Qantas Club Flexible membership

[MEL_Traveller]

Unless you are a solo traveller doing a large amount of flying over 2 or 3 month period then cancelling, I really don't see how anyone could see the value in this.

- Need to repay $129 joining fee if you cancel and rejoin after 90 days
- No extra baggage allowance after March next year
- No guest allowance
- No partner lounge access
- Almost double the price of the standard membership when annualised

So something like this would have come in useful for me when I was starting my SYD-MEL commutes at the beginning of 2023. While I was flying business so it didn’t really matter, if I had chosen to fly economy, a temporary membership for a month or two while getting status would have been great! (not really interested in having QC membership ‘suspended’ while having gold status)

 

[PumaPilot]

Me thinks this will make the lounges even busier than they already are as people will book and pay for 28 days at a time, i.e, school holidays so even more badly behaved kids running in the lounge and chucking food everywhere........ummmmm

 

[aikman]

Considering people buy lounge passes on eBay for around $50 each then there is definitely a market for this product.

 

[kpc]

As a LT QC and LT QF Gold member, the lounges are are very basic at best. I would save the money and get a meal and a drink at an (expensive) airport restaurant /cafe...it will me much cheaper and better!

 

[PumaPilot]

I agree with KCP but there are an awful lot of people out there who want to use the lounge rather than buy a KFC meal, totally agree that some gold lounges are getting a bit tired and some like the Perth lounge gets busier than a stampede at sale time and that will only get worse.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Me thinks this will make the lounges even busier than they already are as people will book and pay for 28 days at a time, i.e, school holidays so even more badly behaved kids running in the lounge and chucking food everywhere........ummmmm

It would be a very expensive proposition for a family! $750 for a family of 3, $1000 for 4. You’d want some serious use out of that.

If one parent was a fully fledged memeber or status holder the whole family would get in for free anyway.

 

[Flamegli]

Am I right in understanding the Qantas club flexible membership allows access to international business lounges? This would make it a pretty decent option for solo travellers doing a return trip from Aus to Europe (or transiting through Singapore). Would also make those lounges even busier.

 

[aikman]

This would make it a pretty decent option for solo travellers doing a return trip from Aus to Europe (or transiting through Singapore)

Good example. Someone coming from Hobart or Gold Coast can get 6 lounge visits in the one return trip.

 

[PumaPilot]

MEL Traveller, only one member of the house would join then bring his wife and screaming kids in a guests. How else do all the kids get into the lounges over the holidays. I'm not poo pooing it but as someone who does more than his fair share of Q flying (96 Qantas flights per year interstate and overseas all in Econ) I spend a lot of my life in lounges

 

[elanshin]

MEL Traveller, only one member of the house would join then bring his wife and screaming kids in a guests. How else do all the kids get into the lounges over the holidays. I'm not poo pooing it but as someone who does more than his fair share of Q flying (96 Qantas flights per year interstate and overseas all in Econ) I spend a lot of my life in lounges

Thats for normal QC / status. For this specific product, there is no guesting. Everyone needs their own.

If that was the goal you'd probably just buy the annual pass as that allows you to guest 1 and 2 kids.

 

[oz_mark]

MEL Traveller, only one member of the house would join then bring his wife and screaming kids in a guests. How else do all the kids get into the lounges over the holidays. I'm not poo pooing it but as someone who does more than his fair share of Q flying (96 Qantas flights per year interstate and overseas all in Econ) I spend a lot of my life in lounges

The Flexible subscription does not have guesting allowances.

 

[PumaPilot]

great. good news !! Thanks for the info

 

[elanshin]

I was just reading on Reddit and this may be a very legitimate use for flexible membership.

Flying Y return to NA and needing additional bags.
From memory additional bag fees are pretty expensive. This would let you get +2 bags both ways and lounge access. Iirc the +2 bags alone both ways would already cost more than the membership and 1 month.

 

[p--and--t]

I was just reading on Reddit and this may be a very legitimate use for flexible membership.

Flying Y return to NA and needing additional bags.
From memory additional bag fees are pretty expensive. This would let you get +2 bags both ways and lounge access. Iirc the +2 bags alone both ways would already cost more than the membership and 1 month.

See post #13. After March next year no extra luggage allowance