My suggestion would be to start banking points as quickly as is humanly possible.
As wild as it might seem, if the alliance-wide upgrade model that oneworld has been talking about for 5 years were ever to come to fruition, then it would require something like this to occur. Maybe not all under one currency, but the currencies need to have a common value. Star Alliance does it reasonably well. It might also mean the end of lottery based upgrades for international; or at least in part.If you can't beat them, join them!
Simpler and fairer for whom?
I was thinking the opposite. Use as much points as you can now before the devaluation. Even just the announcement of the devaluation will result in the good redemptions disappearing quickly.
I wouldn’t hold up star Alliance Upgrades awards as a good example of Alliance wide upgrades. For one thing you need to travel in the highest fare class of a cabin to even qualify to request an upgrade then you need to manually call the FFP to request the upgrade which must then request the upgrade from the partner. Often upgrades won’t close until check in.
Any good redemptions are already gone — availability is rare as hen's teeth at the moment.
Yep, you have to be quick. You are literally in an arms race with hundreds of thousands of other people sitting on almost 200 billion points. I got a tonne of redemptions to/from both North America and Europe. Was incredible.
While each person needs to decide which strategy works best for them, I'd say it is very, very likely that, once the initial sweetener fades away next year, awards are going to get a lot worse on Qantas. Holding onto points beyond early 2024 is going to be a major losing proposition.
www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au
But this is specifically on Qantas Frequent FlyerI don't see the need for a new thread on this topic when one already exists.
CEO retiring, what changes at Qantas would you like to see
Ive been tricked by that before so I do not go to gate How do you know when it is or its not a trick? Its most frustrating when it is a trick
Mine didn't even arrive, and then when I requested one it was old logo! At least yours has the new red roo.
The loss of releases would be a massive WP loss. But I feel like there's little chance of putting this online as it makes them too easy to access.I'd like to see the massive points hauls for credit card churning removed.
Anything with "a pulse and a payslip" (including Uni students working 5mins/week) can rack up insane numbers of points, completely warping the system.
If QF could be trusted to implement a hybrid system, then one in which there were:
* some guaranteed (non Y) seats for the plats at first release
* some guaranteed (non Y) seats for the plebs a bit later
* last-minute releases with more dynamic pricing (given the above two points)
* the occasional "we're going CRAZY!!!'" mass seat dumps for PR
* no DYKWIA seat releases! (or at least, if there are plenty available, for each one handed to a plat, have a waitlist of plebs to allocate a matching seat to whoever's at the top of the list - for goodwill!)
Dynamic earning gives the airline a fixed cost amount they can expect to incur based on a % of the fare - but "simpler and fairer" actually gives Qantas this already eg. 800 points minimum = whatever cost per point, which can be built into the fare. I don't know how qf in air earn compares to other programs, but I don't feel like it's worth the pain for them to do it on this side of the program. The airline itself is profitable, ATM anyway. @pauly7 might be able to comment on relativiyies.
No chance, QF would want absolute control of the currency given how much it earns them. Maybe if IAG hoovered up shares, but that's unlikely.
I think changes to PC are likely after the focus groups on the topic.
Well if you put it on a credit card you may get extra points on the credit card for QF spend, and if you time it right you can use flight bookings to achieve the required spend for a credit card sign up bonus, but there are other things you can spend on, of course.
