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100% disagree. Indeed, it is incredibly easy to prove you are wrong. The world has hundreds of thousands of points programs. 99.9% of them attract no attention from anyone. Indeed, even within the world of airline and hotel programs, there's only a small (and decreasing) number that attract...

Good perspective. Even for the people that love the hunt of finding award seats, they will have a breaking point where all the joy has been sapped out of the points game. My guess would be a lot more people are going to hit that breaking point as the devaluations mounts and mount.

Agree nothing will happen. Just pushes *A that little bit closer to being an alliance in name only.

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Not sure what you mean. It's absolutely worth paying hundreds of dollars per year for a membership or tens of thousands of dollars chasing lifetime gold to get access to the hallowed toastie machine. Those toastie machines must be Qantas' highest performing asset. Never have so many people paid...

Does this mean JQ pax will be able to easily access the SYD lounges again? If so, QF better be planning some expansions for those lounges!

Great news. Category 3 as well, so dirt cheap points prices.

Two and a half years after it changed the exclusion period from 12 to 18 months, it has now been changed to 24 months. Qantas and Rewards products still appear to be treated separately.

Keep in mind that no one knows what the credit card landscape is going to look like in 18 months. If the RBA's proposed interchange caps are implemented, the credit card points game in Australia will be, by today's standards, dead. We're talking sign-up bonuses of under 50K points & earn rates...

For anyone with a Chase credit card or United status, United has dumped a huge amount of IN inventory between Australia and North America for next year — up to 9 seats in business class. Can view the dates at https://seats.aero/pnpz and select IN

What you'll find with all these products is you are buying points at a minimum of 0.5-1c/pt. For example, the home insurance product is just a white label product from Auto & General. Put in the identical details with another of their brands, such as Budget Direct, and you'll get the exact same...

Avios for access to the full suite of redemption partners on BA/QR/IB/etc. In particular, 90K Australia-Europe in QSuites. Cathay for expanded access to reward seats on their own flights.

I don't think anyone is going to be able to offer any good options because points earning is only heading in one direction, and it's steeply down. Amex Plat devaluing soon. Enjoy what you can while it lasts. If the interchange rate caps come in, you'll be earning next to nothing on that spend.

Impossible to say, but given it is such a niche feature that only a small percentage of people would be using, I'd say it's unlikely to be on their radar. Of course, if they did see a big uptick in usage, I could see it being nerfed.

It'll be interesting to see. I think the UK is instructive because their interchange cap is identical to what the RBA is proposing. It is hard to see how Amex AU could afford to be 50+% more generous than Amex UK if the caps come into force. On the loss of customers, the question becomes: where...

I think there will be a further devaluation once the interchange caps hit. The regular banks will go first, and Amex will follow suit to remain competitive (they'll have to lower their merchant rates to ensure merchants continue to accept Amex). Take the UK as an example. UK Amex Plat earns...

Some Centurion card holders have already been informed.

Loss of Avios and Cathay 2:1 is going to hurt.

Yep, sounds brutal from the rumours. Anyone with a lot of MR should be making plans to offload them before this deval.

If true, it makes sense. Qantas devalued classic rewards, so it had to devalue classic plus in order to maintain some separation between them. As I've said on many posts (and other valuations agree), Qantas points following the devaluation are only worth about 1.5-2c on international long-haul J...