Yet another cost saving measure - new FF cards

[medhead]

If I earned the right to a new Rolls Royce each year, and Rolls Royce delivered next years model painted in primer only - I would be dissapointed.

I must have low expectations, I'd be happy with a new rolls every year even in it was covered in Bull sheisser

A model T with a new coat of paint and a set of mag wheels is still a model T (seeing as I started the car thing...)

Are you kidding? do you know how much a working Model T would be worth - even with mag wheels.

Now were we discussing something important, I got distracted by the cars

 

[munitalP]

I can't believe how much fun this thread has become considering the original post was an attempt at humor!

I must have low expectations, I'd be happy with a new rolls every year even in it was covered in Bull sheisser

Yeah, me too!

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The other thing from my point of view is I so rarely have to produce it. Maybe 2 or 3 times a year if that. Its all on the boarding pass anyway...

My card comes out every time I fly on a OW airline, I suppose that people prefer using their drivers license rather than their FF card for ID at check in...

A platinum card is not free, it takes a considerable amount of flying on one airline, ok, some will obtain platinum status a lot easier than others, plenty of f and j flying, but I think a survey would find, that like me, status is achieved through bums in seats in y flying Dom.

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If QF starts charging $4500 a year for Platinum membership ( c.f. AMEX Centurion AU ) I'd reconsider . At the moment it is free .

If the card is such a big issue, then there are other FF schemes that might be better for those that care on that aspect; unless holding LT status, nothing forcing the holding of QF status

The Amex centurian argument is a nothing

I don't have one but I am sure I am in the earning criteria from AMEX would allow one to sit in my wallet next to my citi platinum, my Amex ultimate and my nab gold, my point here being is near anyone can get these cards through application (and meeting credit criteria) however a FF card with status is earned, $95k on my part last fin year, expecting an embosed card is not a big ask methinks

 

[simongr]

It's out there.

Getting There - NYTimes.com

I really should have used a or a

 

[Dave Noble]

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A platinum card is not free, it takes a considerable amount of flying on one airline, ok, some will obtain platinum status a lot easier than others, plenty of f and j flying, but I think a survey would find, that like me, status is achieved through bums in seats in y flying Dom.

The card is free. How you attain the SCs to attain it is irrelevent anyway. Whether you collected the points for the flight or not, the flight is the same cost. Qantas does not charge a fee for the collection of points, nor offer discounts if not collecting points

If you were flying purely for the sake of getting a pretty card rather than for the purpose of transportation, then there would be an argument for saying that it was paid for , but otherwise it is a free byproduct of the travel undertaken imo

Yes, there will be people who attain status via domestic travel but I suspect a lot of those are attaining it thanks to the generous SC earning offered on K/B/H classes which halves the number of flights needed

Dave

 

[NM]

My AAdvantage EXP card is not embossed, and it worked just fine for using the Business Class check-in queue and entry to the FLounge in BNE this morning :shock:.

 

[v8Statesman]

I really should have used a or a

Maybe, but when you posted it, I did a google for "13 12 11" +Qantas and found it all over the place.

 

[AnonymousCoward]

International (well, at least in SYD and SIN) and machine issued BPs no longer seem to have mag strips. Getting into the lounge seems to require scanning of the barcode on the BP. Maybe lounge access domestically will do the same way (necessitating a barcode on the card). Don't know if printing a barcode on the back impacts the ability to emboss the card. Personally a thinner wallet is better for me.

 

[dajop]

My card comes out every time I fly on a OW airline, I suppose that people prefer using their drivers license rather than their FF card for ID at check in...

Well actually, the main use I find for my QF WP card is when I'm not flying QF/OW ... to access the QP . Domestically on QF - OLCI with preprinted BP and internationally/other OW airlines need to present passport anyway, so don't bother showing card if FF number already in booking.

 

[Jobu]

New WP cards

Just got my new FF card - I wonder how much they saved by not embossing the letters. Looks a bit cheap, but I guess only the self-check terminals ever get to see it these days anyway...

 

[jas]

Re: New WP cards

Okay, so I've only seen it on my shiny new PS card I got a month or so ago (hey, it's new shiny for me, first time I've been above NB ) but am I the only one who doesn't think it looks that bad?

Much easier to read than my old embossed NB card in any event.

 

[drewbles]

Re: New WP cards

Been a thread on this somewhere i'm sure It looks like they're only going to change them again in the next 18-24 months with the introduction of RFID's into the cards. This would be consistent with the end of embossing.

Wait and see though

 

[PineappleSkip]

No embossing? Frankly, my dears, I don't give a damn!!

 

[Mal]

No embossing? Frankly, my dears, I don't give a damn!!

It's been a while since a lounge attendant has used a click-clack manual machine to make an imprint of my card (actually, they never have ... I was just being a little facetious), so I also don't see the value of the embossing.

 

[mannej]

It's been a while since a lounge attendant has used a click-clack manual machine to make an imprint of my card (actually, they never have ... I was just being a little facetious), so I also don't see the value of the embossing.

I know Fletcher Jones did take an imprint of the card some time last year, but to date I have not received the 30 odd points that I was entitled to.

I am another one who isn't too fussed, as most of my other cards are printed and not embossed, geez there are some that are even laminated paper/cardboard...

 

[oz_mark]

I know Fletcher Jones did take an imprint of the card some time last year, but to date I have not received the 30 odd points that I was entitled to.

I never received points from Fletcher Jones either...

 

[straitman]

I never received points from Fletcher Jones either...

Have you ever bought anything from them :?:

 

[oz_mark]

Have you ever bought anything from them :?:

Yes I have

 

[JohnK]

Interesting discussion and sounds like another cost cutting measure.

I do have to say that my card gets a decent workout through the year although I won't get to see the new card until May 2010.

 

[straitman]

Yes I have

Just thought that I'd ask.

 

[oz_mark]

Just thought that I'd ask.

Sometimes, when you are away from home, in a foreign city, and you need some item fairly quickly, one just uses whatever shop meets the immediate need.