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These are not 'average QFF members', whether measured by the mode, median or mean. It is a common mistake to extrapolate from one's personal experience and think that represents the average. By all means, feel free to say that your small group of acquaintances consider an F award ticket to be a...

The US Department of Commerce's latest data shows international arrivals from Australia in June 2025 were down 10.2% compared to June 2024. Overall international arrivals is down 3.4%.

If you're going to dismiss other award programs as a relevant points of comparison because it is difficult to attain points in that program, then you also have to dismiss the cash price as a relevant point of comparison because the 'average QFF member' would never spend $20,000 on a single...

Putting all the off-topic personal attacks to one side, the topic is whether $600 in carrier charges is a bargain or not. When one takes into account the fact that competing award programs offer the exact same flights for not only lower carrier charges but also fewer points, the answer is...

Tell me you know nothing about the concept of a 'bargain' without telling me lol. You keep talking about price rises — the very opposite of a bargain. You keep talking about business owners — a bargain is something that is good value from the perspective of the customer, not the business...

Only in upside-down world (or 10 Bourke Rd Mascot NSW) would someone think a 20% increase in carrier charges is a 'bargain'.

You don't have to go back to 1995. You only need to go back to 4 August 2025.

That's the risk with last minute availability. It may not show up. It's happened several times before.

They will waive it if you say it cannot be booked online, but you did need to remember to mention it to them unfortunately.

Whatever you do in relation to status, make sure you make use of the superior credit card market to earn more points than you would be able to in Australia.

The media have taken the bait so easily. Making $600 carrier charges seem like a bargain ...

The masters of spin:

It would be nice if Qantas increased the benefits of PCP in light of the fact that it has become harder to attain.

In which case you are out of luck. You can't use your Qantas points for that flight, at least at the classic award price level. You can try requesting for release again at a later date.

I wouldn't worry. By the time you're next eligible for a bonus in 24 months, the interchange rate changes will have come into effect, the bonus will be something like 10,000 Qantas points, and won't be worth bothering with anyway.

In addition to elanshin's answer, not every unsold seat is made available for release to a Platinum. Essentially, Qantas yield management's algorithm decides whether it will release the seats depending on factors such as the likelihood of them being able to sell the seat for cash. You can't do...

From T&Cs:

The irony is that, as airlines have continually devalued their points, brokers are less and less interested in airline miles. The main game in the brokering business today is buying cash tickets with bank (not airline) points, especially Amex (US) and Chase. Consumers are also going in that...

This would have taken an enormous amount of work. Well done. It's interesting to compare to equivalent projects in the US: see, eg, Reasonable Redemption Values (RRVs). It's striking that, as you note, this chart doesn't include Qantas' upcoming devaluation, which will drop their value. With...

Not going to happen. The RBA has all but ruled it out on p30 of the paper on the basis that (1) it means smaller merchants subsidise larger merchants because the latter is able to negotiate lower interchange rates than the former and (2) issuer costs are lower than the interchange rates, which...