Flight Centre launches its own loyalty program, World360 Rewards

[Mattg]

Flight Centre Travel Group has just launched its own loyalty program called World360 Rewards. Covers Flight Centre, Cruiseabout and Travel Associates.

Looks like you can earn points on travel bookings and with various other partners like Bupa, ANZ and TerryWhite Chemmart, and redeem the points towards travel bookings.

It's free to join and there's a paid membership level costing $249/year.

World360 Rewards | Travel is the Point(s)

Join World360 Rewards and earn points on flights, hotels, cruises and more. Redeem points across all travel with Cruiseabout, Flight Centre, and Travel Associates.

www.world360rewards.com

I haven't looked into this in detail - does it seem worthwhile to anyone?

 

[Daveller]

I wished I would love to but I don't have my fav travel agent!

 

[AuSammy]

Only ever had appalling to so-so experiences with them. I avoid them like the plague. So a no from me.

 

[Miksmith]

Has anyone used this program?

 

[aikman]

Out of curiosity I went to their website. There is no detail on how many points you earn and how much rewards cost.

I guess this is aimed at those who were going to book at FC anyway. Come to think of it I still remember a time when there used to be a FC store at every CBD street corner but now I hardly see any.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Out of curiosity I went to their website. There is no detail on how many points you earn and how much rewards cost.

I guess this is aimed at those who were going to book at FC anyway. Come to think of it I still remember a time when there used to be a FC store at every CBD street corner but now I hardly see any.

I just looked at the FAQs and it says that you need to open the app and browse the rewards store to find out how much they cost.

 

[Melburnian1]

Come to think of it I still remember a time when there used to be a FC store at every CBD street corner but now I hardly see any.

Many must have closed but a quick look at a map saw about 55 stores in Melbourne, Mornington Peninsula or Geelong.

 

[Forg]

Out of curiosity I went to their website. There is no detail on how many points you earn and how much rewards cost.

I guess this is aimed at those who were going to book at FC anyway. Come to think of it I still remember a time when there used to be a FC store at every CBD street corner but now I hardly see any.

Thinking about it, 2002 was well into what I thought was the internet era, and yet when friends & I went to Yewrop in 2002 we used a TA and I’m pretty sure we used Flight Centre (and an on-sale fare). Webjet had been around since 1999, yet an agent worked-out better for us; maybe because we flew to Rome (via Frankfurt) and home from LHR (via Frankfurt) and the agent was able to bundle one-ways for the cost of a return better than an early online ticket resellers..

But I don’t think many people are buying tickets complicated enough that the average pleb can’t buy close to the cheapest tickets online. So bricks’n’mortar agents would have to be desperately trying to find ways to convince customers they’re worth coming back to … the agents that are left.