Organised Boycott of QF the Last Chance?

[medhead]

For those say it will only hurt the staff, is that the same for made in Bangladesh clothes. I should keep buying the cheapest clothes so I support those in poverty be exploited by big name stores?

Matt

As someone in the "hurt the staff" camp. I'm not sure how your analogy works. Are Qantas staff children employed at slaves rates? Are the aircraft made by children working 18 hours a day?

But to address the clothes question. I rarely buy new clothes and don't really check these things. But SWMBO works in retail for an Australia company that does not use slave labour in making their clothing. She buys the majority of her clothes from her employer and is very careful to check the manufacturing source before purchasing clothing. It sounds like her employer's position gives them a competitive advantage for a large number of customers. But then the shops of a massive retail chain, that did buy clothes from a particular ex-factory in Bangladesh, seem to keep appearing. Clearly some people only consider price.

 

[harvyk]

Wouldn't make a blip. For them to take note, you would need to include some CL's in the boycott, and I doubt any of them would be willing to put their CL membership in jeopardy, plus they most likely have a phone number which us mere-mortals could only guess which they can use to arrange / complain about things in such a way that QF would take note beyond marking entries in a tally.

Whilst the collective AFF is large enough that the airlines watch here, the number of people who you could reasonably get involved in a boycott wouldn't even make a blimp on the P&L sheets. As others have said, it's similar to the service station boycotts. Too few people involved, and people ultimately still need to get from A to B.

 

[Mal]

I have previously stated my opinion, why not repeat!
I am Life Time Gold with Qantas, and currently am Platinum. Because their planned changes are a serious slap in my face, I am abandoning them and moving to BA.

As soon as my latest flight credits, I am OWS (BA Silver equiv to QF Gold), and BA Gold (OWE / QF PLat) is within my reach.

I have not flown Qantas recently, and the last two flights (late last year) ex UK were average at most.

I don't need to boycott them really, they have chosen to ostracise me.

 

[Awesom Andy]

Looking at the market share, I think quite a few have already started a "boycott".

 

[casanovawa]

While talking about a boycott only hurting staff, I'm sure AJ would probably say that staff have been and continue to be quite a bit of QF's problem and are hurting themselves....

 

[Traveller1955]

bravo but we are fast approaching mid year and I am none the wiser how to keep WP?

 

[serfty]

bravo but we are fast approaching mid year and I am none the wiser how to keep WP?

Despite the new 750 mile barrier, the USA is still your friend ... ironically with the more limited routing rules being introduced the longer segments seem likely to be far more the norm in any case.

e.g. LAX-ORD in first will still be 120 SC's.

 

[boomy]

Boycott is not a good idea, too extreme.
Solutions can be achieved only through constructive dialog.
If all the people who are not happy with the recent QF changes and the decline in service will actually send feedback to QF on top of posting it on AFF and other sites, maybe someone will listen. It will probably not happen immediately but if enough people will do that and the letters will keep piling up, I believe QF management will have to address the issue eventually.
It's actually very easy to do that. Anyone who post a relevant complaint about QF on Facebook or AFF or any other site should copy-paste it and also fill a form on QF site.

 

[eastwest101]

Boycott is not a good idea, too extreme.
Solutions can be achieved only through constructive dialog.
If all the people who are not happy with the recent QF changes and the decline in service will actually send feedback to QF on top of posting it on AFF and other sites, maybe someone will listen. It will probably not happen immediately but if enough people will do that and the letters will keep piling up, I believe QF management will have to address the issue eventually.
It's actually very easy to do that. Anyone who post a relevant complaint about QF on Facebook or AFF or any other site should copy-paste it and also fill a form on QF site.

Good point - I have sent this feed back form to here:

Customer Care Feedback Form

Dear Sir/Madam, Just a short note to say that as an ex-loyal Qantas customer I have ceased earning in the QFF program and will be directing my credit card spend and frequent flyer earn to other airlines. This is in response to poor management decisions resulting in cutbacks to service and "Jetstarization" of Qantas over the years. Qantas is now a Sydney-centric airline that not only has high fares and poor products, but with recent changes to the 'simpler and fairer' earn rates, their inability to work with OneWorld alliance partners, and bad value QFF point redemptions coupled with record high fuel fines mean that I have had to reasses my flying patterns and loyalty memberships. I also see evidence of poor planning, fleet utilization and emphasis on short term superfluous PR frolics over the basics of running a competitive airline. The airline frequently resorts to disingenuous spin or vague repetitious promises in answer to criticism. Yours sincerely, an ex QFF Gold now going to Bronze.

I know that I am small fry but maybe if QF got a couple of tens of thousands of things like this, they may at least begin to think about questioning the direction that they are going in.

 

[RAM]

What is also worthwhile is sending letters to SMH, Telegraph. The Age, The Australian. Even the AFR along the lines that Q seems determined to drive away the most profitable (and loyal) passengers - why? Even if the few people posting to this thread were to email to the newspapers this week (co-ordinated) that would generate Board-level concerns as they do not want publicity about the reality.

Public domain they fear.

 

[mannej]

What is also worthwhile is sending letters to SMH, Telegraph. The Age, The Australian. Even the AFR along the lines that Q seems determined to drive away the most profitable (and loyal) passengers - why? Even if the few people posting to this thread were to email to the newspapers this week (co-ordinated) that would generate Board-level concerns as they do not want publicity about the reality.

Public domain they fear.

They seem more interested in posting letters about Lurpak or those valuable members who have not had activity for 18 months...