What is bronze membership worth?

[DJ737]

Hi there

Qantas Bronze has one redeeming factor over the other levels, If you fail to move up a level from bronze they don't send you down any further.

Cheers
DJ737

 

[localknowledge]

It's not the points that count, it's the status credits which actually prove you are a QF customer.

While 600K points is a fair number, it doesn't mean you earned them on Qantas.

I agree with what you say about the points and potentially not earning them on Qantas, but SC (especially on this forum for fast-tracking) are usually with AA or other OW carriers, as Qantas earn ratio for SC is poor. Thus, having alot of SC does not prove you earn't them on Qantas. Sorry if I have mis-understood

 

[Diesellife]

Well, you don't even need status in QFF... so long you have status in other oneworld airlines membership. My business partner is oneworld ruby in CX, just call QF and they will do a seat allocation for you...

 

[markjb]

I agree with what you say about the points and potentially not earning them on Qantas, but SC (especially on this forum for fast-tracking) are usually with AA or other OW carriers, as Qantas earn ratio for SC is poor. Thus, having alot of SC does not prove you earn't them on Qantas. Sorry if I have mis-understood

I agree I have got 420 status credits through AA this month for a spend of about $850 try doing that on Qantas!

 

[UP4014]

I agree with what you say about the points and potentially not earning them on Qantas, but SC (especially on this forum for fast-tracking) are usually with AA or other OW carriers, as Qantas earn ratio for SC is poor. Thus, having alot of SC does not prove you earn't them on Qantas. Sorry if I have mis-understood

I was just using that as a simple example. If Glenbrae is only earning 100 SC's or less on QF then it's unlikely he/she will earn 400SC via AA or any other airline if they reside in Oz.

 

[harvyk]

Q> What is bronze membership worth?
A> $82.50, free if you get it via woolies...



Given you need to have 4 sectors per year to keep membership in FF, bronze membership means next to nothing. There are normal pax who fly more than bronze "Frequent Flyers". Hey there are normal (non frequent flyer) pax that had they signed up to QFFF would have made silver within the year. (I used to be one of them)

 

[serfty]

...
Given you need to have 4 sectors per year to keep membership in FF, bronze membership means next to nothing....

Actually, it's four or more eligible segments to earn status > NB.

Once a member, always a member, even if you don't fly. (Although any points one may earn would expire after 36/18 months of inactivity.)

 

[harvyk]

So in reality serfty, you telling me it's worth even less than I assumed it was worth?

Sorry OP, probably not what you where wanting to hear...

 

[simongr]

A good example of of how different status levels affect seating options is the flight I took today from MEL-SYD.
When I first did my OLCI I was a QF FF Gold and was allocated seat 12D with nothing else available any further forward.
Subsequent to this I managed to sort out my status by getting missing SC's allocated. When I logged in again as a Platinum I was able to select seat 4F with most seats forward of my original allocation available.

Interesting - I was told recently that they kept the good seats for SG and WP not just WP. I had given up 5C to move to 2C and wanted to see if the seat could be given to my NB colleague but was told it was going to given only to SG or WP...