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For the first time today, I noticed quite a few P1 tags about. I had seen an occasional white tag, but today there was 4 (along with 3 CL tags) in the 2 rows in front of me.

All belong to members of the Catholic/Anglican Church. I guess it must be the regular trips to Rome or some very regular travel between capitals. One thing that did strike me was all the tags were prominently displayed on carry bags or back packs.

As an engineer I can make WP with Virgin and Qantas most years, but even combining the two programs together 3600 SC is well out of reach.

I was wondering what offer jobs P1's had.
 
davyjohn said:
For the first time today, I noticed quite a few P1 tags about. I had seen an occasional white tag, but today there was 4 (along with 3 CL tags) in the 2 rows in front of me.

All belong to members of the Catholic/Anglican Church. I guess it must be the regular trips to Rome or some very regular travel between capitals. One thing that did strike me was all the tags were prominently displayed on carry bags or back packs.

As an engineer I can make WP with Virgin and Qantas most years, but even combining the two programs together 3600 SC is well out of reach.

I was wondering what offer jobs P1's had.
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Im the Senior Radio/Fibre Communciations Technician for a local communications company in Port Hedland.

I live in Kalgoorlie & work in Port Hedland, born in Hedland by the way, lol, cant leave the place :)
 
ReLoad said:
I'm in "construction"
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Yes same here, Engineering/Construction. I would've made P1 this year, but with the changes to OW earn, this is now unlikely. I'm definitely not going to chase additional flights to make it to P1 though, my family wouldn't appreciate it, and I questions what value P1 has compared to WP if you do fly outside of QF.

The beauty of construction is, despite their recent efforts, you still generally need to build the bigger things where they are needed.
 
I am in "Consulting"

I have long term clients / projects based in Singapore and across Australia
 
davyjohn said:
For the first time today, I noticed quite a few P1 tags about. I had seen an occasional white tag, but today there was 4 (along with 3 CL tags) in the 2 rows in front of me.

All belong to members of the Catholic/Anglican Church. I guess it must be the regular trips to Rome or some very regular travel between capitals. One thing that did strike me was all the tags were prominently displayed on carry bags or back packs.

As an engineer I can make WP with Virgin and Qantas most years, but even combining the two programs together 3600 SC is well out of reach.

I was wondering what offer jobs P1's had.
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I work in Industrial Relations.
 
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I turned down a position that probably would have got me P1...

It was a contract role for 12 month's.

Lot of travel and long time away from home.

Parts of the business needed heaps of work and would have been long stays in USA and Europe as well.

The role was connecting all there office via one network so that all offices would be walk in and a staff member can use the printers and get on the internet no problems at all and also so that offices can share large files between themselves in a secure way and also have costs at reasonable levels.
 
Simo said:
I turned down a position that probably would have got me P1...

It was a contract role for 12 month's.

Lot of travel and long time away from home.
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I know it is sacrilege on AFF, but work-life balance is also important (not just flying)... especially if you have family commitments (aka kids).
 
penegal said:
I know it is sacrilege on AFF, but work-life balance is also important (not just flying)... especially if you have family commitments (aka kids).
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12 month's was a bit of issue point as well.

Even though I own my own business I would have been able to do both. But I would have to employee another staff member to do some of what I do.
 
I am in the aero and medical field north of WA mostly and based in Melbourne so u do get a bit of travel domestically but dropped down this year to a normal WP. But envisage more travel on QFi this year hopefully bumping across the line again
 
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It would be possible to get (back to) Plat and possibly P1 for me with my type of job - I'm a Certified Financial Planner in a 3 planner practice in BNE (own business, we all have shareholding). I've been fortunate off the back of a couple of previous corporate deals, to now have clients around Australia - generally visit SYD & MEL quarterly; PER & ADL half yearly and CBR & EMD annually. Visit clients in NTL & CNS on an ad hoc basis (or whereever they move). Previously I flew Flexi everywhere (in previous iteration of business 1987-2007), but the downturn has brought back to discount whY and ocassional Flexi (when prices are good). I qualify QF Gold every year then throw the rest of my flights to re-qualifying VA Plat (and thanks to family pooling when travelling with the family on holidays). I used to have qualification dates in Feb and August, now it's early & late Feb - so generally travel to a destination on 1 carrier and back with the other. Does make me think "which Terminal do I need" when in taxis.

As penegal penned so eloquently:
penegal said:
I know it is sacrilege on AFF, but work-life balance is also important (not just flying)... especially if you have family commitments (aka kids).
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For me, that is sacrosanct. I probably could be Plat or P1, but I wouldn't have a wife and I'd see the kids on weekends if I was lucky.
 
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It would be possible to get (back to) Plat and possibly P1 for me with my type of job - I'm a Certified Financial Planner in a 3 planner practice in BNE (own business, we all have shareholding). I've been fortunate off the back of a couple of previous corporate deals, to now have clients around Australia - generally visit SYD & MEL quarterly; PER & ADL half yearly and CBR & EMD annually. Visit clients in NTL & CNS on an ad hoc basis (or whereever they move). Previously I flew Flexi everywhere (in previous iteration of business 1987-2007), but the downturn has brought back to discount whY and ocassional Flexi (when prices are good)

As penegal penned so eloquently:

For me, that is sacrosanct. I probably could be Plat or P1, but I wouldn't have a wife and I'd see the kids on weekends if I was lucky.
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Back in 2008 just before the GFC was spoken to about a position based in PER but could live in BNE and do the weekly commute to PER or DRW or BME every other week.

I was thinking WP was easy and then the GFC happened and was spoken to about another position based in SYD with no commute and no chance as money was not good.
 
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