Not sure if you want to become a QF WP?

[pauly7]

FWIW I've turned up late at SYD QF having missed check-in for a classic award with the Shrek family in tow and been re-booked on the next flight no questions asked.

Same here, have completely missed flights and have been rebooked no questions asked. Really do love WP.

 

[ReLoad]

I've had literally dozens of unchangeable flights changed, mostly by the SYD J lounge crew when on my return flight home. excellent service. I guess for the purposes of the spreadsheet, it is a variable so you can factor in whatever you think its worth, either nothing, or a lot IMHO, I gave it a $50 value for each change.

 

[medhead]

Being rebooked when missing your flight is one thing. Getting moved to an early flight is something else entirely. I've had 2 successes out of about a dozen requests, both when there was weather on and they were moving people anyway. Presumably anybody who turned up and asked to move would have got it. Otherwise, i always get told, sorry can't change a red-e-deal. IME this is not a WP benefit so I'm not sure how to determine a dollar value as a WP for this.


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[QF WP]

I became QF WP both ways, in name and by flying

Don't miss it as my life is complete in so many other ways now

 

[Jacques Vert]

Being rebooked when missing your flight is one thing. Getting moved to an early flight is something else entirely. I've had 2 successes out of about a dozen requests, both when there was weather on and they were moving people anyway. Presumably anybody who turned up and asked to move would have got it. Otherwise, i always get told, sorry can't change a red-e-deal. IME this is not a WP benefit so I'm not sure how to determine a dollar value as a WP for this.



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Strange; never been refused no matter what class. Even had the experience of getting an earlier flight for me and +1 (NB) from a ready deal, then both of us getting an op-up to J.

 

[wafliron]

This is a virgin benefit? I regularly get turned down for a flight change by qantas as a WP.

Being rebooked when missing your flight is one thing. Getting moved to an early flight is something else entirely. I've had 2 successes out of about a dozen requests, both when there was weather on and they were moving people anyway.

That's really bizarre.

I've never had the opportunity to try it due to turning up late and missing a flight, but when asking to get moved to an earlier flight my experience has been the exact opposite of yours. I would have asked 5-10 times in the last six months and the only times I've been turned down are due to the next flight being completely full (confirmed via EF) and the next flight being < 30 minutes from departure - and in both of those cases I've still been moved to an earlier flight, just not the next one leaving. Have even done it with a colleague travelling with me a couple of times - once with a NB, once with a PS, and in the latter case the colleague wasn't even on the same PNR as me!

Where have you been asking? In my case it's mainly been in BNE and SYD, normally in the J Lounge but also in the QC a couple of times (in SYD).

 

[markis10]

I have had a few requests for an earlier flight denied in the past year, it's not a consistent unpublished WP benefit.

 

[JohnK]

Interesting spreadsheet.

I have not tried it to see the result as I do not need to make a decision on retaining Platinum or not just yet....

 

[Mal]

I've had literally dozens of unchangeable flights changed,

Yet when i needed a flight changed the most, qf failed. I've posted oblique references to this before and yes it's a several year old story but i have never forgiven qantas or the dragon at the lounge who refused my request.

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[anat0l]

I've only very few times requested a change of flight on a non-changeable ticket. Only one of them was granted, and oddly enough it wasn't during a popular time period where flow forwarding may have been used.

I've been proactively offered several times to change a flight, or take a more direct routing.


In any case, I don't see it as a gazetted nor unwritten benefit. Of course, even in the poorest of ratios of success, on average a WP should be doing better than other status levels in this field. I can attest to that based on anecdotal evidence of some of my other flying colleagues (not on AFF).


The spreadsheet generally captures both gazetted and non-gazetted benefits (in the latter, whether these are "untold but established" or just plain "unwritten and luck" type "benefits"), so if one has had exposure to these then I suppose its fair to have a spot for them.

 

[Mollycram]

I was a very happy SG.....until friends took me along on a Syd flounge run. Now one Mel/Asp rtn JASA away from WP....and I can't wait.

 

[Bundy Bear]

I know this spreadsheet is geared towards those that are currently SG and looking towards Platinum but as a Platinum I found the spreadsheet very useful.

After running through the numbers I came to the conclusion that the value was not there for me.

In my current membership year I should just fall over the line and retain Qantas Platinum but I don't like my chances for the next membership year.

I got lucky this year by finding a FASA, I will have completed 2 trips to Europe plus a few domestic JASAs.

I calculated that I should retain Gold with some domestic flying and 1 or 2 trips to Europe and so worked out the value to retain Platinum was a trip to the US with a few AA First flights.

I calculated a trip to the US would cost about $5,000 including flights to the US, internal flights plus some accommodation expenses. and other sundry expenses.

The value to access the First lounge and the domestic J lounge was not worth the $5,000, yes I did include some W factor but I still came up short.

What I didn't include was a reason to go to the US, if I was going to the US just to go on a status run then my brain would be telling me not to bother, but if I was going to the US to catch up with a friend or 2 as part of a holiday or attend some conference or convention, example StarMegaDo 4 or OneworldmegaDo 2 then some of that shortfall would be taken up, would it be enough then I am not so sure.

Reaching Platinum the first time the W factor was pretty big. but you loose some of it the 3rd or 4th time around.

My parents especially my dad thought me going to Singapore for 4 days back in January seemed like a complete waste of money and time, and said that at my age I should be saving my money.

If you are doing the weekly or monthly commute and to reach Platinum is only going to cost you a weekend and say $1,000 then by all means go and do it, the buzz the first time you reach Platinum is fantastic.

 

[pauly7]

Strange; never been refused no matter what class. Even had the experience of getting an earlier flight for me and +1 (NB) from a ready deal, then both of us getting an op-up to J.

I have a great hit rate too, well rather QF have been giving me a great hit rate. Probably 9/10 I can move. Great benefit but unpublished ad others point out.