Join QF Club to enhance upgrade chances?

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Couldn't see any recent topic titles about this. So I read the AFF newsletter yesterday, and the fee to join the QF club after joining this site's Gold scheme was not too horrible. I used to fly a lot and had QF Club through my work,and was a Silver QF FF. Now I'm a lowly bronze, with over 300,000 points but no status at all.

I'm making my regular ski trip to the US soon (March), and will apply to use points to get an upgrade after booking, but recall last time, when I was still QF club, I got business going, but only Premium coming back (I heard a large sporting group booked out Business on that flight).

Would joining the QF club through the AFF Gold scheme move me up the queue, or is silver and bronze pretty much the same these days (and that's assuming QF club membership would move me to silver). I quite like the showers option in the QF club, the rest of it though seems a bit pointless.
 
Oh, cough. Just realised there's a specific forum for this topic! If a moderator wants to move this to the QF forum, please do so. Sorry.
 
Yes it would improve, you would get priority over those not members.

....which is pretty minuscule! You're still well back in the queue, so I wouldn't join just for this benefit.
 
sigh, bummer. It does look a bit grim. I guess this trip will be a good indicator of whether it's worth keeping a QF FF credit card, or dropping it, using the points for something useless, and shopping around for Au-US flights in future. it seems to be the route with the least competition too, and the fewest choices (United being a total no-go).
 
sigh, bummer. It does look a bit grim. I guess this trip will be a good indicator of whether it's worth keeping a QF FF credit card, or dropping it, using the points for something useless, and shopping around for Au-US flights in future. it seems to be the route with the least competition too, and the fewest choices (United being a total no-go).

Fewest choices? Got plenty of choices, just not all of them are direct.
 
....which is pretty minuscule! You're still well back in the queue, so I wouldn't join just for this benefit.

So is winning lotto but someone gets the money. Handy for the other benefits as well of course.

If you really want something pay for it, otherwise everything is a gamble.
 
Fly the A380 and travel midweek for the best chances to upgrade. You’re outside school holidays which also helps.

You may as well put the request in, as there’s no downside.
 
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So is winning lotto but someone gets the money. Handy for the other benefits as well of course.

If you really want something pay for it, otherwise everything is a gamble.

There are those who would say you've got a better chance of winning lotto than getting an upgrade as NB or a QP member. :D
 
I used to fly AU-US quite a bit, and always fly midweek (Tue, Wed or Thurs), back in the olden days used to get a lot of half-empty flights so my window seat became a 3-seat bed, loved that. Not in recent years though. I've always tried to fly jumbos, as the one time I flew in an A380 (in economy), the wall was too far from the seat to use to prop my pillow, so no sleeping. So since then I try for jumbos, often via Brisbane.

Did wonder if an A380 gave a better chance of an upgrade, but a bit scared to gamble on that in case it's back to economy.
 
If you fly to the US every year then QP (ie club) will get you Admirals's club entry whereas if you are on an AA flight even in first you will not get entry unless connecting to or from an International flight in J or F.
 
the one time I flew in an A380 (in economy), the wall was too far from the seat to use to prop my pillow, so no sleeping. So since then I try for jumbos, often via Brisbane.
Get 36F ... 36DE are rarely allocated, especially on DFW flights - 36D is up against an internal wall.
 
If you fly to the US every year then QP (ie club) will get you Admirals's club entry whereas if you are on an AA flight even in first you will not get entry unless connecting to or from an International flight in J or F.

Yes, last time I went to the US, and still had club membership, I was connecting to AA flights anyway and used the Admiral's Club. What a sad little thing that is! At LAX what I wanted was a shower before heading on to Utah, but the one where I was didn't have them. They directed me to another terminal, had to catch a bus across the tarmac to get to it, which was weird and very inconvenient. Not sure why peopel would pay money to be in that club. QF club isn't great, but at least they have the things you expect (like grog, internet and showers).
 
For those without status, it’s not just the lounge access which people purchase QP membership for. Just something to keep in mind
 
You may as well put the request in, as there’s no downside.
The downside is that if you don't get any upgrade at all you could've just bought a non-upgradable economy fare, saved some money and still been in the same seat.
For those without status, it’s not just the lounge access which people purchase QP membership for. Just something to keep in mind
Indeed. Though personally at this point I'd rather put the money that I could spend on QP towards obtaining/retaining status (but then that's my personal preference - currently a WP).

As good as QP membership is, it won't get me into a lounge if I choose to fly Y/Y+ on CX or BA for example whereas with SG status I would be let into the International J lounge
 
The downside is that if you don't get any upgrade at all you could've just bought a non-upgradable economy fare, saved some money and still been in the same seat.

My reading of the first post was that they were flying paid J outbound and paid PE coming back. Both of these should be upgradeable, so I cannot see a downside of them putting in the request. The answer is no unless you ask. The points don't get locked or anything and they don't taken off until you are successful.
 
My reading of the first post was that they got an upgrade to J outbound but only to PE coming back as J was booked out.
 
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