Qantas soft landing? Gold to Lifetime silver

[hunee22]

Hi Everyone,

My husband won’t get enough status credits to keep gold at the end of his membership year. Do qantas still do soft landings or gift one more year of Gold?

He has held gold and sometimes platinum for the last 15 years and is currently lifetime silver (still 1350 short of lifetime gold)

Will this help him at all?

Thanks

 

[RichardMEL]

Well, obviously guaranteed to drop to LTS. In that sense, ileither way it would be a soft landing.

Depending on how short from the 600 SC he is, QF MAY offer an 80k (at last anecdotal report) point cost to retain Gold - but it is solely at the discretion of QFF. There is no public set formula for this process.

 

[sudoer]

gift one more year of Gold?

Outside of covid status extensions, I haven't seen any reports of members being gifted an extra year of status

 

[opusman]

A soft landing would be if he was Platinum, and failed to retain - he would drop to Gold under a soft landing.
If he is lifetime silver and loses gold then he's still lifetime silver. Not a soft landing technically!

 

[exceladdict]

Hi Everyone,

My husband won’t get enough status credits to keep gold at the end of his membership year. Do qantas still do soft landings or gift one more year of Gold?

He has held gold and sometimes platinum for the last 15 years and is currently lifetime silver (still 1350 short of lifetime gold)

Will this help him at all?

Thanks

When is his end of membership year? Please do report back with what happens, and also how short he is. If he hasn't had a retain offer and it's in the last month of the membership year it could be worth calling or emailing to ask.

 

[SeatBackForward]

I've never seen it explicitly stated, but do you still need the four~ QF Flights per year to have lifetime status recognised? Or could you not fly QF for years and then you'll still be at the LT status for the first flight after that time?

 

[sudoer]

I've never seen it explicitly stated, but do you still need the four~ QF Flights per year to have lifetime status recognised? Or could you not fly QF for years and then you'll still be at the LT status for the first flight after that time?

No squiggles required to keep LTG

 

[SeatBackForward]

No squiggles required to keep LTG

So ripe for enhancing in the near future.

 

[DrJ]

Well, obviously guaranteed to drop to LTS. In that sense, ileither way it would be a soft landing.

Depending on how short from the 600 SC he is, QF MAY offer an 80k (at last anecdotal report) point cost to retain Gold - but it is solely at the discretion of QFF. There is no public set formula for this process.

If he has been a continuous 15 years of at least SG, with some WP in the mix, would be very disappointed if the 80k pts offer wasn't made.

 

[Cloud9]

So ripe for enhancing in the near future.

Dunno. Even the slimiest marketing executive would have a hell of a hard time trying to sell something as Lifetime when you still needed to hit a qualifier after the fact.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Dunno. Even the slimiest marketing executive would have a hell of a hard time trying to sell something as Lifetime when you still needed to hit a qualifier after the fact.

They'll just water down the benefits if you don't meet some certain criteria. They'd probably start with reducing lounge accessibility, then perhaps take away the oneworld equivalence unless you've done XYZ..

I'll stop now, this sort of hairbrained advice should come in the form of a six figured consulting gig to QF.

 

[DC3]

Why not send him away on a nice trip that will get him to LTG? Is that an option?

 

[oz_mark]

I've never seen it explicitly stated, but do you still need the four~ QF Flights per year to have lifetime status recognised? Or could you not fly QF for years and then you'll still be at the LT status for the first flight after that time?

You don't need to do anything to retain LTG (well, apart from stay alive).

 

[JohnK]

So ripe for enhancing in the near future.

Are you gunning for a position at Qantas loyalty?

 

[Robert K]

I was short 300 sc last year and they compd me platinum for another year.

 

[exceladdict]

I was short 300 sc last year and they compd me platinum for another year.

What's your travel/end of year SC balance like for the two years before this?

 

[RichardMEL]

I was short 300 sc last year and they compd me platinum for another year.

Status extention perhaps rather than comp? Would potentially have been depending on membership anniversary.

 

[Robert K]

What's your travel/end of year SC balance like for the two years before this?

Was pretty lame during covid. Pretty close to 0 I’d imagine.

Status extention perhaps rather than comp? Would potentially have been depending on membership anniversary.

Yeah that’s what I meant!
My year ends December. So it was around the time of bad press, maybe they were being generous during that period.

 

[Justinf]

I was 300 SC short last year and they extended my Gold status.
Not so fortunate on July this year. 260 SC short and soft landed to silver, which I expected.

 

[RichardMEL]

I was 300 SC short last year and they extended my Gold status.
Not so fortunate on July this year. 260 SC short and soft landed to silver, which I expected.

June 30 anniversaries got the status support extension in 2023.

In other words, not really relevant to this situation imo.