Fears for points as QF considers selling Qantas Frequent Flyer

[markis10]

Huh? I'm not aware of JohnK's points balance (until he posted it . So he could make a number of high priced bookings if genuinely worried.

Probably worth asking before suggesting ! Making high priced bookings is hardly going to help given ticket validity limits changes ans0d he mostly travels solo.

 

[RooFlyer]

Probably worth asking before suggesting ! Making high priced bookings is hardly going to help given ticket validity limits changes ans0d he mostly travels solo.

Anything else I should know? Destination preference, class of travel preference? :mrgreen:

 

[rogerkambah]

Close to 1.2 million QFF points so that is a lot of bookings I would need to make.

They don't seem to go that far when you start to use them, esp if going o/s. I blew almost 0.5m last year without hardly trying, and I'm sure there are plenty here who regularly spend much more than that in a year.

 

[Kieran2274]

Close to 1.2 million QFF points so that is a lot of bookings I would need to make.

The trouble with such balances is that - like money sitting in a transaction account - you don't really earn anything. Indeed, you are almost entirely exposed to inflationary (devaluation) risk - because QFF changes to point redemptions always go in one direction (and it's the wrong one lol). I always recommend churning points within a couple of years of earning - even if that means taking up some less efficient uses (such as upgrades, etc) - to help minimise large scale risk.

 

[JohnK]

They don't seem to go that far when you start to use them, esp if going o/s. I blew almost 0.5m last year without hardly trying, and I'm sure there are plenty here who regularly spend much more than that in a year.

I am sure there are people here who earn and spend more.

I am still hoping I will be able to use them for the Oneworld awards I had planned. There is an extra person now so the points wont go too far but I was hoping I dont need to panic and use them willy nilly on anything.

I hope I dont become that person who lost 1.2 million points when Qantas folded....

 

[Kieran2274]

I hope I dont become that person who lost 1.2 million points when Qantas folded....

There are still Ansett Global Rewards / Golden Wing members crying, some 12+ years on from 12 Sep 2001 when Ansett when into administration. :shock:

And even to this day I hear people wax majestically about the Golden Wing lounges - I never entered one, but by tales told you would have thought ambrosia was on the drinks menu lol.

 

[Clivem]

My Ansett G.W. tag has moved from bag to bag over the years and is currently firmly secured to my Tumi lap top messenger bag to be a daily reminded to me of the true value of my accumulated points if all turns to S%#t again.

The G.W. bar was good ........ but if you had a sweet tooth they did a dam outstanding line in the 'Danishes' department also ........ the Good coffee and great Danish pastry breakfasts I downed over years was not good for the waistline !



A lot of spares were kept in what was a parts store area located under the Ansett satellite arm at BNE (now the VA satellite) ..... I can still recall all those parts being piled into bins bound for AKL the few days before the hammer fell. time for a beer!

 

[Kieran2274]

The G.W. bar was good ........ by if you had a sweet tooth they did a dam outstanding line in the 'Danishes' department also ........ the Good coffee and great Danish pastry breakfasts I downed over years was not good for the waistline !

Ahh! I'm a sucker for a flat white and a quality Danish pastry in the morning - it's often all I have. G.W. just went up a few points lol.

I must admit I did pull up an old Ansett ad (the Enya one) just before I posted my GW quip - oh late 80s/early 90s nostalgia (although I think my extent of Ansett flying consisted on little more than a CRJ90 flight!)

 

[atreides]

I was having a good day till you reminded me about my AN points

 

[lovetravellingoz]

There are still Ansett Global Rewards / Golden Wing members crying, some 12+ years on from 12 Sep 2001 when Ansett when into administration. :shock:

And even to this day I hear people wax majestically about the Golden Wing lounges - I never entered one, but by tales told you would have thought ambrosia was on the drinks menu lol.

Well maybe no Ambrosia...but yes it was certainly a step down when I had to move from the GW to the QC.

 

[serfty]

Well maybe no Ambrosia...but yes it was certainly a step down when I had to move from the GW to the QC.

I experienced both in the 90's with visits totaling in the 100's+ and TBH, there was not a lot of difference between them generally. (Of course, fares were the same high cost etc. under the 2 airline system).

Today's QF Business lounge catering is nothing like or as good as that of the QP's/GW's of last century, let alone the QP's.

 

[maninblack]

I never thought too highly of Ansett or the GW but it was perhaps a little better than QF at the time, not much to get overly excited about though.