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

[teamhamsandwich]

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

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

Seems they've also removed the website section about how you've earned your points in the past 12 months. That was quite useful.

 

[Danger]

Point Hacks is reporting no change to SC earn requirements and no changes to points and SC earning on QF and partners.

 

[serfty]

Hmm. Are the oneworld awards changing, or not?

They are ...

This is my quick and dirty Oneworld Award comparison. It's all over the shop. Can someone check I got the right numbers?

 

[omgalan]

Calculator & points/SC display on bookings is back up, same points/SC as per current rate when you search for dates in 2020. So maybe that's all the 'enhancements' for now, until that one unsuspecting afternoon sometime in the future.

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[Rangalad]

‘Bringing you closer to your next dream trip’ appears to be the new ‘Simpler and Fairer’ (from the QF fact sheet)

 

[ms1]

Hmm. Are the oneworld awards changing, or not?

From Ausbt:
Popular Oneworld Classic Flight Rewards, which are typically used to book around-the-world journeys with Qantas and its Oneworld partner airlines, will also increase. In first class, the cost will rise from 420,000 to 455,000 Qantas Points, and in business class, from 280,000 to 318,000 Qantas Points.

 

[wandering_fred]

Dare I mention the one thing that hasn't been mentioned?

Soft Landings?

Just wandering
Fred

 

[sudoer]

Soft Landings?

Don't think it's ever been a published 'benefit.'

 

[sudoer]

Calculator probably taken down temporarily just to add routes on new partner airlines e.g. NZ, CI, AF, etc

 

[QF WP]

He who dares wins @wandering_fred . But I'm not sue it would be positive news. The use of "current and last 2 years" average is, IMHO, fair. They won't want to juggle too much - it ain't broke, so no need to fix it.

 

[Matt_01]

Well it looks like there is nothing in this that will keep me flying just with QF, increase in redemption rates are not to bad.

75K SC for LTP "tell him he's dreaming".

 

[madrooster]

There's a new hidden feature in the changes that no one has mentioned yet. Not all premium cabin redemptions are going up...

From 18/09, due to the alignment of the partner award table and oneworld award table, partner awards now essentially work a bit like SQ redemptions where you get up to 5 free stopovers if you book a return award.

Example:

Say you are doing a SYD CX HKG CX TPE and TPE JL NRT JL SYD award. Currently that would cost you 78k + 92k points if you don't stop enroute for a total of 170k points.

Say you add a stopover at NRT enroute back to SYD, this would mean your cost would be 78k + 38k + 78k for a total of 194k.

However from 18/09, doing the above routing SYD CX HKG CX TPE stop TPE JL NRT stop NRT JL SYD will only cost you 180k. You could even stopover at HKG as well and it would still only be 180k.

 

[RooFlyer]

I'm half way to LTP with no carrot at all to try to get to it. My'loyalty' will remain divided.

 

[PLANT]

Right race you to 75k in status credits.....
Who's in?
Think I have about 20 status credits about to expire

 

[knightfall88]

From Ausbt:
Popular Oneworld Classic Flight Rewards, which are typically used to book around-the-world journeys with Qantas and its Oneworld partner airlines, will also increase. In first class, the cost will rise from 420,000 to 455,000 Qantas Points, and in business class, from 280,000 to 318,000 Qantas Points.

Do you know if it is effective immediately or can I sneak a booking in the next couple of months

 

[Robert K]

75K SC for LTP "tell him he's dreaming".

that's only 179 first class trips from SYD to LHR.
or SYD-MEL-SYD on discount economy every day for 20 years.

seems doable.

 

[Major]

Note to self...use QF points for East Coast Y redemptions and continue with SQ for Long Haul

 

[Rosege]

RTW in PE up 19% - it was already overpriced!

 

[QF WP]

I'm half way to LTP with no carrot at all to try to get to it. My'loyalty' will remain divided.

Hopefully they continue the carrots being regular DSC offers...but mine will remain like yours. Not enough to woo me back from earning non-lifetime SC's from VA, where with Family Pooling I can retain Gold comfortably and throw the rest (judiciously using DSC offers) to end up at TLG. Then I'll have to re-consider my crediting strategy.

 

[AIRwin]

Do you know if it is effective immediately or can I sneak a booking in the next couple of months

For bookings created on or after 18 September 2019... Hurry while stocks last!