Can you "take" the 50SC Qantas Loyalty Bonus Reward in the next Membership Year?

[oirets]

Hey all,

Have a pretty odd question, but something I'm sure others must have thought about.

I'm currently in the last month of my membership year, and just got the 50 SC / 8,000 pts bonus from reaching 1,500 SCs. Obviously I'm still a fair while away from P1, so it wouldn't make any sense to take the 50 SCs in this membership year as I wouldn't make P1 regardless.

However, I have another few months to make my selection. Could I potentially just wait until my new membership year in a few weeks, and then choose 50 SCs? Will it credit to my next membership year where it'll actually be useful?

If not, might just have to take the points, but keen to hear of any experience.

Cheers!

 

[RichardMEL]

Yes you can, and yes it does/will apply to new membership year.






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[exceladdict]

Confirming this is working as recently as today, for a loyalty bonus earned in a previous membership year ending february

Edit: suggest waiting until your SCs are reset etc and then claiming it after that to avoid any funny business (so probably the 2nd or 3rd of the month in your new year)

 

[Chrizztofa]

Just an additional data point - I reached exactly 500SCs from a Points Club classic rewards flight on 28 Dec (three days before the end of my year on 31 Dec).

But by the time the flight posted in January, the loyalty bonus counter had reset on the website so I couldn't select my reward.

Took a couple of emails (and a couple of months) before they manually reactivated it in my profile earlier this month so I could select it. The 50SCs count towards my current membership year.