Qantas now selling Qantas Club Passes [until 31-12-2012]

[cmon0005]

My guess is this is aimed at leisure travellers out of OOL.. considering the new lounge, maybe they thought they could gouge $45 out of leisure travellers who only travel once a year...

Doesn't bother me I don't think we'll see a surge in numbers in the lounges, at least the very least someone paying $45 a visit will help subsidise everyone elses access anyway, or help fund improvements in the lounges.

 

[Hvr]

This is an interesting part of the offer:

Priority check-in for domestic travel

I wonder if you could buy the passes and just use it for priority check in (who uses that now with Q tags) and then not go to the lounge?

I can also imagine the holder trying to use the priority security lines holding the pass.

Apart from the money I wonder what Qantas is trying to achieve with this promotion?

 

[atreides]

Really QF, what are you doing? After the removal of ATA using the 'busy lounge' excuse and years of your frequent fliers complaining about a busy lounge, you offer this. Quite simply it is a slap in the face and insult to everything we have been saying for quite some time.

At the worst, most people buying these are really going to try and get their money's worth. This means more drunk passengers and even less food on the buffet, though I guess this is no different to the current eBay situation.

 

[Limewood]

In our a case 2 friends are travelling with us CNS/SYD/HNL, they are doing the Qantas leg both ways but the long haul with HWA, so as I can guest one into dom. with my status (the wife), so this deal might be for them as they have never been in an airline lounge of any type before plus be nice for us to all be together, but its not cheap by any means.

 

[simongr]

Oh this is just so great. I'm so thrilled that the removal of anytime access has rectified that terrible lounge overcrowding issue so much that Qantas can now sell casual passes. What a relief!

Really QF, what are you doing? After the removal of ATA using the 'busy lounge' excuse and years of your frequent fliers complaining about a busy lounge, you offer this. Quite simply it is a slap in the face and insult to everything we have been saying for quite some time.

At the worst, most people buying these are really going to try and get their money's worth. This means more drunk passengers and even less food on the buffet, though I guess this is no different to the current eBay situation.

Only WP had access to ATA and they could access the J lounge (where available) so QF could sell as many QP passes as they want without having any impact on the J lounge overcrowding caused by WP ATA.

 

[UP4014]

I gather it will be a short term thing, perhaps woo over some Virgin flyers who never started at QANTAS in the first place.

matt

 

[codash1099]

Maybe QF's need for money outweighs their care-factor (if any) for the comfort of QP members.

And there's that word again:

Enhanced food and beverage offerings in Qantas operated lounges including our very own barista

 

[maomaocat]

$45 and you too can dine on such appetising delicacies as this:


(actually, I think that was in a J Lounge ....)

Oh, Miranda...

 

[DC3]

Really QF, what are you doing? After the removal of ATA using the 'busy lounge' excuse and years of your frequent fliers complaining about a busy lounge, you offer this. Quite simply it is a slap in the face and insult to everything we have been saying for quite some time.

Spot on. As many of us said at the time, removal of ATA access for WP's in the QP was never really about solving any overcrowding issues.

 

[Must...Fly!]

I have become more confused at the bemoaning of removal of ATA for WP. It seemed like a fair gripe at the start, in that a benefit had been removed, but the benefit itself, to me, always seemed far too liberal. Admittedly the removal was poorly done but rectified with arrivals access, and possibly could be increased to include when family member flies (but not the member).

However where it is now is a happy medium IMO. It's not like I expect to walk in to an executive lounge at a hotel without staying, just because I have top tier status.

 

[atreides]

Only WP had access to ATA and they could access the J lounge (where available) so QF could sell as many QP passes as they want without having any impact on the J lounge overcrowding caused by WP ATA.

Except for PER where there is no J Lounge

 

[medhead]

Qantas now selling Qantas Club Passes

are there 10 points per $ for buying these things, similar to the gift vouchers last year?

Except for PER where there is no J Lounge

Or Adelaide. Or any of the other QP not in MEL (T1?), SYD(T3) or BNE.


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[tuapekastar]

As noted, it would be rather difficult to wangle $45 of value out of one of these, but maybe not impossible if you had a long lounge stay due to one of: enforced early airport arrival, extended transit, lengthy flight delay. Add on what could, depending on the circumstances, be a very useful priority checkin and you may get somewhere near the mark, but really, you are not normally planning for or wanting any of those situations to occur. And a $40 charge for what would cost me an envelope and a 60c stamp to send - highway robbery.

 

[samh004]

Interestingly I can't find any updated T&C's for these passes, checking both FF and QP. They might be on sale, but perhaps they haven't been formally announced yet. Maybe tomorrow at the OOL QP grand opening we'll hear some details?

 

[oz_mark]

And a $40 charge for what would cost me an envelope and a 60c stamp to send - highway

only $13 plus change to Melbourne.

 

[samh004]

only $13 plus change to Melbourne.

Same for Gold Coast, maybe it was a bug?

 

[defurax]

I think it's very good value for casual travellers on a LAX-MEL-PER wanting to have a warm shower following their trans-Pacific flight. Is it a good idea to sell these passes? I don't think so! I was in HBA yesterday afternoon with 15 other PAX standing up because all seats in the lounge were taken...

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[markis10]

Or Adelaide. Or any of the other QP not in MEL (T1?), SYD(T3) or BNE.


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Who moved Canberra?

 

[medhead]

Qantas now selling Qantas Club Passes

Who moved Canberra?

Oh ok then "or Canberra". IIRC these pass can be used at 23 QPs therefore 19 that have been de-crowded by ATA removal.

 

[ChrisCunard]

Qantas now selling Qantas Club Passes

What are you doing Qantas!


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