Media suggests QF is announcing all the above this week.
'$50 off towards a return flight' not much chop when the airline typically already prices itself well above competitors, a key gripe of senior corporate individuals interviewed in the last few days by the 'Australian Financial Review's' Chanticleer columnist Mr Tony Boyd yet has (according to the article) 'inferior service'.
And 'more FF seats?' We've all heard that refrain before. With airlines (including but not limited to QF) rarely making public how many seats are available for FF redemption on each flight (except with very occasional 'points planes') and reports on AFF of prebooked FF redemption users being bumped off flights to use the USA term, take this with a large dollop of salt.
There's also 15000 to 30000 extra points for important, but numerically small, platinum and platinum one members, and various lounge invitations. Will latter have the seats available to handle extra guests? Can members find reward seats - if not, what 'value' do extra points, welcome as they might be, have?
Perhaps all this will please some, but more travellers would surely be concerned about punctuality, cancellations, and as the senior business leaders opined, standards of service and what they say is the missing value for money.
Journalists and business leaders have sure been slow to publicly comment on how this airline has deteriorated, given so many users or staff have been 'joyced'. Ask the baggage handlers.
Many international airlines leave QFi for dust, and these competitors by and large don't engage in the sort of wokeness QF practices, especially great Asian and Middle Eastern airlines.
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