Qantas Points Club Discussion

[Port Power]

So do you not automatically get a second set of lounge passes in the second year ?

Yes, if you retain PC. If you don’t make the level by your anniversary and lose PC, you can still earn it again during the year and will receive the lounge passes when you do.

 

[SYD]

Remember you have to spend $99 of your own money twice to claim the wine vouchers!

But spent wisely they can earn a few points to help tick over PC for another year.

 

[Port Power]

But spent wisely they can earn a few points to help tick over PC for another year.

Absolutely! Another 10,000 bonus never goes astray.

 

[sudoer]

SC aren’t relevant to Points Club.

@exceladdict was responding to bolded section below

Need about 10,000 to maintain points club plus but am wondering if it is worth it.

A benefit of Points Club Plus is rolling over 100 SC, in addition to the status support rollover.

 

[Duffa]

is the 100 SC rollover useful to you?

No.
Only made silver once in my life.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I’m 9k short to requalify for points club, but really can’t see the benefit of getting the extra points. I get lounge passes for silver and all of them bar one went unused this year. The $50 hotel voucher is useful, but I’d need to spend $172 on a case of wine to get my $50 voucher.

The ‘exclusive’ points club offers seem to have alluded me. Although the status credits for my QF flight were a bonus (but I can’t find any availability for the next year on where I want to go, so likely no benefit for me).

The reduction in Bankwest QFFF points earning was the reason for falling short.

 

[SYD]

I’m 9k short to requalify for points club, but really can’t see the benefit of getting the extra points. I get lounge passes for silver and all of them bar one went unused this year. The $50 hotel voucher is useful, but I’d need to spend $172 on a case of wine to get my $50 voucher.

The ‘exclusive’ points club offers seem to have alluded me. Although the status credits for my QF flight were a bonus (but I can’t find any availability for the next year on where I want to go, so likely no benefit for me).

The reduction in Bankwest QFFF points earning was the reason for falling short.

One 10k bonus points case of wine using a voucher (if you still have?) will easily get you over. There’s actually some decent offers right now. I ordered two cases and got close to 20k points today before the wine arrives tomorrow!

The SC on award flights is the main attraction for me. A cheeky trip to SIN via PER even in whY was not to be sniffed at. I have a shedload of QFF pts and they’re coming in handy for domestics flights that are otherwise quite pricey but still plenty of award seats days and weeks out.

 

[squid01]

I’m due to hit points club plus around October. My roll over date is next Feb 2023. If I hit PPC soon will my Qantas club membership only be valid till Feb 2023? Or they give you a full 12 months of it?

 

[sudoer]

I’m due to hit points club plus around October. My roll over date is next Feb 2023. If I hit PPC soon will my Qantas club membership only be valid till Feb 2023? Or they give you a full 12 months of it?

It'll be valid until Feb 2024 - you get remainder of current membership year plus 12 months.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

One 10k bonus points case of wine using a voucher (if you still have?) will easily get you over. There’s actually some decent offers right now. I ordered two cases and got close to 20k points today before the wine arrives tomorrow!

The SC on award flights is the main attraction for me. A cheeky trip to SIN via PER even in whY was not to be sniffed at. I have a shedload of QFF pts and they’re coming in handy for domestics flights that are otherwise quite pricey but still plenty of award seats days and weeks out.

Yeah… but save for the SCs - which are nice if you need them… even with my $50 wine voucher I’m $72 in the red

 

[SYD]

Yeah… but save for the SCs - which are nice if you need them… even with my $50 wine voucher I’m $72 in the red

Well, you do get 12 bottles of red (or white) as well!

Compare that to just buying 10k pts outright from QFF for a future award.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Well, you do get 12 bottles of red (or white) as well!

Compare that to just buying 10k pts outright from QFF for a future award.

True! But I’m not a wine drinker (small snag)

 

[SYD]

True! But I’m not a wine drinker (small snag)

Christmas presents, Fathers Day, Birthdays, Mondays…

 

[levelnine]

True! But I’m not a wine drinker (small snag

I wouldn't pay money for PC in your situation.

You find the lounge passes of little benefit, you aren't going to make use of the wine vouchers, the hotel vouchers are of marginal benefit (you can very frequently get a better rate that more than offsets the voucher by booking direct or find an equivalent discount through a cash back site), and the SC earn on reward flights isn't going to help you make the step up to Gold.

My view is the only benefit of any real worth is the SC earn on reward flights. And if that isn't helping you requalify for Gold/Plat/P1, the program is a gimmick.

 

[Vic]

I actually used my hotel voucher this year for a hotel near Berlin hauptbahnhof. Just a random hotel requirement, none of my usual hotel memberships were being useful. So I just searched Qantas hotels, and bang decent business hotel came up within easy walking distance to the train station.
But yeah, without that need the voucher would've been rather useless.

 

[SYD]

We both used 1x each for two upcoming stays. QF Hotels was the same price as elsewhere plus the bonus points - so a no brainer.

 

[Mr H]

I will take any status I can get just in case it gets me hidden benefits or better treatment in an emergency, but I agree the benefits are marginal at best. I am teetotal (since July 2021) so my wine vouchers are given away on this site. I do not fly domestically (why would I when I am already in Melbourne?) and overseas travel is on award tickets in business class. I have never had metal status with QF and doubt I ever will.

There is a benefit at 250,000 points where you get a bonus 2,500 points. It's a meagre benefit, but it is a benefit.

The one benefit that surprised me was the QF Hotels voucher. I remember testing the pricing out a fair while ago and found that the mark-up for Qantas Hotels compared to the main on-line booking companies was considerable and only high range hotels seemed to be included. But my forthcoming tour has a lot of one-night off-brand cheapish hotels and the Qantas Hotels prices have been reasonably competitive. I am sure that when I had originally looked, these types of hotels were simply not available. I have used my Qantas Hotels vouchers and got value from them. The only downside is that if you cancel a booking, the voucher is not refunded or reinstated.

Mostly, though, the value in PC and PC+ is in the frequent flyer points you accumulated in order to qualify.

If I were looking for different benefits that would be attractive, I would suggest access to a premium call centre and/or waiving the change fees for award bookings when they are re-introduced. Maybe also access to earlier availability of award seats, being able to reserve premium seats on QF and/or partner airlines. Because PC comes through points rather than flying, it would make more sense for the benefits to relate to points-related flying rather than revenue flying.

 

[33kft]

We both used 1x each for two upcoming stays. QF Hotels was the same price as elsewhere plus the bonus points - so a no brainer.

A second data point, booking for Hobart in school holidays, the QH rate was lower than booking directly with the provider, and when I approached the provider to see if they'd even match it (I wasn't considering this btw, I had QH vouchers to use up, just asked out of curiosity while asking some other questions) they told me no because it was a promo rate offered by QH below their own rate, so you can sometimes find cheaper options as well.

I think I did quite well out of that given it was a discount voucher on a discount rate during school holidays, plus I may have been a bit cheeky and booked several bookings for the period I'm staying and then got the hotel to link them, allowing me to burn up a few QH vouchers while I was at it. YMMV on whether many hotels would be okay with this but I cleared it with them first.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

There can be some hotel bargains… I think I got the novotel at DPS airport for something like $10 after using the voucher, which was fine as a place to stay between being kicked out of the resort and waiting for the midnight departures back to Oz

 

[liamg]

Sorry I haven't been able to find this online or easily upthread: The status credits for awards flights go by the date you book or the date you fly? If I book while I'm PC but when I fly I've lost it will I get the status credits?