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Offer has been changed. Does now count towards lifetime status.
Color me astonished but very pleased at this reversal.

Thank you Princess FionaView attachment 466407
Offer has been changed. Does now count towards lifetime status.
Color me astonished but very pleased at this reversal.
Thank you Matt, youâre always helpfulWe got in touch with Qantas regarding the lifetime status credits issue. This is the statement they gave us regarding the reversal of this decision:
It doesn't look like they'll be changing their stance though on the status credits from the "thank you" gift not counting towards lifetime status.
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Qantas Double Status Credits Count Towards Lifetime Tiers Again
Qantas has reversed its unpopular decision not to let double status credits count towards lifetime status after a swift backlash from the frequent flyer community.www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au
Loyalty bonus or green tier would take care of that if achievable for youI needed 683 sc to get LTG., now because of this U-turn Iâve just booked and will pick up 640, any suggestions for the other 43 greatly appreciated.
Your nearest airport?I needed 683 sc to get LTG., now because of this U-turn Iâve just booked and will pick up 640, any suggestions for the other 43 greatly appreciated.
Note that DSC donât count to the bonus you get for each of the first 4 lots of 500 SC earnt each membership year. Only standard status credits count towards that. You can check in the app or on the website how far away you are from the next bonus. If 320 or less SC away and the flying you booked is in this membership year then great!Loyalty bonus or green tier would take care of that if achievable for you
Melbourne and I had forgotten about the annual 50sc loyalty bonusoff topic
Your nearest airport?
You will be getting a loyalty SC gift bonus by 30 Sept at the latest.
And the normal 50SC or points for every 500SC (subject to t&c's) This is changing
Great thanks for thatNote that DSC donât count to the bonus you get for each of the first 4 lots of 500 SC earnt each membership year. Only standard status credits count towards that. You can check in the app or on the website how far away you are from the next bonus. If 320 or less SC away and the flying you booked is in this membership year then great!
So I took the plunge, and booked CBR-BNR-MNL return, for travel that I needed to do anyway, and it should net 640 SCs for discount business.Around halfway through the T&Cs it says "All bookings must be new to be eligible."
This is more for the DSC/double points thread, than a loyalty bonus query...
The results show those events havenât been challenging at all. QF is as strong as ever.
It occurred to me that a loyalty bonus based around the number of domestic and international qf sectors flown may have been fairer in numerical terms and truely linked to loyalty in flying qf
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What a joke they are cutting the double bonus status credit from counting towards life time status. I was banking on this promotions to get me to life time gold.What content has changed?
They're reversed this decision.What a joke they are cutting the double bonus status credit from counting towards life time status. I was banking on this promotions to get me to life time gold.
Itâs wrong qantas. You should be looking after your customers and keep in the bonus stays credits toward life time status
I've also put something along these lines into every feedback form I have had from QFF about the program, and what they might do better. Hoping that one day they might pay attention to it!
Wooo that s insine. You are like: "shut up and take my money" and they cant even do that. Hopeless Qantas./rant/
Even in Iceland (where I am having a great time at the moment) I heard about the surprise DSC offer so decided to book the flights to South Africa for Seat Sonâs wedding next year. Stuffed around for ages using the user unfriendly multi city tool to book CBR-SYD-JNB-CPT-VFA-JNB-SYD-CBR, all in business except the inevitable dash-8 connections to/from SYD. Got a price of $17,387 for two - yikes thatâs a lot of money, but I have been watching these fares for a while, and even on the latest sale the best price was just u der $17k.
Put in all the details, moved to the payment page and it errored out.
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Tried again, same result. Despite the time zone difference, spoke to Seat Friend who will be attending the wedding and sheâd had the same experience- and was charged twice for her failed bookings. So I bit the bullet and called QF to get it sorted out. Hard to do on a data only SIM but thanks to Mr Seat 0Aâs technology smarts I had a VOIP app I could use.
End result, after nearly 3 hours on the phone and speaking to 4 people, no booking. Initially South Africa, handed off to Hobart, then back to South Africa resolutions team, and finally South Africa Resolutions supervisor. All actually useless. Including Hobart.
Along the way, I got the following gems:
* âthere are no flights between SYD and CBR on 14 April 2026. Oh not even on 15 April. The earliest connection (to the arrival from JNB on 14 April at 1445) you can make will be 16 April.â I call total bs on that one.
* âok Iâve put those flights in. The total will be $22,586 for 2 people.â â well the web site said it would be $17k oddâ. âOh could you talk me through that so I can see what it shows? Oh look at that, it shows $17k odd. Well I can get approval to honour the web site price.â I should jolly well think so.
* can I have the name of the other passenger please?â âSure, itâs Mr Seat 0A and his FF # is âŚ.â âWhy are you giving me his number? Do you want the flight booked under your number or his?â âWell I want both numbers on the booking so we both get the Double Status Credits for these flightsâ âI have never heard of that.â OMFG.
* âit wonât allow a connection to CBR after this flight.â By now I was so worn down I said, just leave off the connection thinking Iâd get a reward seat, but the price then jumped from $17k odd by over $500 - to take one less flight, which they could not explain
* âoh looks like I canât book you on the code share JNB-CPT because itâs on a different airline, not QFâ - kind of thought thatâs what a code share was.
So as the rest of my travel group had been inside enjoying the Sky Lagoon for this whole time, I left it at that - and they incredulously said âbut donât you want us to make a booking for you?â Come on QF, what the actual? I want to drop $17k+change on you right now and you cannot manage to do it?
After a bit of a relax, I came back to hotel and tried again. The flights I wanted had now gone up to over $20k - and yes I cleared cache, changed browser and used a VPN. To say I was furious understates my level of sheer aggro towards QF at this point. So I recalculated the need for SC for Mr Seat 0A and me, and decided to blow some of my stash of points on Classic Plus Awards ~ 1.1 million points and $1900 got me CBR-JNB return for us both, and I booked the connections direct with Airlink for ~$2,500 thus yielding a saving of somewhere between $13-16k. Maybe itâs toaster territory, but I just could not face calling them about it any more. /rant/