Your Qantas year in review (2025)

[servicerequired]

Always interesting to see how the year wound up !!

 

[elanshin]

Surprised I ended up in top 1%.

Top 1% for points earning too.

 

[Flyerwin]

This year I split between QF and VA so fewer flights with QF. Interesting.

 

[Seat0B]

Always interesting to see how the year wound up !!

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All those Dash-8 flights , @servicerequired. Mad respect.

 

[CaptJCool]

In addition
Top 10% of points earners. Only earnt 148,000 points (redeemed a stack of flights)

And nowhere near WP in fact barely staggered over half way even with the Loyalty bonus of 50 plus the all-in 80…. Plus the on the ground earning of 30
So top 5% of flyers for a very ordinary SC earn (code share, rewards tics plus non double DSC)

 

[levelnine]

If you needed about 400K QFF to be in the top 1% of earners and QFF has 17.6M members that earned 222 billion points last year, that means....

The top 1% of earners earned at least 70 billion QFF, or roughly 31% of all points earned in the last year. And probably much more as there will be plenty in the top 1% that are way above the 400K mark.

In other words, the top 1% earn at least 30% of all points.

The QFF economy is one of the most unequal around!

 

[akenne21]

32 flights, 82,031 kms
Top 1% of flyers, 5% of points earners (330k).
Membership year end August, requalified WP by November but unlikely to make P1… LTG last year though so wondering whether to start diversifying with other carriers…

 

[elanshin]

Looks like the most obvious metric for % flyer is distance.

 

[jonboixxx]

It seems like the threshold for 1% Flyer is about 80,000 km flown. Does that seem about right?

 

[chitown_boy]

About to hit QF platinum for the first time end of Dec - with QF km's representing 25% of my flying this year (really diversified across OW metal) with only 9 out of 43 flights being on QF metal (and only 70 SC out of 1433 via double SC) - was a very very tough road to my first QFF OWE status !

 

[Scarlett]

I took four flights, but two of them were rewards tix; interesting that they were counted. As LTG I didn’t get any ‘Top %’ figure (or more accurately ‘bottom %’ ) for my lack of flights.

I wonder who cares less, QF or I?

Maintained WP with VA though… and *G with TK.

 

[bussyboy]

1% earners here but I’ve never made it to PC+ (although did get relatively close last member year ending July).

So I can only assume the PC+ crowd are less than 1%!

PC+ but only top 5% earner - guess that comes down to timing being a July anniversary.

The redemptions doesn't correctly reflect cancelled reward flights

 

[Vic]

Top 1% of flyers with 30 flights and 5% for points earners.
Number of flights matches ok with My Fligth Radar which says 34 QF flights (note 4 flights since 16 December).

The interesting part is the business rewards that says the business earned on 24 flights, but I put all flights into the business account. The business also flew 187169 km, versus me only flying 123 716 km....

 

[ChrisFlyer]

Busy year... top 5% of flyers, and a lot of flight rewards. Helped greatly by the phrase, "I'd like to request the release of a classic reward seat", haha.

 

[Bundy Bear]

I wonder what I didn't tick in the Qantas page as I haven't seen the email.

 

[elanshin]

Busy year... top 5% of flyers, and a lot of flight rewards. Helped greatly by the phrase, "I'd like to request the release of a classic reward seat", haha.

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Oh that phrase greatly increased my flying on QF.

 

[chrisbris]

Adding my data as another data point to help decipher things.....
My membership year runs 1 Jan – 31 Dec, and I am currently at 7,045 SCs this year — which I'll be super sad to see disappear next week! Still have a few more flights later this week: BNE-SYD-DFW-DCA-JFK in J for 360 SCs. Won't crack 7500!

Top 1% of both:

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[Sprucegoose]

wow I made the 1% grade without trying!

 

[chrisbris]

I got my Qantas Year in Review 2025 email (pasted above) and the data nerd in me noticed it actually includes some aggregate Platinum One numbers, which I don’t recall seeing before. Out of curiosity I ran the maths, because it feeds straight into my long-running “how many P1s are there really?” curiosity.

From the email:
Together, you booked over 178,000 flights
Collectively, you earned 11 million Status Credits, averaging 5.6× more per member than Gold Frequent Flyers

That 11m Status Credits figure is the interesting bit.

If you spread that total across a reasonable range of average SC earn per P1, you end up with something like:
• 3,600 SC avg (absolute minimum P1) → ~3,050 P1s
• 4,000 SC avg → ~2,750 P1s
• 5,000 SC avg → ~2,200 P1s
• 6,000 SC avg → ~1,830 P1s

So yes, you can get to ~3k members, but only if the average P1 is basically scraping in at threshold. That doesn’t feel that realistic once you look at the rest of the data.

The same email says P1s booked 178,000 flights in total. Even at ~2,500 members, that’s still ~70 flights per person per year. Personally I flew 55 segments but ended up just over 7,000 SC — and that 55 doesn’t include ~20 segments on OW carriers. Even allowing for that, it suggests the averages are being dragged up more by long-haul and premium cabin flying than by sheer segment volume.

Another thing that surprised me: 178k flights over ~2–2.5k P1s is about 500 flights a day. That’s a fair bit of flying concentrated into not many people.

The other useful cross-check is the 5.6× Gold line. If Golds are averaging roughly 900–1,100 SC a year, that puts the average P1 somewhere around 5–6k SC, which again pushes the cohort closer to the lower end of the range above rather than the top.

The one thing I haven’t really allowed for yet is DSC, so happy to hear views on how much that might skew things — but even allowing for a bit of promo uplift, it’s hard to see how you get to 4k without assuming most P1s are right on the threshold.

 

[Sprucegoose]

I got my Qantas Year in Review 2025 email (pasted above) and the data nerd in me noticed it actually includes some aggregate Platinum One numbers, which I don’t recall seeing before. Out of curiosity I ran the maths, because it feeds straight into my long-running “how many P1s are there really?” curiosity.

From the email:
Together, you booked over 178,000 flights
Collectively, you earned 11 million Status Credits, averaging 5.6× more per member than Gold Frequent Flyers

That 11m Status Credits figure is the interesting bit.

If you spread that total across a reasonable range of average SC earn per P1, you end up with something like:
• 3,600 SC avg (absolute minimum P1) → ~3,050 P1s
• 4,000 SC avg → ~2,750 P1s
• 5,000 SC avg → ~2,200 P1s
• 6,000 SC avg → ~1,830 P1s

So yes, you can get to ~3k members, but only if the average P1 is basically scraping in at threshold. That doesn’t feel that realistic once you look at the rest of the data.

The same email says P1s booked 178,000 flights in total. Even at ~2,500 members, that’s still ~70 flights per person per year. Personally I flew 55 segments but ended up just over 7,000 SC — and that 55 doesn’t include ~20 segments on OW carriers. Even allowing for that, it suggests the averages are being dragged up more by long-haul and premium cabin flying than by sheer segment volume.

Another thing that surprised me: 178k flights over ~2–2.5k P1s is about 500 flights a day. That’s a fair bit of flying concentrated into not many people.

The other useful cross-check is the 5.6× Gold line. If Golds are averaging roughly 900–1,100 SC a year, that puts the average P1 somewhere around 5–6k SC, which again pushes the cohort closer to the lower end of the range above rather than the top.

The one thing I haven’t really allowed for yet is DSC, so happy to hear views on how much that might skew things — but even allowing for a bit of promo uplift, it’s hard to see how you get to 4k without assuming most P1s are right on the threshold.

ex DSC you're probably on the money there are no more than 2500 P1's