Pay Points to Extend Qantas Status

[exceladdict]

At 1c/p that's $800 - possibly worth even more if you normally use your points for J travel, which would mean you get gold-level perks anyway.

QP membership can also be had at a similar or lower price.

How much do you value gold status?

 

[UP4014]

How many points do you have, I’d probably do it just to save working back up to it.

 

[Pagans]

At 1c/p that's $800 - possibly worth even more if you normally use your points for J travel, which would mean you get gold-level perks anyway.

QP membership can also be had at a similar or lower price.

How much do you value gold status?

I'm a Qantas club member, brought life membership a few years back ( should bring that back for key dates in someone's life i.e 18 and 21 would have them flying Qantas rest of their life)thanks for the information I have about ten days to make my mind up.

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How many points do you have, I’d probably do it just to save working back up to it.

About five hundred thousand

 

[RichardMEL]

Didn't make it to retain Gold this year ,but I have been given a chance to keep it for 80'000 points thoughts on this offer !

Out of interest, how short were you on SC's (I think this is what was meant by "points" above) below the 600 required to requal?

This was the kind of offer QF were doing pre-pandemic - 80k for Gold, 120k for Platinum (iirc). So at least that doesn't appear to have changed

As for the value that's up to you. You seem to have a lot of points, and if he status benefits (above QC which may be limited depending on your travel over the next membership year) are worth it then it's a good deal, but if you're perhaps only going domestic, or not many plans at all, then possibly not worth it

 

[kangarooflyer88]

As for the value that's up to you. You seem to have a lot of points, and if he status benefits (above QC which may be limited depending on your travel over the next membership year) are worth it then it's a good deal, but if you're perhaps only going domestic, or not many plans at all, then possibly not worth it

Agree with RichardMEL here. And some considerations to think about when thinking of value is to actually break down the benefits QF Gold gives you over QF Silver (what you would drop down to) and QF Club:

• Access to International Qantas lounges when travelling OneWorld and OneWorld lounges when travelling internationally (remember you'd have access to QF Clubs and lounges by virtue of holding the QF Club). In other words how often do you find yourself travelling OneWorld globally?
• Priority Boarding on QF Flights
• Additional baggage on QF/OneWorld flights
• 75% bonus points on AA/QF flights versus 50% for Silver
• Preferred seat selection on QF and OneWorld partners
• The ability to book classic awards 353 days out versus 297

I cannot tell you if all of this is worth 80,000 points. You can certainly get a lot of travel in with 80,000 QF points and if you aren't finding yourself checking a lot of baggage or worried about what seat you've got (or resigned yourself to T-80) then maybe it's not worth pursuing QF Gold and simply to stay at Silver.

Remember too, that you want to evaluate who you are flying with and make your frequent flyer elite loyalty decisions accordingly. For instance, before I moved to Australia, United was my frequent flyer program of choice for status. I flew them regularly (heck I'm 15% of the way to Lifetime Gold with them), would regularly check-in 3 bags weighing 32 kg each (due to my constant moving for work), enjoyed having that extra leg room exit row seat on the 777s, and of course the various Star Alliance lounges I could access along the way. Well in Australia, having United status is put simply useless since United and for that matter Star Alliance isn't a major player in the market and United now requires you spend roughly $8000 USD with them just to maintain United status (I know it's more complicated than that). So I decided to take Qantas up on a status match offer to Gold, qualified for that and never looked back. For me, having Qantas Gold status is a necessity and one I can easily achieve through my flying for work and pleasure. It is a status that I regularly take advantage of and one I look forward to using more now that I'll be crossing into Platinum status. Maybe Virgin is the status to have on account of there being a status match now to Gold and the bar is considerably lower for earning and retaining status with them. At the same time, Virgin does have some interesting partners offering reciprocal benefits like United, Singapore and Qatar to name but a few.

-RooFlyer88

 

[Pagans]

Out of interest, how short were you on SC's (I think this is what was meant by "points" above) below the 600 required to requal?

This was the kind of offer QF were doing pre-pandemic - 80k for Gold, 120k for Platinum (iirc). So at least that doesn't appear to have changed

As for the value that's up to you. You seem to have a lot of points, and if he status benefits (above QC which may be limited depending on your travel over the next membership year) are worth it then it's a good deal, but if you're perhaps only going domestic, or not many plans at all, then possibly not worth it

I had 330 . Thanks for your reply

 

[RichardMEL]

I had 330 . Thanks for your reply

So, you were 270 short of the requirement. I call that a very generous offer given how far off you were.

