Question for fellow P1's How have you been treated on EK flights? any different to QF? How has your op up success rate been on EK metal? (with or without QF flight nos/ticketed)?
I think this is a bit of nonsense, firstly, DSC, if a person managed to get P1 thanks to DSC are they really flying all that much to "absorb" your benefits?
This isn't the Melbourne club or MENSA, it's a extra level of service, which the SST certainly is. Is it worthwhile spending extra to go for? Nope, but for those of us who happened to get it anyway then great.
At the family Christmas BBQ I was speaking to my brother in law who is a Dom CSM, he said there is about 3500 p1s give or take. So is a few hundred (at most) that have got P1 due to DSC going to make any difference?
Has P1 been a success? It all comes down to expectations, was the QF marketing setting expectations of a "club" of the best FF'ers or did they set the expectation of "here is some better service"?
Well I went to the Test today and enjoyed it. Whilst not the best day of cricket I did enjoy the atmosphere and being at a landmark Melbourne event.
On either side of my friend and I, we each had a double shadow.
I stayed until the end to savour it all. I think the people behind me were guests of a company as well noting their tickets had the same payment code as mine. (They were in their pockets with the pricing bit pointing upwards and outwards).
The seats were quite good being in the Olympic stand just to the right of the Members.
Were you in J?
Funnily enough I was in Row J and my favorite seat, 12.
So for those who 'happened' upon P1 at 1800SC vs those who attained it at the published level of 3600 I think that it isn't sustainable or positive. I mean when you've got just under 10% of your program hitting your status at only 400SCs over vanilla P1, what 'exclusive' benefits are worth offering? A simulator ride, a bottle of red and meeting a pop star?
That's a real shame you feel this way (for you and for QFF). The P1 welcome pack does paint a picture of P1 being the bees knees... and Alan Joyce has referred to P1's as the "cream of the cream". I've only been in business for 15 years and I could be wrong here, but unless you want to fire a customer - you generally treat your top customers the better than the rest. I feel your pain with upgrades. I've not had any free upgrades as a P1, and I've been P1 since it started 25 months ago with probably around 150+ flights.And I should say it is the one and only time I have ever received an upgrade - dozens of QF flights, including about 15 since becoming P1. My overall experience of 6 months as P1 is very underwhelming:
Has P1 been a success? It all comes down to expectations, was the QF marketing setting expectations of a "club" of the best FF'ers or did they set the expectation of "here is some better service"?
On the plus side:
-- All published benefits have been realised.
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For the first time recently I read here that there was a benefit of unlimited checked luggage on dom flights. Is that true? Are there any other benefits that aren't publicised?
Never been something I have tested.
For the first time recently I read here that there was a benefit of unlimited checked luggage on dom flights. Is that true? Are there any other benefits that aren't publicised?
I'd imagine this is perhaps true for CL, but not P1. Where did you read this?
I'd imagine this is perhaps true for CL, but not P1. Where did you read this?
I certainly hope that P1 is capped, for fear that it will go the way of CL in some respects. The CL service for a 'vanilla CL' is at Platinum level now save for access to the lounge. As a P1CL I have been told on many occasions that they now value P1 over vanilla level 1 CLs (that's low level company offered status, public servants, MPs without portfolio etc) since it has become so diluted. I would invalidate DSCs for Platinum One gain, they have a chance to create a really fantastic club at that level.
It can be capped quite easily.
Stop the silly double SCs offers. If you cant earn Platinum One in your own right then you are not worthy of that status. And what happens is the Platinum One numbers saturate and the service personnel are not increased to cope with the extra demand so you have declining levels of service.
And no I am not having a go at the people taking advantage of these offers. Just at the people offering them.
Do not worry. The P1 service level is at a WP level now, so it cannot reduce any further (except QF appear to want to reduce the gap between WP and SG with the increased status bonus to 75%, combined J and F lounges like SIN etc). I would call the whole P1 experiment a dismal failure and I would recommend it be abolished. Get rid off all DSC promotions, introduce a minimum 50% QF SC earn requirement for WP and then increase the general service level to all WP would be a far better solution for all.
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