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

[mviy]

Only 800 off LTG so very nervous - all that indirect and premium travel justified as “well at least i will have lounge access in retirement” ...

If there’s 3 months before the changes take effect and the impact of the changes is significant enough you are close enough to make a status run for it.

 

[AisleSeat]

The only newspaper I found with any info was on the Australian where it said the biggest use of points were for flights and upgrades, so something around that I presume.
Another status tier? More points planes? Using points to pay for lounge access/priority boarding/seat selection?

 

[jfl]

Well I'm glad I've booked my OW classic award, looks like it could be bad news...

 

[dajop]

Look at some major foreign programs and what they’ve done over the last few years. I’m thinking Miles and More, Flying Blue, Skymiles, Mileage Plus .... revenue based earn when flying and dynamic pricing for redemptions. The big spenders will be looked after, the small spenders will no doubt be worse off, but will be left with a warm fuzzy glow by the QF marketing spin on the changes ...

 

[Kangol]

Now is a good time to screen shot the current terms and conditions for the QFF program so that we can compare later see what's lost.

LTG conditions especially.

What about LTG are you potentially referring to?
It's just SG that doesn't expire as long as you are alive.

 

[kamchatsky]

Looks like there will be a Qantas Pub Crawl event to drown our sorrows....

 

[dairyfloss]

How about they finally add some kind of tie-up with one of the hotel majors, for matched or shared status levels or shortcuts, and earn/burn on each other’s metal/mattresses? Think United/Marriott... SQ/Shangri-La... etc.

Cheers,
Matt.

 

[Quickstatus]

Enhancing of the tiers, While the tiers remain, the benefits are enhanced. Such that effectively everyone moves down one Tier to accomodate a new Tier -WP2

 

[kamchatsky]

How about they finally add some kind of tie-up with one of the hotel majors, for matched or shared status levels or shortcuts, and earn/burn on each other’s metal/mattresses? Think United/Marriott... SQ/Shangri-La... etc.

Cheers,
Matt.

If it is the case, the partner will be Accor. However I don't think Qantas will be that innovative.

 

[downloadingdata]

Not during a sale it isn't. If I can get the same seats for half the price, get $0.006 cpp which is effectively $0.012 during the sale, and get points and SC, what's not to like? I'm acquiring the points at $0.008 at most, much less with CC churning bonus points, I'm still ahead. How much value do you think the increased premium awards are going to get in cpp terms? $0.03 is considered pretty good today, so what will be good in a week? $0.02?

Edit: Not to mention no surcharges on P+P. So if it's $0.03 with surcharges per point, what's it with those priced in? It's not as far a gap as a lot of people claim.

Wait what. If the cash fare is on sale you are still getting the same value per point before the sale.

Say if the ticket costs $100 and 10000 pts at $0.01 per point normally, if they discount the fare to $1 and 100 pts, you are still getting $0.01 per point, its not $1 per point.

Why not just but the ticket with $1 and save your points for >$0.01 redemption?

 

[RichardMEL]

How about they finally add some kind of tie-up with one of the hotel majors, for matched or shared status levels or shortcuts, and earn/burn on each other’s metal/mattresses? Think United/Marriott... SQ/Shangri-La... etc.

Cheers,
Matt.

would be nice. for sure but again... all these ideas/thoughts/desires are not exactly the kinds of things to bring out the CEO and head of loyalty in a big media event.....

 

[Archphoto]

The only newspaper I found with any info was on the Australian where it said the biggest use of points were for flights and upgrades, so something around that I presume.
Another status tier? More points planes? Using points to pay for lounge access/priority boarding/seat selection?

I used some CX points for lounge access last time I flew Y to ADL. It was a long layover, didn't feel like heading into HKG (yet again) and for me personally, was well worth it; bonus - was upgraded to J at the gate.

 

[Melburnian1]

They better not devalue my points any further. They are already close to garbage as it is compared to other airlines, can barely get seats when and where I want.

Agreed. The high taxes and charges for subpar service (Qantas' hallmark) make it difficult to understand why so many Australians are obsessed with this airline and its FF scheme. As the brokers (used to) say, "better value elsewhere."

 

[Quickstatus]

Maybe LTWP

 

[levelnine]

In one way, it is quite exciting. The catastrophe Qantas is about to unleash on the frequent flyer world will be very entertaining.

 

[RichardMEL]

P1 will definitely be affected. Harder to achieve (not sure at this stage if that means more SC attain/retain, or exclusion from DSC offers etc.), but more benefits on offer.

seems fairly obvious.. though "moe benefits" yeah well again that wouldn't be hard to throw a few bones....

 

[Brettmcg]

seems fairly obvious.. though "moe benefits" yeah well again that wouldn't be hard to throw a few bones....

Top Secret project within QF apparently...

You should hear some of the FF/Loyalty-directed cost-saving measures that were thrown earlier in the year

 

[RichardMEL]

Maybe LTWP

Seems unlikely. QF loyalty have reportedly consistently said it's not on their radar.

 

[sudoer]

Could it be priority boarding!?!?!?

 

[turtlemichael]

P1 will definitely be affected. Harder to achieve (not sure at this stage if that means more SC attain/retain, or exclusion from DSC offers etc.), but more benefits on offer.

What are your thoughts on LTG Brettmcg?