Status Credits

[Peanutbladder]

Hello All,

Sorry if this question has been asked before.

I am starting a new role in Jan and will be travelling at least 5 times in 2023 on long haul with the first trip at the end of Jan. I am bound by the company policy regarding trips and cheapest business fares, and the first flight will be with Qatar return from MEL to LHR.
Now I will make QF silver on the MEL to DOH leg which is on the last day of my membership year (if my extra credits go through for the carbon offset), I assume my DOH to LHR on the first day of my new membership year will count towards gold status ? but do I reset back to zero once I have reached silver and then require another 700 sc to reach gold or do the 300 count and I will only need 400 ?

Sorry for the questions but I am trying to decide whether or not to credit to QR and get One World Sapphire this way and more Avios points.

Thx

 

[AIRwin]

I assume my DOH to LHR on the first day of my new membership year will count towards gold status ?

Yes

but do I reset back to zero once I have reached silver and then require another 700 sc to reach gold or do the 300 count and I will only need 400 ?

Status credits from the previous membership year will expire so you'll need 700

 

[RooFlyer]

Your SC count will reset overnight before the first day of your membership year, but I'm not sure what time zone they use. Your SC count will then go to zero, apart from any status extension rollovers you might be entitled to; I've lost track of those.

QR flights will very likely be slow to credit to you QFF account, so you will probably only get recognised as Silver later (??a week or two??) - not in time for the DOH-LHR leg. Assuming your DOH-LHR leg is in fact on the first day of your membership year, then those SCs will take you from zero to X for your new membership year (again, unless you get some rollovers).

 

[justinbrett]

I'm not sure what time zone they use.

It’s local time of the departing flight. You could squeeze in an extra day into your membership year by flying west all the way to HNL.

 

[RooFlyer]

Yes

I think the OP meant will it will count towards gold status, carrying on from silver just gained; it won't will it, if the membership year has just finished at silver?

 

[AIRwin]

Your SC count will then go to zero, apart from any status extension rollovers you might be entitled to; I've lost track of those.

Looks like 100 will be rolled over to the new membership year:

Status Support | Qantas Frequent Flyer

Qantas is offering eligible Frequent Flyer members additional support including a 12-month status extension and the ability to rollover Status Credits to help with maintaining their tier. Details here.

www.qantas.com

 

[Cognac]

I think the OP meant will it will count towards gold status, carrying on from silver just gained; it won't will it, if the membership year has just finished at silver?

I read it initially as asking if it was 300 SC to reach silver, and then 700 extra credits to get to gold (ie, 1000 total credits [300+700] to get to gold, 2400 total [300+700+1400] credits to get to WP)

So I guess for clarification for the OP:

The SCs listed for the frequent flyer tiers are TOTAL for your membership year, not incremental. So once you get to Silver at 300 you only need 400 extra within that membership year for a total of 700 to get to gold (for the first time).

However, as your membership year is ending, the second leg of your trip to LHR will count towards the new membership year. You will have achieved silver for the next year, but the SCs are reset to 0. So you'll only need 250 SCs to "requalify" for silver, but you'll still need a TOTAL of 700 in the new membership year to tick over to gold (250 for silver requalification, and then 450 additional SCs to qualify for gold).

 

[Peanutbladder]

I read it initially as asking if it was 300 SC to reach silver, and then 700 extra credits to get to gold (ie, 1000 total credits [300+700] to get to gold, 2400 total [300+700+1400] credits to get to WP)

So I guess for clarification for the OP:

The SCs listed for the frequent flyer tiers are TOTAL for your membership year, not incremental. So once you get to Silver at 300 you only need 400 extra within that membership year for a total of 700 to get to gold (for the first time).

However, as your membership year is ending, the second leg of your trip to LHR will count towards the new membership year. You will have achieved silver for the next year, but the SCs are reset to 0. So you'll only need 250 SCs to "requalify" for silver, but you'll still need a TOTAL of 700 in the new membership year to tick over to gold (250 for silver requalification, and then 450 additional SCs to qualify for gold).

Thank you all, and many thanks for the clarification on the points resetting and needing another 700 for "going for gold". I think as the points will reset QR Privilege Club is the way to go as the trip will leave me only 54 short of gold (One World Sapphire).