Qantas metal (planes) flying out of Perth

[clarksnow1]

I have a bone to pick with Qantas after their great partnership with Emirates. The amount of Qantas metal (planes ) flying from perth internationally has reduced to basically the Perth Singapore route and the timing of those flights doesn't suit business professionals with a mid morning flight departure from Perth. I've flown left Perth on International flights 27 times last year and have built up 3560 Status points since April 13. That doesn't include the many flights I had with Singapore airlines under the Star Alliance. Under many other threads, the number of international Qantas metal flights from Perth has diminished exponentially since the Emirates partnership. Realistically Qantas is focussing on the east coast of Australia.

As my only option is to choose other One World airlines like Cathay and Malaysian and after much argument from my corporate travel agent with Qantas who basically say, Why doesn't Mr xx_XX fly from Perth to Melbourne to Hong Kong? Why would I add another 6 -8 hrs to my Journey because Qantas have shutdown Perth - Hong Kong direct flights. Anyway I'm about to hit Platinum One Status in the next 2 weeks and considering whether I fly Emirates or Cathay to New York/ London, as Qantas will not give me Platinum One status because I haven't booked enough flights with Qantas. Not my fault if Qantas cancel virtually all International Qantas metal planes going out of Perth due to an east coast centric policy.

I feel that Perth based loyal Qantas customers should be given some dispensation re the need for flying Qantas branded flights or original bookings through Qantas regarding their status points. If Qantas still flew to Hong Kong then I would have flown 11 times with them last year and if they had flights to Singapore which were suited to business travel times, e.g.: evenings, then I may not have flown Singapore Airlines 9 times last year.

By end of March based on current Journey's planned I'll reach about 4300 status credits for my 12 month eligibility period.

Come on Qantas give serious travellers a fair go with respect to status credits and eligibility. 1103451

 

[mannej]

Sorry, but the decay of flights out of PER were well in decay before the EK partnership started.

It is a bit hard to call a loss of 2 flights exponential. I don't agree with the dispensation as you still have the domestic ops out of PER. Unfortunately that is part of the game.

However, you are preaching to the converted regarding QF and PER intl.

 

[Per_Travels]

I have a lot of sympathy for the OP - I to am a Perth based WP1 and will hit around 5500 SCs this year (slightly up from last year). However I'll likely miss the 2700 requal because there's both fewer QF flights and it's simply getting harder and harder to find reasonably priced QF flights from Perth. For example I'm flying to London in a couple of weeks and would have to pay an extra $1000 or so for the QF flight number on EK metal.


The domestic options out of Perth aren't really much use to me (my main use for them is to connect to US bound flights).

 

[Danger]

Perth actually lost 10 services a week - equivalent to greater than 50% of its overall QF international services - in April 2013. The re-timing of the only remaining PER-SIN service to be just 10 minutes apart from a Jetstar service, as another member noted in the dedicated thread, is very concerning.

Dispensation or eligibility cuts for Perth-based flyers wouldn't be fair. While we've got it bad, Adelaide and Hobart flyers have it worse. Qantas is really the Spirit of Eastern Australia.

 

[russianrob]

Qantas International does not give a toss about Perth.
One flight to Singapore does not constitute a service. Try and upgrade on your way to Europe? can't do it since it's Emirates metal. Try and buy an ASA? tough luck.
JStar doesn't even offer PE since they are Asian planes out of Perth.

and no, I don't work for QF. The other roo came along later

 

[mannej]

Qantas International does not give a toss about Perth.
One flight to Singapore does not constitute a service. Try and upgrade on your way to Europe? can't do it since it's Emirates metal. Try and buy an ASA? tough luck.
JStar doesn't even offer PE since they are Asian planes out of Perth.

and no, I don't work for QF. The other roo came along later

JQ don't offer PE out of PER due to the fact it only runs the 320's in and out. I have seen both 9V and VH aircraft complete international runs out of PER for JQ.