How many Airline points/miles did you earn in 2015?

[Aeolus]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

345K total, 192K flights (mainly domestic), 124K CC and the rest.
Not a great achievement on QFF front this year but my Virgin points went from virtually nothing to over 400K+

 

[Danger]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Not enough to buy the four slice Delonghi Deluxe.

 

[Awesom Andy]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

159k from flying. And since I'm SIN based, the other earnings are a mere 214 points.

 

[jpboyce]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

I'll stop when I get a knock back. Until then, on with the quest for 12 application bonuses in 2016!

Hi Dr Ralph (or anyone else who can provide some insight into this),
It might be my lack of knowledge showing a bit, but most the signup points offers I've seen have been with cards issued by the big 4 banks and often under the provision that you're signing up as a new customer. How did you manage to get around that for the 9 applications last year and the 12 for 2016? Thanks.

 

[JohnK]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Hi Dr Ralph (or anyone else who can provide some insight into this),
It might be my lack of knowledge showing a bit, but most the signup points offers I've seen have been with cards issued by the big 4 banks and often under the provision that you're signing up as a new customer. How did you manage to get around that for the 9 applications last year and the 12 for 2016? Thanks.

I think you'll find sign up offers are given if you have never held that product before. And in some instances you may find getting the sign up offer even if you have held that product before.

e.g. I have an ANZ low rate credit card. If I apply for the ANZ Qantas credit card then I am entitled to the sign up bonus as I have never held that product before.

 

[cove]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Mrscove told me enough is enough when I had to talk to a supervisor to get my most recent credit card. Now I thought that was a bit cruel/harsh/unjustified.
I have qualified for their sign up bonus so I am smiling now. We use Qantas mostly for Australian trips.

 

[Dr Ralph]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Hi Dr Ralph (or anyone else who can provide some insight into this),
It might be my lack of knowledge showing a bit, but most the signup points offers I've seen have been with cards issued by the big 4 banks and often under the provision that you're signing up as a new customer. How did you manage to get around that for the 9 applications last year and the 12 for 2016? Thanks.

1) Think outside the big four to increase the number of offers available to you. Have a look here for MANY different offerings over the past year:
http://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/current-credit-card-promotions/

2) New customer simply means that you're not a customer currently. It doesn't mean you have never been a customer in the past. I had three 'new' cards with the same bank last year.

3) A few banks are aware of people churning (eg ANZ) so have imposed 12 month exclusion periods to be considered a new customer. My advice is as soon as you get the bonus points, cancel and wait out the 12 month period.

 

[Dr Ralph]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

I think you'll find sign up offers are given if you have never held that product before.

This is not correct. I had the same offer with one bank 3 separate times last year. Points paid each time.

 

[cjd600]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Hi Dr Ralph (or anyone else who can provide some insight into this),
It might be my lack of knowledge showing a bit, but most the signup points offers I've seen have been with cards issued by the big 4 banks and often under the provision that you're signing up as a new customer. How did you manage to get around that for the 9 applications last year and the 12 for 2016? Thanks.

Westpac
St George
NAB
ANZ
CBA
Bankwest
Amex directly
Citi
Macquarie
Jetstar
Woolies

There's quite a list who cycle through bonus sign-up offers...

 

[cjd600]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

This is not correct. I had the same offer with one bank 3 separate times last year. Points paid each time.

Nab were kind enough to furnish me with 40k + 40k + 20k last year

 

[Dr Ralph]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Westpac
St George
NAB
ANZ
CBA
Bankwest
Amex directly
Citi
Macquarie
Jetstar
Woolies

There's quite a list who cycle through bonus sign-up offers...

Good list of 10 providers, all of whom had at least one offer for bonus points in 2015. HSBC and Westpac also had offers in 2015.

Remember for most of these providers you can do multiple offers in the same year. Eg. I had 3 Jetstar offerings in 2015. Just cancel as soon as you get the bonus points.

 

[Dr Ralph]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Nab were kind enough to furnish me with 40k + 40k + 20k last year

And ANZ gave me 150,000 points, via 3 separate offerings.

 

[dodgeyhack]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

When I checked mine in a bit more detail, it was those Red Planet surveys and QBE insurance (for a flight I"m assuming). Not sure what would be causing Steady to be so high. Also, a few replies seem to suggest that credit card churning is still an option for getting points?

Family transfer?

For me:
Total: 406.3k
Flights: 208k
Cards: 190k
Shopping: 4k
Cars & Hotels: 1.5k
Food & Wine: 1.6k
More: 1.2k

Here's to an even bigger 2016!

 

[Womble99]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Wish it was a lot more but we managed a little over 200k mainly via our cards

 

[jpboyce]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Dr Ralph and cjd600, thanks for the info, very helpful.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Around 300,000 for me last year, split 50/50 between flying and credit card sign-on bonuses.

Currently eyeing the ANZ promo for 75,000 points to kick start 2016 earnings.

 

[Dr Ralph]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Currently eyeing the ANZ promo for 75,000 points to kick start 2016 earnings.

Don't forget about the 12 month exclusion period for this card.

 

[exceladdict]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Mrscove told me enough is enough when I had to talk to a supervisor to get my most recent credit card. Now I thought that was a bit cruel/harsh/unjustified.

On her part, or the bank's?

 

[cove]

Re: How many Qantas points did you earn in 2015?

Never thought I could get maxed out on applying for new credit cards in Australia but it seems I have made it. Yesterday I was working on paying lots of ATO as we will be travelling quite a bit in the next few weeks.
My son saw the advantage of a US credit card when a booking got cancelled due to a CC not processing properly. He used his Australian CC on an American redemption. Overnight AA fixed it.