My partner has now received the email from Olivier. I note that I have not, despite our FF numbers having a difference of exactly 1 and mine is numerically first. But I guess that is neither here nor there as I had already read what the changes to the program are.
Very interesting to note in the email that the 1M increase to award seat availability brings the total number of seats to 5M.
What I don’t understand is Qantas published in FY18, that 5.2M awards were redeemed.
Qantas Data Book 2018
Surely 5.2M+1M = 6.2M seats available. But somehow we are being fed 5.2M+1M = 5M. It appears that not only aren’t we, as Frequent Flyers, getting 1M more seats availability, we are actually losing 200,000 seats that were previously available in FY18. But because most people wouldn’t have the faintest idea how many seats were available to begin with and that 1M sounds like a lot, we all think losing 1.2M award seats is a good thing. The power of PR is amazing.