I'm a sliver qff member with 150 points to get gold by June 30. I have a flight booked for July that will give me 160 points. Is there any way to beg qantas to grant the gold?
I have never heard of it happening to anyone so I would think you have close to no hope of QF comping you Gold status unless you already have Gold status and did not quite reach the re-qualification mark.Is there any way to beg qantas to grant the gold?
I guess the thing that irks me is that if I joined new before a recent large bus class flight I would get the gold after my booked and paid for flight in July. The fact that I joined at a date 12 years ago means no gold. So by my logic they reward new members better than longer term ones.
So by my logic they reward new members better than longer term ones.
That is unfortunate but they are the rules of the QFF program. In fact most FF programs. They can't bend the rules if you haven't shown them loyalty. Once you show them some loyalty then they may comp you status down the track if you fall short of the qualification mark.I guess the thing that irks me is that if I joined new before a recent large bus class flight I would get the gold after my booked and paid for flight in July. The fact that I joined at a date 12 years ago means no gold. So by my logic they reward new members better than longer term ones.
Qantas should change the name from QFF to QFS! These days it is largely a Frequent Spender program....The program is called Frequent Flyer.......... not 'frequent idler'
...Qantas should change the name from QFF to QFS! These days it is largely a Frequent Spender program....
On the whole membership renewal date issue, I could understand Qantas not wanting to extend your year by any number of months, but if someone requested their membership year to be shortened (and the renewal date to be earlier in the year), do you think they’d oblige?
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Qantas should change the name from QFF to QFS! These days it is largely a Frequent Spender program....
I do agree that people are getting most points these days through credit card spending, I am one of them.
However when it comes to Status you still need BIS to get the SC's., and being WP all on QF flights I have my BIS quite often.
Agreed but to me it is clear that QFF is morphing into QFS and slowly diluting benefits of status.However when it comes to Status you still need BIS to get the SC's., and being WP all on QF flights I have my BIS quite often.
Somehow I do not think that QF would even consider the request let alone oblige.On the whole membership renewal date issue, I could understand Qantas not wanting to extend your year by any number of months, but if someone requested their membership year to be shortened (and the renewal date to be earlier in the year), do you think they’d oblige?
That is not an easy one to answer. QF has made a decision to track customer value within a specific status group so to them revenue plays a part in the equation.Assuming all customers maintain their status (and customer B does not go for WP), what would/should the ranking of loyalty be for each of the described customers? The odd thing is that the "most loyal" could be different on a whole-customer basis compared to a flight-by-flight basis (e.g. if you were a WP on an overbooked Y flight with a lot of other WPs, who gets the op-ups?)
That is not an easy one to answer. QF has made a decision to track customer value within a specific status group so to them revenue plays a part in the equation.
Who is more important? A frequent flyer who purchases 120 flights (E, N, O, Q class) a year @ $75/flight or a not so frequent flyer who purchases 40 flights (S class) @ $200/flight? In my opinion the person doing the 120 flights is much more important. Others may not agree.
I confess I know very little how an airline works or which customer is more important (if this really means anything) but I do know for a fact that each and every customer is just as important if the airline wants to survive.Whilst that hypothetical frequent flyer's 120x Red eDeals would cost them around $9,000 and earn enough SCs to requalify WP, my CBR-SYD-LAX return trip in J costs me $8,500 but I only earn 440 SCs out of the trip. I have absolutely no understanding of how the airline industry works, but I'll place a highly uneducated wager that my single trip in J earns more profit for Qantas than the 120x Red eDeals do.
Absolutely true.Keep in mind that a lot of statistics mention number of aircraft, frequency of flights, number of passengers as well as revenue. If an airline did not have enough customers to purchase red e-deals then that airline will also not have enough customers purchasing higher class airfares to be able to survive.
Keep in mind that a lot of statistics mention number of aircraft, frequency of flights, number of passengers as well as revenue. If an airline did not have enough customers to purchase red e-deals then that airline will also not have enough customers purchasing higher class airfares to be able to survive.