Why doesn’t Alliance Airlines use QFF?

[RSVKanga]

Is there anything preventing Alliance Airlines from adopting Qantas Frequent Flyer for regular/FIFO flights that are purely Alliance (not other charter or QF/VA wet leased)?

VA has not only poached FlyPelican but also Link Airways in adopting Velocity in recent years. And that’s without VA holding any stakes in those airlines. Qantas however has a 20% stake in Alliance and yet QQ doesn’t use QFF.

So why can’t/why doesn’t Alliance use QFF? I think it would be a great benefit for people flying on their FIFO services in particular

 

[opusman]

I imagine Qantas would want to pay them such a low rate for award seats that it wouldn't be worth their while.

 

[antycbr]

Is there anything preventing Alliance Airlines from adopting Qantas Frequent Flyer for regular/FIFO flights that are purely Alliance (not other charter or QF/VA wet leased)?

VA has not only poached FlyPelican but also Link Airways in adopting Velocity in recent years. And that’s without VA holding any stakes in those airlines. Qantas however has a 20% stake in Alliance and yet QQ doesn’t use QFF.

So why can’t/why doesn’t Alliance use QFF? I think it would be a great benefit for people flying on their FIFO services in particular

I’m sure the mining companies are keen on paying QQ more for their services to pay for FF points.m

Indeed they probably resent paying for FIFO ops anyway so they can take the MinRes path and start their own in-house airline - definitely no points or SC then!!

 

[#flying]

Qantas still competes with Alliance for charter work (notwithstanding that it owns a minority stake in the company). It wouldn't make much sense for them to hand their key competitor what is probably one of their major selling points - the ability to earn QFF points.