Qantas Platinum One experiences?

[aus_flyer]

To all the newly-minted Platinum One frequent flyers out there... I'm curious to hear... what's been your experience so far?

Anything different?

Free upgrades?

... or all hype?

 

[kermatu]

What's the SC earn of the P1's who are getting Christmas presents? I've been P1 since it started and vaguely remember getting some wine the first year, certainly nothing this year or last. My last full membership year I racked up about 5400 SC, whilst this calendar year I'm at about 5000. Curious to see where the bar is set by Qantas.

My first year I barely reached 1000 from memory. While I am only a few months into this year (my second) I'm around 500 and reckon I'll end up around 1200 again - in part as I am increasingly doing long haul J flights on other carriers. QF not price competitive and if anything my P1 experiences have been quite a letdown so almost directing me away from Qantas.

but for you over 5000 and not a top tier P1 is extraordinary.

 

[RichardMEL]

Another lucky one who had a surprise visit from a courier on Saturday morning. Not so much surprise as in a QF gift as I was kind of expecting something thanks to reports here(but as I have said elsewhere if I didn't I owuldn't have cried into my milk) - the surprise was a delivery on a Saturday morning.

Anyway the Krug 2000 vintage here too with the nice letter on the nice paper stock etc. Pretty nice effort from QF IMHO and given what they retail for in the QF epiQure store, a very decent gift indeed (compared to the books).

re SC earn I've earned less over the past 3 years of P1. I started around the 4000 mark, last year 3700 ish, and this year got in with 3630. Currently 3 months into membership year on 740, but that will go to 1460 by Dec 31. Still, I'm not certain I'll get clost to 3600 this next year. We'll see.

Again, thank you QF.

 

[Per_Travels]

My first year I barely reached 1000 from memory. While I am only a few months into this year (my second) I'm around 500 and reckon I'll end up around 1200 again - in part as I am increasingly doing long haul J flights on other carriers. QF not price competitive and if anything my P1 experiences have been quite a letdown so almost directing me away from Qantas.

but for you over 5000 and not a top tier P1 is extraordinary.

Sounds like I've been going about this the wrong way - I'll try dropping my spend with QF and see if that makes a difference

 

[Happy Trails]

Sounds like I've been going about this the wrong way - I'll try dropping my spend with QF and see if that makes a difference

Yes, treat them mean, keep them keen.

 

[danny09]

Yes, treat them mean, keep them keen.

I will also find out how they treat you, am burning a whole lot of points this year so will not be maintaining P1 this year as It's really not worth chasing, but to be completely honest I don't think anyone will notice anyways.

 

[Per_Travels]

but to be completely honest I don't think anyone will notice anyways.

Agreed - but it might make me feel better. That or I'll just have to go down to my local supermarket, throw myself on the ground and have the sort of tantrum I used to when I was two.

 

[Per_Travels]

Yes, treat them mean, keep them keen.

Yeah - not that I've ever had much success with that strategy!

 

[RichardMEL]

Yeah - not that I've ever had much success with that strategy!

It's worked fine for a number of my ex-gf's !

 

[kermatu]

Sounds like I've been going about this the wrong way - I'll try dropping my spend with QF and see if that makes a difference

Bear in mind I have had zero upgrades and zero invitations to events and no proactive monitoring of flights (best I can tell anyway). Would have been much more cost-effective to just buy the good champagne

 

[Per_Travels]

Bear in mind I have had zero upgrades and zero invitations to events and no proactive monitoring of flights (best I can tell anyway). Would have been much more cost-effective to just buy the good champagne

I know, I shouldn't complain really - I've had a couple of J to F op-ups on SYD - DFW this year (plus the CSM gave me a bottle of Diana Madelaine after seeing how much I was enjoying it)

 

[Canny man]

A beautifully packed bottle of Krug 2000 arrived by courier today. Krug is a treat I only rarely manage to enjoy, but is my favourite champagne. In fact I made a pilgrimage to Krug's cellars for a private tasting this time last year so there couldn't be a better gift in my opinion. Thank you Qantas!!!!