 

[Pagans]

I had 330 . Thanks for your reply

Agree with RichardMEL here. And some considerations to think about when thinking of value is to actually break down the benefits QF Gold gives you over QF Silver (what you would drop down to) and QF Club:

• Access to International Qantas lounges when travelling OneWorld and OneWorld lounges when travelling internationally (remember you'd have access to QF Clubs and lounges by virtue of holding the QF Club). In other words how often do you find yourself travelling OneWorld globally?
• Priority Boarding on QF Flights
• Additional baggage on QF/OneWorld flights
• 75% bonus points on AA/QF flights versus 50% for Silver
• Preferred seat selection on QF and OneWorld partners
• The ability to book classic awards 353 days out versus 297

I cannot tell you if all of this is worth 80,000 points. You can certainly get a lot of travel in with 80,000 QF points and if you aren't finding yourself checking a lot of baggage or worried about what seat you've got (or resigned yourself to T-80) then maybe it's not worth pursuing QF Gold and simply to stay at Silver.

Remember too, that you want to evaluate who you are flying with and make your frequent flyer elite loyalty decisions accordingly. For instance, before I moved to Australia, United was my frequent flyer program of choice for status. I flew them regularly (heck I'm 15% of the way to Lifetime Gold with them), would regularly check-in 3 bags weighing 32 kg each (due to my constant moving for work), enjoyed having that extra leg room exit row seat on the 777s, and of course the various Star Alliance lounges I could access along the way. Well in Australia, having United status is put simply useless since United and for that matter Star Alliance isn't a major player in the market and United now requires you spend roughly $8000 USD with them just to maintain United status (I know it's more complicated than that). So I decided to take Qantas up on a status match offer to Gold, qualified for that and never looked back. For me, having Qantas Gold status is a necessity and one I can easily achieve through my flying for work and pleasure. It is a status that I regularly take advantage of and one I look forward to using more now that I'll be crossing into Platinum status. Maybe Virgin is the status to have on account of there being a status match now to Gold and the bar is considerably lower for earning and retaining status with them. At the same time, Virgin does have some interesting partners offering reciprocal benefits like United, Singapore and Qatar to name but a few.

-RooFlyer88

Thanks for your feedback much appreciated

 

[UP4014]

I'm a Qantas club member, brought life membership a few years back ( should bring that back for key dates in someone's life i.e 18 and 21 would have them flying Qantas rest of their life)thanks for the information I have about ten days to make my mind up.

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About five hundred thousand

OK, if you're a paid up life Club member I probably wouldn't spend the points then. I'm not sure there is any difference between that and Gold.

 

[RichardMEL]

OK, if you're a paid up life Club member I probably wouldn't spend the points then. I'm not sure there is any difference between that and Gold.

I'd agree in that it's only probably more helpful when flying on partners (eg: oneworld). For example, while QC membership allows access to AA lounges, as far as I can tell, it does not give any baggage entitlement (and seat selection benefits) that OWS provided by QF Gold does. QC doesn't offer access to many other oneworld operated lounges (eg: CX, AY, etc) unlike Gold.

This may or may not be important depending on one's travels.

 

[tdimdad]

OK, if you're a paid up life Club member I probably wouldn't spend the points then. I'm not sure there is any difference between that and Gold.

If the travel is mostly domestic, it comes down to how valuable things like priority baggage (like that'd be a thing with QF ) / security / boarding are. On int'l flights, Gold/OWS has more value through lounge access and better access to seat selections and that's where it might be worth spending the points to keep the status.

 

[Pagans]

Thanks everyone for your help.

 

[downloadingdata]

Is this offer still current? Has anyone rang QF about an extension with points?

 

[levelnine]

Is this offer still current? Has anyone rang QF about an extension with points?

There was a post about someone getting it for Gold just the other day, so it seems current.

 

[Kerrodt]

I know of someone who renewed their Platinum with points in recent weeks. They were a couple of hundred SC’s short and couldn’t get a SC run in.

 

[sudoer]

I know of someone who renewed their Platinum with points in recent weeks. They were a couple of hundred SC’s short and couldn’t get a SC run in.

Is it still 120k?

 

[Kerrodt]

Is it still 120k?

Yes I seem to recall that was the amount mentioned.

 

[AIRwin]

Some recent reports here:

Retain Gold for points

Didn't make it to retain Gold this year ,but I have been given a chance to keep it for 80'000 points thoughts on this offer !

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

 

[JohnK]

Is this offer still current? Has anyone rang QF about an extension with points?

Seems to be current but not sure if it needs to be initiated by QF or traveller.

80,000 points for Gold, 120,000 points for Platinum. It does not seem to matter whether you're a few SCs short or lots of SCs short the fee is the same.

 

[kpc]

Seems to be current but not sure if it needs to be initiated by QF or traveller.

80,000 points for Gold, 120,000 points for Platinum. It does not seem to matter whether you're a few SCs short or lots of SCs short the fee is the same.

I personally would be happy to pay 120K pts to maintain Plat....I would value those points bet $600 and $1200.