Qantas FF announcement 20 June - "biggest overhaul" in program history

[AisleSeat]

QF share price dropped since 10.30.

 

[Ade]

Same for me. Also the Points/SC calculator is down too. Here's to hoping no earning table "enhancements" to be quietly rolled out at 12.30pm..

ha ha When everyone is at lunch, QF sneakingly rolls out updated SC table that gives you 7 SC in the place of 10 SC for a Red-e-Deal ticket from SYD to MEL (lol)

 

[futaris]

Hmm. Are the oneworld awards changing, or not?

 

[opusman]

A 10k point increase for a $75 reduction. Qantas top up points value these same point at $369...

At least it's better value than .7c/points for an ASA...

 

[Quickstatus]

The really bad news will come later without any fanfare

 

[shuuy]

Lifetime Gold means Oneworld Sapphire means lounge access. Don't see them taking that away. (That chart didn't include priority bags / boarding / security either).

Had I known 7 years ago that lifetime platinum was coming I would have flown QF exclusively instead of including VA, SQ, AA, CX into the mix.

As a result, I sit here with 29k status credits ... when I think I could be sitting at 53-57k.... okay so still a ways away

 

[Justinf]

Bugger it. I only had 150,000 points so decided to use them all for a J return trip to Japan next Feb.

 

[teamhamsandwich]

Anyone got any info on this "points club"? All i can find is a smh article with the following
"The airline also announced the establishment of a new points club, a two-tiered system with a minimum annual points-spending threshold.
The base tier will require members to earn 150,000 points earned on the ground."

 

[sudoer]

QF share price dropped since 10.30.

At the announcement Alan Joyce said the changes would cost Qantas $25m..

 

[SeatBackForward]

I wonder how many of QF's Pilots would qualify for LTP if they were earning for their flights??

 

[Fergo747]

Interesting the 75k requirement for LTP. It would seem for most highly unattainable and with the continued QF enhancements to the WP level (and in general) one would wonder what the significant benefit in chasing it would really be. I’m WP and the biggest benefit I find are the international F lounges. These are somewhat on the decline given QFs penchant for combining lounges and in somewhere like the US, outside of LAX the AA ‘Flagship’ lounges are open to sapphire and emeralds. Benefit of slightly better seating has been eroded over the past couple of years and now the benefit of more reward seats will be largely gone (not that it was significantly better before). I’m really trying justify the ridiculous earn required for this level. Even if they include something like the SST I don’t believe this would be worth it. I don’t even think it would be worth it for CL access!

 

[sudoer]

Anyone got any info on this "points club"? All i can find is a smh article with the following
"The airline also announced the establishment of a new points club, a two-tiered system with a minimum annual points-spending threshold.
The base tier will require members to earn 150,000 points earned on the ground."

That's all Qantas have announced so far. Points Club won't be launched until late 2019.

 

[Fergo747]

I wonder how many of QF's Pilots would qualify for LTP if they were earning for their flights??

It would depend on what their flights earned at....

 

[Dr Ralph]

Anyone got any info on this "points club"? All i can find is a smh article with the following
"The airline also announced the establishment of a new points club, a two-tiered system with a minimum annual points-spending threshold.
The base tier will require members to earn 150,000 points earned on the ground."

No details provided. But stated to be launched in late 2019.

150,000 seems to be a very low entry point.

 

[Ade]

Anyone got any info on this "points club"? All i can find is a smh article with the following
"The airline also announced the establishment of a new points club, a two-tiered system with a minimum annual points-spending threshold.
The base tier will require members to earn 150,000 points earned on the ground."

QF website states nothing more than what SMH has posted, besides, Points Club will kick in late 2019

 

[Princess Fiona]

I’m underwhelmed frankly.
Won’t change my flying much. Seems to be a completely fanciful offer of LTP when you don’t actually really want to offer it at all. Award seats changing, meh they do that often enough.
Not sure why the big roll out at the SCG, nor why I stayed up long past by bedtime to read it

 

[Danger]

QANTAS REWARDS FREQUENT FLYERS IN PROGRAM OVERHAUL

Keep up to date with Qantas' latest news and information, media releases, articles, images and more with the Qantas News Room.

www.qantasnewsroom.com.au

 

[admin]

Of course there was that time when AJ grounded Qantas that AFF was down all weekend.

After that incident we upgraded our hosting infrastructure. Don't want to talk too soon - but it does seem to have payed off

 

[Rangalad]

The really bad news will come later without any fanfare

Hope you’re wrong, but think you’re right.

 

[grrofunger]

The first rule of points club is you do not talk about points club.