold?

 

[CaptJCool]

Do you have a higher status then Gold, or was your year to year status also Gold?

No not currently

I had been WP over COVID
AND plenty of time to think through staying there or dropping to Gold

So the drop to gold happened

At that stage was about 92-94% for LTG so pushed on flying JAL F to Europe to get over the line ! And the QF F lounge in Sydney too

 

[love_the_life]

And I finally made it

 

[AIRwin]

And I finally made it

And finally free as the bird in your profile?

 

[CaptJCool]

And I finally made it

Hearty congratulations
Look out for this in the QF app



And remember to select the physical card option ! They will mail you a card within a week or two

 

[DejaBrew]

Congrats @love_the_life

 

[DC3]

Congrats @love_the_life

Ditto

 

[VPS]

And I finally made it

I don't think I've got more than 50SC since I've got LTG

 

[CaptJCool]

I don't think I've got more than 50SC since I've got LTG

Yes my plan is to fly on points forever …
However, getting home from AFF brissy I had the predicament of no rewards seats and a couple of flight credits (use them or lose them) swinging in the breeze so I ended up with pricey Revenue tics so acquired 25 SC on the way home last night

 

[SydneySwan]

I hope to qualify for Lifetime One World Sapphire by scoring exactly 14k Qantas SCs. No need to pay extra. I am currently in the low 13ks.

 

[SYD]

I hope to qualify for Lifetime One World Sapphire by scoring exactly 14k Qantas SCs. No need to pay extra. I am currently in the low 13ks.

Not in for LTP?

 

[mviy]

I think if LTP was set at 35,000 LTSC not 75,000 LTSC there would be a lot more interested. As it stands LTG is the sweet spot and is what I am aiming to get. LTP requires too much spend to be a realistic target to aim for.

 

[Jacques Vert]

I think if LTP was set at 35,000 LTSC not 75,000 LTSC there would be a lot more interested. As it stands LTG is the sweet spot and is what I am aiming to get. LTP requires too much spend to be a realistic target to aim for.

Should be 28,000; double LTG.

 

[MooTime]

I think if LTP was set at 35,000 LTSC not 75,000 LTSC there would be a lot more interested. As it stands LTG is the sweet spot and is what I am aiming to get. LTP requires too much spend to be a realistic target to aim for.

LTG is more than the sweet spot, it's the ONLY spot.

From what I've read, only ones getting to LTP are ones who benefitted from different Status Credit circumstances long ago on international routes or who spend more time in the air than their living room.

 

[33kft]

I don't think a reduction in LTP is out of the question. To me it is a lot like politicians adjusting unindexed benefits and basking in the goodwill - at one time people were begging QF for an LTP tier, so they brought one on at a high watermark. Now the feedback will be how unattainable it is, lets them kick the can down the road for a while, and pull out a reduction at a time that suits them. They know their ceiling cost in terms of current LTP holders, and they can model other thresholds as well.

Their key competitor now has an LTG tier too, so now they are really only differentiating themselves with the LTP tier.

That said, they could also increase the thresholds who knows

 

[SYD]

LTP requires too much spend to be a realistic target to aim for.

LTP requires too many years remaining in one’s life to attain!

Even for someone like me who maintains WP each year (for ~15 years) and ticked over LTG 10 years ago…I’m still only about 1/3 the way to LTP…(or ~43 years to go).

I guess I could shorten that to 14 years as P1….speaking of spending some serious cash….

 

[mviy]

I don't think a reduction in LTP is out of the question. To me it is a lot like politicians adjusting unindexed benefits and basking in the goodwill - at one time people were begging QF for an LTP tier, so they brought one on at a high watermark. Now the feedback will be how unattainable it is, lets them kick the can down the road for a while, and pull out a reduction at a time that suits them. They know their ceiling cost in terms of current LTP holders, and they can model other thresholds as well.

Their key competitor now has an LTG tier too, so now they are really only differentiating themselves with the LTP tier.

That said, they could also increase the thresholds who knows

Oh wow, I didn’t know their competitor had LTG now.

I have been focusing on QF and avoiding the competitor to try to get to LTG with QF.

I reckon if QF lowered the LTSC needed for LTP to a more attainable level they might introduce a requirement that a significant portion needs to be on both QF marketed and operated flights. Otherwise I think LTG will remain the sweet spot.