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I have posted this somewhere before, but I feel it may be useful here regarding upgrade benefits:
With Avianca I am at their "Diamond" level which is their P1 equivalent. Their treatment is exactlky the opposite of Qantas - the benefits are published, easy to understand, and IMHO a perfect balance between airline and pax needs.
Avianca sell their Y fares in 4 basic buckets: I will call them "Super Sale", "Saver", "Standard", and "Flex". Obviously this in order from cheap to expensive.
An important central concept here is that the two lower fare buckets, Super Sale and Saver, are NOT able for upgrades. IE if you buy the cheap ticket you do so knowing you will not be upgraded.
If you spend more on the higher fare buckets you enter their two-part lottery. The first comes into effect days prior to the flight. This is where they look at loads and if they are light they give you at LEAST two days in advance a confirmed upgrade to J. In my experience this probably happens at least about 1 out of 10 flights, and that is with no effort on my part seeking out lightly loaded travel times.....
The second part is the upgrades at the airport. Here they will upgrade using any space-available seats in J. This is done in priority order of status and fare bucket. I buy my tickets at the "Standard" fare bucket usually, and enjoy about an 80% success rate at these upgrades.
So essentially they encourage higher spend on base tickets, but reward this with a very high success rate at upgrades.
Oh, and also they give me 4 upgrade certificates per year which I can use at time of booking to buy any ticket at any Y price, and immediately get a confirmed upgrade to J, on any route (includes international, such as Colombia-Spain, etc etc.
I love their system, it is clear, it works for both airline and me, and when I do not get an upgrade I understand exactly why I did not get one.
We should all give feedback to QF along these lines I reckon. Recommend the program offer a clearer, defined list of benefits. Suggest this type of system should be one. (4 guaranteed upgrade certificates on any Y flight is a wonderful benefit).
Don't mean it to be overly negative or narky, but the only (slim) chance we'd have of QF improving the program is if current P1s tell them we don't see it being of value.
If anything, I actually view it negatively, with features such as the 75k bonus points being so ridiculous to achieve (effectively WP-qualification amount of additional flying on QF metal and 'base' SCs only) for so few points just a petty joke.
The alternative is to try another FF program.
If say 70 per cent of travel is domestic or trans-Tasman travel, is there a better option? I am building status with VA and SQ - but it won't ever be to the same level as my QF spend. An alternative OW program?
Not the right forum and I know you and others have provided advice elsewhere, but would be keen to see more thoughts.
My year ticks over in a fortnight (so my actual P1 year starts on 1 October). Finding it hard to work out if my 2 comp passes will only be valid until 30 September this year, or 30 Sept 2018. If the former, they'll be useless.
For the initial new benefit announcement of 13 September 2017, all current Platinum One members will receive the digital invitations within 72 hours from 13 September 2017.
Members will then receive the invitations within 5 business days of reaching Platinum One status and within the first 72 hours of your new membership year if you retain Platinum One.
It seems you'll get another 2 in Oct from the T&C:
(which would make sense):
So, anyone who has P1 now gets them.
Then, if one requalifies for the new membership year, they get them
But I won't re-qualify as such, I have only qualified. (I am in the bonus period I guess seeing as I qualified P1 back in December or January - only a few months in).
Anyway, I will see what comes and ask the P1 team if it is unclear. If I only have a fortnight to use and don't receive two more I will try and make a case for some generosity....
Yeah, so you should get the 2 in Oct.. because you have requalified for the next membership year (back in December.. gee great effort in 2-3 months of travel yikes! ) so I would say yes, you will. i can't see any rwason why not.
It would be interesting to see your current (ie: new ones) what the expiration date is.. they may just be generous and give a year.. if they don't it's almost certain that more will come in Oct.
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.... the dedicated thread for this.....
The rabble is everywhere even hereDamn, I can't not be tempted to mix with the rabble and go and peek at that thread now
Edit: reading more and checking out the system, these passes are not pieces of physical paper - they have a new section in the QFF site where you log in to manage your passes - to "gift" these passes you electronically (via the site) transfer them to a particular person. They have to be a member of QFF to do this.