 

[pjm99au]

A beautifully packed bottle of Krug 2000 arrived by courier today. Krug is a treat I only rarely manage to enjoy, but is my favourite champagne. In fact I made a pilgrimage to Krug's cellars for a private tasting this time last year so there couldn't be a better gift in my opinion. Thank you Qantas!!!!

I still live in hope

 

[kermatu]

For the first time in a while I had a greeting / chat with a CSM who clearly knew I was P1. Without being over the top, but he was across my itinerary (an onward international connection - we were stuck at the gate for a while in Melbourne) and was friendly. I think his name was Darren - I'm shocking at names. Nothing special offered (or desired, was on my way to the F lounge!). But good to know that occasionally iPads and manifests work. Flight was in Y and a requested shadow held.

Still no upgrades, despite a few opportunities. Other shadows recently requested were not placed (according to expert flyer anyway).

And on a recent J trans-Tasman flight, WPs around me were all identified and greeted (and I heard several references to drinks for Row 4 coming from J) - I had no particular recognition. I was in J so completely irrelevant in terms of service - flight and service great in every respect. I'd ask why if it didn't make me sound like a total tool.

 

[Canny man]

A quick Google found this

Krug Vintage Brut Champagne 2000
$514.39; 12% alcohol; cork; 97++ points

This could be the best drink of my life. Two weeks ago, it invaded me more than seduced. Just took over. Still it haunts me, freshly, as if the King had just now walked out of the room. Having pushed aside the long-stored mental records of many other magnificent wines, it sits glowering in my memory like a heavenly cloud. And not only the gastronomic part of my brain’s library: this liquor took over many other sections, spilling into the history shelves, the music sector, the colour charts. It dumbfounded the language files completely. I couldn’t talk.

When it was poured, its miasma was not content to merely spill across the table as other vinous rarities sometimes do. This thing occupied the building.

After half an hour of marveling at its bouquet, I murmured “It doesn’t even smell like wine.”

You know how Tasmanian Leatherwood honey has a dark perfumed richness about it, setting it well aside from all other honey? You should think like that of this wine: it immediately brought Leatherwood to mind, but it doesn’t really smell like that. It smells like a master has poached ripe Passe-Crassane pears in it and served them warm on a toasty brioche floating in perfect sabayon. This Normandy pear is a delicious, granular cross of a pear and a quince. So the bouquet is deeper, more autumnal and complex than simple crunchy pear. Then there’s that basement of alluring, mysterious spice: some scorched Curaçao orange peel, for example. Maybe mace, maybe nutmeg, maybe cinnamon, maybe allspice, maybe roast stringy bark. Which brings me back to the Leatherwood. And we already know it doesn’t really smell like that: all these insinuations and innuendos have been melted and forged into the one perfectly smooth golden ingot.

When eventually I remembered it was actually a drink I had in my hand, and I took a draught, I lost my voice again. It sure does taste like wine, but wine crossed with cinder toffee and burnished gold. It rang my receptors like a carillon.

Everything else is gonna be a letdown

 

[Per_Travels]

I still live in hope

As do I (although fading)!

 

[pagingjoan]

A beautifully packed bottle of Krug 2000 arrived by courier today. Krug is a treat I only rarely manage to enjoy, but is my favourite champagne. In fact I made a pilgrimage to Krug's cellars for a private tasting this time last year so there couldn't be a better gift in my opinion. Thank you Qantas!!!!

And for me, too.
(After a few misadventures with the courier service over the past days.
Where are you located, Canny man?)

 

[Canny man]

And for me, too.
(After a few misadventures with the courier service over the past days.
Where are you located, Canny man?)

Perth, Airport side of town

 

[pagingjoan]

Perth, Airport side of town

Then it was not the same less-than-competent courier service!
Enjoy the indulgence.

 

[pagingjoan]

Actually, I think that the Vic courier service did have a national presence.
Do you recal the courier?

 

[nauta1]

I received the Krug last night, very much appreciated, thanks P1 team.