Qantas to launch QFF iPhone App

[pauly7]

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Looking forward to it!

 

[simongr]

I hope it is a significant improvement over the current app. The main thing I would want is to be able to check in properly all within the app.

 

[pauly7]

I hope it is a significant improvement over the current app. The main thing I would want is to be able to check in properly all within the app.

Techinically the current one is just a mobile formatted site and the download was a shortcut link to this. The have been enchancing this slowly, there is more functionality now which is good.

But I'm hanging out for a proper app - hoping this will actually be a proper application.

 

[samh004]

I saw that and was hopeful of something really good. Consume already shows the point balance and status credits, so I can’t imagine QF couldn’t design and build a proper, totally awesome app.

 

[drewbles]

I saw that and was hopeful of something really good. Consume already shows the point balance and status credits, so I can’t imagine QF couldn’t design and build a proper, totally awesome app.

Have you tried Quota? That's even nicer. Shows actual transactions and tapping them brings up the details of it (base/bonus/cabin/sc's).

There's also a new program i've recently installed called Trip Tracker. It's got an 'automagical' function (not that magical) but throw in your FF details (QF/AA and others) as well as Hotel memberships (HHonors etc) and it'll auto import any reservations into the app, and also alert you to changes of any points (I had an alarm the other day saying my AA balance had fallen to 0 which shocked me, until I realised they were just doing maintenance, and it soon reverted back to normal, with another alert to the fact). This requires push to be enabled on your iPhone. Great App and it seems to work really well (I have a dozen or so itinerary managers I cycle through, and this is the least fuss i've seen so far, with the exception of Flight Update Pro, which includes TripIt imports).

Heck something like the Trip Tracker specialised for QF would be nice. It's not hard to import and store an itinerary locally. Couple it with changes etc, and even lounge access guides dependent on your FF status, and you'd have a nice QF-centric app (and if someone did it for all airlines, i'd buy it )

 

[samh004]

Have you tried Quota? That's even nicer. Shows actual transactions and tapping them brings up the details of it (base/bonus/cabin/sc's).

That’s pretty cool. From the looks of things on AppShopper it’s got mostly the same stuff as Consume, but with a few extras as you say… though it also costs money, whereas Consume is free (and no ads).

I see it has BOM info which I like to have, so just perhaps I might consider it.

There's also a new program i've recently installed called Trip Tracker. It's got an 'automagical' function (not that magical) but throw in your FF details (QF/AA and others) as well as Hotel memberships (HHonors etc) and it'll auto import any reservations into the app, and also alert you to changes of any points (I had an alarm the other day saying my AA balance had fallen to 0 which shocked me, until I realised they were just doing maintenance, and it soon reverted back to normal, with another alert to the fact). This requires push to be enabled on your iPhone. Great App and it seems to work really well (I have a dozen or so itinerary managers I cycle through, and this is the least fuss i've seen so far, with the exception of Flight Update Pro, which includes TripIt imports).

Heck something like the Trip Tracker specialised for QF would be nice. It's not hard to import and store an itinerary locally. Couple it with changes etc, and even lounge access guides dependent on your FF status, and you'd have a nice QF-centric app (and if someone did it for all airlines, i'd buy it )

I haven’t got on board with any of the trip managers as I don’t fly enough to consider things a hassle, and don’t mind printing out a few reservation sheets before heading off.

I enter the times of my flights manually into iCal and sync them to my iPhone and haven’t missed a flight yet… touch wood.

Thanks for the suggestions though

 

[Joshua]

Hopefully the new QF app will be like the AA one which appears quite detailed.

I haven’t got on board with any of the trip managers as I don’t fly enough to consider things a hassle, and don’t mind printing out a few reservation sheets before heading off.

I enter the times of my flights manually into iCal and sync them to my iPhone and haven’t missed a flight yet… touch wood.

I'm in the same situation as you, feeling like I can handle things myself and we don't have the constant change in schedule, delays etc. of the LOTFAP. May I suggest one thing that may help a lot, not sure if it was on this site but somewhere I found out about Flight agenda. It makes the manual task of adding flights to iCal ridiculously easy, much more detailed and cuts out the chance of human errors.

 

[samh004]

I'm in the same situation as you, feeling like I can handle things myself and we don't have the constant change in schedule, delays etc. of the LOTFAP. May I suggest one thing that may help a lot, not sure if it was on this site but somewhere I found out about Flight agenda. It makes the manual task of adding flights to iCal ridiculously easy, much more detailed and cuts out the chance of human errors.

I shall bookmark and hopefully get down to using that soon. I do understand errors can be made, as I have made them, I just usually look at my flights, longing them to come closer, for so long that I spot the error

Thanks