Lifetime Qantas Club Membership

[Flashback]

Generally right beardoc but I fall into the group that dont think that way.When i joined up as a Life Member in 1992 I paid about 60% of the new individual one year membership.I qualify for lounge access by virtue of OW status and now the only time I need the QC card is when travelling domestically in the USA.
It no longer influences my choices so I am flying DJ a lot more frequently.I presume it is experience with people such as I that influenced QF in their decision to axe Life Membership.

Wouldn't "people like you" be a good reason to keep it going? If you buy it, and then hardly use it .... then it's money for jam !?

 

[drron]

Wouldn't "people like you" be a good reason to keep it going? If you buy it, and then hardly use it .... then it's money for jam !?

No indeed.They still have to maintain a QC but no longer get anything out of me-better to have someone pony up each year so they feel obligated to keep buying the QF product.

 

[nlagalle]

Also my bag tags are both destroyed (by conveyers while flying Qantas of course) but no-one wants to replace them ... the call centre passed me off to the club and then vice versa ... and then I'm told to chill out - you'll get new ones on renewal - WRONG!

One of my QP tags got destroyed on a trip. The next trip I went up to the service desk and told them what happened and they went into the cupboard and handed me 2 more tags! that was about 12 months ago.

 

[Dave Noble]

No indeed.They still have to maintain a QC but no longer get anything out of me-better to have someone pony up each year so they feel obligated to keep buying the QF product.

I would look at it that if someone is paying annual fees and then decides to stop flying QF , then they will just stop paying for the membership whilst someone with lifetime membership has already paid the higher membership costs

Where it changes, imo, is after around 10 years where someone paying annually still has to continue paying whilst by this point the lifetime member is now reaping the benefits of the upfront cost

Dave

 

[yo yo ma]

But QP membership does make a QF flight for most people more attractive than a similarly priced DJ fare, or even if the QF fare is a little higher. But it does have an effect of bringing slightly more traffic to QF than otherwise might have happened.

I agree... another similar example is the banks using professional packages. It costs you $350-$400pa but you (usually) get much more value from them with up to 0.7% off loans, fee-free credit cards, discounts on insurance etc. The banks use these (although most people can generally get more value from them) because they make you more "sticky" to them.