Just got Life Time Silver - now what?

[fr.stephen]

Well the last month has been a wild ride.
Membership year ends 31 May. I've been Gold since 2019, and managed to hang on to it until now thanks to status support and DSC offers.
My last membership year I JUST managed the 250SCs to avoid plummeting all the way back to Bronze (how embarrassing!), and that was with making use of DSC offers.
So dropped back to Silver (with Qantas Club) on 1 June.
But have just done a trip to Guam, SYD-BNE-NRT-GUM and back, in J, and with the DSC offer I now have 800SCs - so I'm back to Gold.
To cap it off, have just ticked over 7000 lifetime SCs, so I am now Lifetime Silver.
I don't think that is too bad, given I didn't really start doing any sort of regular flying until 2011, and only ever paid for J twice, just making use of DSC offers whenever I can. And of course there was a couple of years where no-one flew anywhere.
I've booked all of my upcoming travel for 2025 during the last DSC offer (except for a sale to NLK in J), and if I've done my sums properly, I'll hit Platinum for the first time ever.
So now what? Well Qantas knows very well how this works. I keep giving them money. They give me toasted ham and cheese sandwiches in the lounge. Eventually I'll get Lifetime Gold so I can never have to worry about access to those toasties again. Sounds fair to me.

 

[DejaBrew]

Congratulations on hitting LTS and simultaneously achieving 50% of LTG, but more impressively, 9.333% of LTP!!

 

[Quickstatus]

Time to fly another airline. Seriously

 

[exceladdict]

Not too far off lts myself, but travel has substantially cut back so imagine I will slide from wp down to LTS over the next few years too.

 

[fr.stephen]

Congratulations on hitting LTS and simultaneously achieving 50% of LTG, but more impressively, 9.333% of LTP!!

Thank you - I think my chances of LTP are rather non-existent!

 

[fr.stephen]

Time to fly another airline. Seriously

Well, J on JAL was very good. My first time on JAL. They were so apologetic that we left 15 minutes late. And the service was excellent.

QF J was downright embarrassing. It is so embarrassing you can tell the crew is embarrassed - after being moved from a broken chair, and then with the new one having a broken USB port, the FA couldn't really say anything except "these planes are getting really old" - yep.

And then J from BNE to SYD, it's only redeeming feature is that the service in Y has become so non-existent that some people will still pay for J just so they get something.
I remember the days (not all that long ago) where sitting in Y you would enviously look at those "rich people" in J with a FA saying "sir can I take your coat, would you like some champagne" - now you're lucky to get a water.

 

[Quickstatus]

J on JAL was very good.

There are others here who will agree with you. Paging @drron to the Batphone

 

[BrianQQ]

I remember the days (not all that long ago) where sitting in Y you would enviously look at those "rich people" in J with a FA saying "sir can I take your coat, would you like some champagne" - now you're lucky to get a water.

I was on J from SYD-MEL once this year and I definitely received some sort of service (asked for champagne), so might just be a FA thing?

 

[Sabot]

Well the last month has been a wild ride.
Membership year ends 31 May. I've been Gold since 2019, and managed to hang on to it until now thanks to status support and DSC offers.
My last membership year I JUST managed the 250SCs to avoid plummeting all the way back to Bronze (how embarrassing!), and that was with making use of DSC offers.
So dropped back to Silver (with Qantas Club) on 1 June.
But have just done a trip to Guam, SYD-BNE-NRT-GUM and back, in J, and with the DSC offer I now have 800SCs - so I'm back to Gold.
To cap it off, have just ticked over 7000 lifetime SCs, so I am now Lifetime Silver.
I don't think that is too bad, given I didn't really start doing any sort of regular flying until 2011, and only ever paid for J twice, just making use of DSC offers whenever I can. And of course there was a couple of years where no-one flew anywhere.
I've booked all of my upcoming travel for 2025 during the last DSC offer (except for a sale to NLK in J), and if I've done my sums properly, I'll hit Platinum for the first time ever.
So now what? Well Qantas knows very well how this works. I keep giving them money. They give me toasted ham and cheese sandwiches in the lounge. Eventually I'll get Lifetime Gold so I can never have to worry about access to those toasties again. Sounds fair to me.

The correct response for obtaining any sort of LT Qantas status is to fly any and all airlines BUT Qantas judging by some of the people on this forum.

 

[Aeryn]

The correct response for obtaining any sort of LT Qantas status is to fly any and all airlines BUT Qantas judging by some of the people on this forum.

Only once LTG is reached; and domestically there is really no better option; Virgin doesnt have nearly the network and far fewer lounges.

 

[Steady]

I was on J from SYD-MEL once this year and I definitely received some sort of service (asked for champagne), so might just be a FA thing?

Maybe lip service…. if you got think you were served Champagne on a QF flight between SYD and MEL…..

 

[BrianQQ]

Maybe lip service…. if you got think you were served Champagne on a QF flight between SYD and MEL…..

Some sort of alcohol was offered. Granted it was earlier this year and as a youngun I only like spirits so just asked for a G&T instead.