Retaining Platinum Without Qualifying

[WhereAmI]

Hey all

From time to time I have read posts about people deciding whether it was worth the effort flying around just to maintain their FF status with Qantas.

I have to admit this has crossed my mind - as after some time off (thank god for long service leave) I suddenly realized that I was going to be about 150-200 points short of the 1,200 points to retain Platinum. Although saddened, the benefit isn't that much greater and thought the better of jumping on a plane under less than warranted circumstances so reverting to Gold would come to pass. Then a letter arrives with my new Platinum card (the new chip one) saying that after a review I was going to keep my Platinum status ....

Is this common?

 

[moa999]

Relatively common for status to be reviewed about 2 months if you are short.
Sometimes an autoqualify, sometimes a please show us your travel plans, sometimes a 50 sc bonus.

It only seems to happen once though.

 

[sarlatcycles]

Is this common?

I too received my new platinum card a couple of weeks ago (earlier than expected as my anniversary date is August 31st). I did notice in early July that the expiry of my Platinum status was updated to August 2011 even though I had not achived the 1200 points in the year. I have since qualified anyway (now on 1410)

From previous posts I have read that up to 8 weeks prior to your anniversay date they will look whether you are going to maintain your current status and will sometimes ask for future flight details to determine whether they will let you keep your current staus even though you are short on the quota of SC points.

Seeing that you are WP and LTG they may have made a judgement call based on previous flight activity.

 

[trippin_the_rift]

FWIW it appears that Gold status now gets you into the 1st class lounges overseas so maybe in future years

??? where has this happened?

 

[moa999]

FWIW it appears that Gold status now gets you into the 1st class lounges overseas.

sarlatcycles,
What makes you think this.
I have read nothing to suggest this.

 

[sarlatcycles]

Oops I think I mis-read the T&Cs and thought I saw a change in lounge access. My mistake

 

[WhereAmI]

Seeing that you are WP and LTG they may have made a judgement call based on previous flight activity.

Thanks guys, thought the above might have been the case. In a strange way it's nice to know something other than a machine is reviewing customer's status .... then again it could have been just a better than average computer script.

All the best.

 

[Dave Noble]

Thanks guys, thought the above might have been the case. In a strange way it's nice to know something other than a machine is reviewing customer's status .... then again it could have been just a better than average computer script.

All the best.

I doubt that it is any more than a computer analysing some specific criteria and making a determination

Dave

 

[markis10]

Relatively common for status to be reviewed about 2 months if you are short.
Sometimes an autoqualify, sometimes a please show us your travel plans, sometimes a 50 sc bonus.

It only seems to happen once though.

I have had a review twice (it was was a few years apart), the last one was last year when I was 400SC short of SG, I have since repaid the favor