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I've only been using QFF since I moved here six years ago (and didn't use it much in first year), I don't recall that many bad "enhancements" over this time? Granted it's never been that good a program but that arguably reduces scope for things to get worse anyway. Some changes to redemption...

Those figures seem far too steep, they'd rule out almost all FF redemptions in Australia. Granted Qantas have one of the highest redemption rates but at 289,000 return in Qantas J or 318,000 return in partner J, this would only be worth it if the base price was $30k. This can't possibly be the...

There’s already a couple fewer banks offering the really large sign up bonuses I think & NAB have pushed their period out to 18 months rather than 12. So evidence of some cooling there. Whether we see more remains to be seen…

One reason against CC points being less is that surely it would defeat the object of the changes and make the FF program no more attractive to members anyway? If you’ve made a tier of flight rewards that’s 50% of what points + pay would be but at the same time cut the points they can earn by...

The house always wins on aggregate but it doesn’t beat everyone. This forum has a disproportionately high number of frequent flyer members who extract maximum value from their points. In reality the vast majority of QFF members don’t get great value from the program. Of course any changes...

Hopefully given interchange fees in Australia are still relatively high we'll still see decent sized bonuses. I'm not sure what proportion of our (still) generous sign up fees is down to the interchange fee factor and what proportion is down to the value that Qantas sets on the points when...

In order of preference, would definitely pick 2 > 3 > 1. Higher minimum spend is fine, lots of places that spend can go. Higher annual fees not ideal but would need to go up a lot for them not to be value for money. More spread out multi year sign up bonuses would really ruin the CC game.

That live availability chart is very unreliable, have clicked through multiple of those on other routes only to find no reward seats. Better to cross-check with the multi city tool. CGK is a pretty decent route for reward seats but not sure about this close to travel date.

One of the reasons I'm ambivalent about these changes is because - even if you disregard differing award availability between airlines - only a minority of the potential reward seats on QFF for a lot of routes are on Qantas metal. Taking into account availability, this gets even more the case...

It's a pretty cough system right now. The supposed classic reward availability when you open up the calendar is a sham. Eg SYD - JFK in J shows up as CR seats available on 6, 20, 25 and 29 May 2024. This is supposed to be J specific as selecting economy shows much more (supposed) CR...

I'd book the Garuda flight direct and worry about the rest later. 2 hours is not a lot of time. QF should refund that trip they cancelled. Hopefully travel insurance should help out if any issues?

EK is not great value for J rewards. But given F rewards have exactly the same carrier charges it's still wonderful value for F. Doing STN - DXB - BNE in F for 237,500 + $1900ish on Sunday. A lot of points and carrier charges but even with this in mind, long haul EK F is still the single best...

Selfishly I would prefer Qantas didn't make their website that much more user friendly even though objectively it'd be an easy win for them. I've found a few redemptions from playing around with the multi city tool and quite a lot of casual fliers I talk to find the booking system hard to...

I got an accidental 318,000 oneworld award points refund at the final stage of booking. Entire booking went through fine, all travel done several months ago, points never got deducted.

Sorry I meant submit documents online!

I'm going to call up tomorrow first and try and speak to someone else. If they give me different advice then I'll just apply online...

One of their Australia based call centre people told me over the phone I could... Though...looking at the website it says I'll need to apply online, get an application number and then can bring my documents into branch. If someone in the branch is looking at the documents (rather than just...

Ah, good point about the both directions thing. Becomes a much less attractive proposition! Exchange rate movements are always a tricky thing to pick especially given Fed will almost certainly move on rate cuts sooner than the RBA.

How does this deal look to people? ============================= Earn up to 125,000 bonus Qantas Points as a new converter±: Convert minimum $20,000 AUD and earn 40,000 bonus points. Or, convert minimum $40,000 AUD and earn 80,000 bonus points. Or, convert minimum $75,000 AUD and earn 125,000...

I'll be going into the branch on Saturday to lodge an application for the FF Black, has anyone found an in person branch application to be more successful?