New Qantas Platinum One CC

[skyy]

Current Gold NAB Qantas card holder, just recieved a 'platinum one'. Same terms/conditons price & points earn as Gold. Anyone else get one?? (amex & visa)

[Ewing]

Yep, a few of us received them in the mail last November:
http://www.australianfrequentflyer.c...ard-26245.html (NAB Qantas Platinum Card)

I have a friend who also received the "upgrade" a few weeks ago.

The only real change that I'm using is the Paypass functionality on the Visa card.

[skyy]

ok thanks. doesn't seem that exciting - just a diff colour (looks pretty)

[ozmille]

Got the Amex/MC
difference seems to be the Amex Concierge. Don't think the Gold had that. Would have been nice if they upgraded the point earning structure to the Platinum standard

[MarcB]

Yeah I got mine last week...agree that it would be nice if the Platinum points earn came with it. Also, be careful with the insurance. Unlike the Gold which only required you to pay fof 50% on your card to activate the insurance, the Platinum requires you to put 100% on there!

[Sprucegoose]

Yeah I got mine last week...agree that it would be nice if the Platinum points earn came with it. Also, be careful with the insurance. Unlike the Gold which only required you to pay fof 50% on your card to activate the insurance, the Platinum requires you to put 100% on there!

Even if you put the taxes and charges on the card for a points ticket?

[medhead]

I got the upgrade a couple of weeks ago as well. Rang with a couple of concerns. Firstly as my gold card is part of a package and technically a platinum card can't be included I asked about the annual fee situation. They told me that the exist package arrangement would stand.

The platinum concierge and insurance is different. Note you need to look at the platinum insurance PDS now.

I couldn't get them to give me a full platinum card.

Also, be careful with the insurance. Unlike the Gold which only required you to pay fof 50% on your card to activate the insurance, the Platinum requires you to put 100% on there!

Not exactly correct. The gold card required 50% of your prepaid travel costs - hotel, airfares, car hire, train tickets, etc. Paid before you travel. This was handy because I was previously able to pay for airfares with an amex Amex and get that cover and then pay the other prepaid travel costs with the gold card and get covered by both card insurances. It also allow coverage on awards.

The platinum one requires payment of 100% of the airfare only. It doesn't include hotels and such. There is also a transistion period until the end of April or so where they will provide whichever cover from either card if the qualification was met.

[`X']

The platinum one requires payment of 100% of the airfare only. It doesn't include hotels and such. There is also a transistion period until the end of April or so where they will provide whichever cover from either card if the qualification was met.

If you ask them they will extend out the insurance coverage past april on prebooked services.

I got them to extend my coverage out till end of september as I have quite a large trip booked but since i couldnt put the entire amount of the airfares on the credit card due to limits I was unable to meet the 100% issue. so they have extended it. whether they will honour if something happens i dunno.

[MarcB]

Even if you put the taxes and charges on the card for a points ticket?

I would think that if you were putting the taxes etc on the card for a points ticket, you'd still qualify - this is how it works for the Amex QF cards. But I'd still suggest a read of the fine print.

[pangwen]

Got the Amex/MC
difference seems to be the Amex Concierge. Don't think the Gold had that. Would have been nice if they upgraded the point earning structure to the Platinum standard

Got a letter today saying my Amex/MC got 'transformed' too. I checked over the phone, and unlike the Plat One Visa which comes with Paywave, the Platinum One MC does NOT come with Paypass. The only differences are apparently that "the colour is different", and "the insurance coverage is better" (allegedly). I'll have to see when the cards actually come through..