Qantas club membership

[belindajane]

I need to renew my QANTAS Club membership and my Corporate Scheme Number is no longer applicable. I have paid $200 a year for my membership and would love to continue it. Can anyone help?

 

[markis10]

I need to renew my QANTAS Club membership and my Corporate Scheme Number is no longer applicable. I have paid $200 a year for my membership and would love to continue it. Can anyone help?

Corporate membership is an option open to Gold Members of AFF:

The Australian Frequent Flyer - Member Benefits

Qantas have advised that the current corporate rate is $400 a year.

 

[Mwenenzi]

Belinda
Click in the link above and here http://www.australianfrequentflyer....es/save-200-qantas-club-membership-10788.html
Send a private message to "support" or "admin"

Questions are better asked in the discussion board forum and not in blog
http://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/forum.php

 

[samh004]

Questions are better asked in the discussion board forum and not in blog
http://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/forum.php

Too many people get confused with the "blog this" link instead of quoting/replying in the thread


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[Mwenenzi]

Too many people get confused with the "blog this" link instead of quoting/replying in the thread

I have made the suggestion here the blog be disabled. On another [car] forum that I post in and that uses the same software as here they did that.

 

[DeKa]

Too many people get confused with the "blog this" link instead of quoting/replying in the thread


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Agree. The number of people who call forums blogs (we're all bloggers, right?) surprises me and I think the 'blog this' button only confuses things more.

 

[samh004]

I have made the suggestion here the blog be disabled. On another [car] forum that I post in and that uses the same software as here they did that.

Same. I do think the blogs here work occasionally, but the button on a post should require maybe a 2-click strategy to deter new users from accidentally using it.


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[support]

I need to renew my QANTAS Club membership and my Corporate Scheme Number is no longer applicable. I have paid $200 a year for my membership and would love to continue it. Can anyone help?

belindajane,

You have a PM with all the details.

 

[earth_99]

I need to renew my QANTAS Club membership and my Corporate Scheme Number is no longer applicable. I have paid $200 a year for my membership and would love to continue it. Can anyone help?

I'm in pretty much the same situation - I have a corporate code still but the price for renewal has gone up 40% in 2 years. I'm not sure that I can continue to be a member at this rate (was previously $200/year and now $280/year). Can anyone advise on alternatives?

belindajane,

You have a PM with all the details.

Could you help me too?

 

[serfty]

Welcome to AFF.

To access corporate membership under Australian Frequent Flyer you need to be a Gold member. Moreover the rate is still $400 per year.

The Australian Frequent Flyer - Member Benefits

 

[mbeder]

Figured I'd post a Qantas Club rant in this thread as it appears to be the most recent QC-related one.

I have been a paid member of QC for the past 10 years - my annual travel is never sufficient to achieve free entry via status, however I've always been prepared to pay for the privilege as I travel enough that having lounge access makes a difference.
Last week I travelled Syd-Bris early morning and had time to spare upon arrival in Brisbane to go into the lounge to check emails, etc before setting out for the day...I was however refused access and was told that I was in my 'arrival' airport and as I was not departing Brisbane on the same day, I would 'mess up the system' if I was allowed in (the CSR scanned my card).
I left the lounge and tweeted my frustration to @QantasAirways while sitting at a cafe in the terminal. The reply via twitter was that 'QC access is available for departing flights only' - In previous years, I have gone into the lounge at my arrival airport when I have had spare time and never been refused - at worst I would have a coffee and a small snack while checking emails, etc during these types of visits which lasted 15-20 minutes.
When returning to Sydney on the following day, I thought I'd try and see if it was a 'Brisbane' only affair and found that I was similarity barred entry.

I acknowledge that that this is very much a 'first-world problem', however is it just me or is this a new rule? Or an old one that is only recently being enforced? Surely as a `paying` customer of a lounge, membership should allow one entry on any day that I fly, irrespective of whether I'm in my departure or arrival airport...any wise advice or thoughts out there?

 

[asg29e]

Figured I'd post a Qantas Club rant in this thread as it appears to be the most recent QC-related one.

I have been a paid member of QC for the past 10 years - my annual travel is never sufficient to achieve free entry via status, however I've always been prepared to pay for the privilege as I travel enough that having lounge access makes a difference.
Last week I travelled Syd-Bris early morning and had time to spare upon arrival in Brisbane to go into the lounge to check emails, etc before setting out for the day...I was however refused access and was told that I was in my 'arrival' airport and as I was not departing Brisbane on the same day, I would 'mess up the system' if I was allowed in (the CSR scanned my card).
I left the lounge and tweeted my frustration to @QantasAirways while sitting at a cafe in the terminal. The reply via twitter was that 'QC access is available for departing flights only' - In previous years, I have gone into the lounge at my arrival airport when I have had spare time and never been refused - at worst I would have a coffee and a small snack while checking emails, etc during these types of visits which lasted 15-20 minutes.
When returning to Sydney on the following day, I thought I'd try and see if it was a 'Brisbane' only affair and found that I was similarity barred entry.

I acknowledge that that this is very much a 'first-world problem', however is it just me or is this a new rule? Or an old one that is only recently being enforced? Surely as a `paying` customer of a lounge, membership should allow one entry on any day that I fly, irrespective of whether I'm in my departure or arrival airport...any wise advice or thoughts out there?

It is a long standing rule. Probably you've got away with it up until now by just waving your card or boarding pass without them being closely scrutinised, but that is just good luck I think. To get arrival lounge access you need to have Platinum or higher status.

As to whether you deserve to have arrival lounge access, I guess QF have done their sums and priced the product to fit the rules they have made. We can vote with our feet if we don't perceive enough value.

 

[mannej]

QP hasn't had arrivals access for the last 5 years or so (anytime before then is before my time so I can't provide an answer), so any time they have let you in on arrivals has been above and beyond to what you are entitled to.

 

[Pushka]

It's a rule that's been around for a few years now.

 

[samh004]

Since I joined the QP in 2009 it's only ever been a departure benefit, arrivals access as mentioned is for Platinum and above, and I use it frequently.

 

[serfty]

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I acknowledge that that this is very much a 'first-world problem', however is it just me or is this a new rule? Or an old one that is only recently being enforced? Surely as a `paying` customer of a lounge, membership should allow one entry on any day that I fly, irrespective of whether I'm in my departure or arrival airport...any wise advice or thoughts out there?

It's an old one for which enforcement varies.

Maybe there's been a push on this recently.

FWIW, back when I joined in 1994 it was 'same day' access.

This was tightened up ~14-16 years ago IIRC.

 

[mbeder]

Thanks for the clarification folks - sounds like I have been very lucky in the past!