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The biggest rip off is the way and amount (limitless) of Qf pts (at a cost) released to the public, and then tightly controlling award inventory esp. in the premium cabins without any transparency....atm only the very savvy Frequent Flyer can extract any value out of the Qf FF program!
 
kpc said:
The biggest rip off is the way and amount (limitless) of Qf pts (at a cost) released to the public, and then tightly controlling award inventory esp. in the premium cabins without any transparency....atm only the very savvy Frequent Flyer can extract any value out of the Qf FF program!
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Totally agree to me it stinks of lack of transparency and the suspicion that the premium award cabin seats are strictly controlled for a select group of FF availibility
 
IMO the flooding of QFF points is off-set by the benefit some "status" QFF have with requesting award seat release. As a platinum QFF I've made terrific use of this benefit, and long may it be so...
 
I’ve posted this in the 280k thread, but in the context of crazy charges I’ll paraphrse myself.

I have a OW Classic Award for which taxes were just over $700 per pax. Good value. But I wanted to add HEL-OSL which adds just 200 miles. They wanted an ADDITIONAL $720 per person.

I can get a cash fare in J for that price, or for an 80 min sector, all three of us in Y for $430 total!
 
Captain Halliday said:
I’ve posted this in the 280k thread, but in the context of crazy charges I’ll paraphrse myself.

I have a OW Classic Award for which taxes were just over $700 per pax. Good value. But I wanted to add HEL-OSL which adds just 200 miles. They wanted an ADDITIONAL $720 per person.

I can get a cash fare in J for that price, or for an 80 min sector, all three of us in Y for $430 total!
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There you go IMO currently just ripping us all off
 
At least it's not as bad as this pile of tripe, including such little known secrets from the coughpit as "we'll divert the plane to kick you off it if you are disorderly", "we fly around bad weather", and my personal favourite, "you can ask the pilot for a guided tour of the coughpit before departure".
 
Pushka said:
Oh that’s dreadful. Even photos for Pete’s sake. There is an ex FB member that snaffled someone else’s pic of a BP and wrote a story about it.
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That would be Steve Hui who was being referred to upthread
 
oz_mark said:
Well, the cost of a redemption would then be more transparent. You would know how many points you were up for, and wouldn't have to deal with an unpublished cash component.
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The problem being Velocity would then have room to 'enhance' :eek:
 
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kpc said:
The biggest rip off is the way and amount (limitless) of Qf pts (at a cost) released to the public, and then tightly controlling award inventory esp. in the premium cabins without any transparency....atm only the very savvy Frequent Flyer can extract any value out of the Qf FF program!
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Limitless points sold to third parties on the promise from QFF that they have a huge database (how many millions of members?), with precise purchasing and demographic information of the members, for the third parties to market to.

Just remember folks, in QFF, YOU are the product. They'll give you just enough to keep you a part of the membership database that they make available to others, when they sell their points.
 
serfty said:
You have missed the point. It's not about FB and its "privacy".

He was a member of a 'closed' facebook group and being a member had unfettered access to content posted within the group. He splashed another members private details in the public domain.
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Taken from that persons private page, as they were fb "friends", not from the group

IMO the questions asked by Mr Hui in that group were of a novice FF. He certainly didn't have the knowledge of a points guru that he (seemingly successfully) markets himself to be
 
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