Don’t bother with p1 it gives no better service than gold. I’ve been p1 for quite sometime and lifetime gold and half way to lifetime platinum before Covid and the experience was very good. Post Covid it’s rubbish. Cannot get upgraded with points, seats next to me not blocked even though gold members were having their seats blocked, which I don’t understand at all, these on international flights. I’m back flying internationally again every 2 weeks again unfortunately but will now give qantas the flick and try other airlines. I was in the first class lounge in Sydney the day and the food was cough as well. So far in the last 4 months I’ve only had one decent trip with qantas . Also contacting help desk forget it. Flew Thai business and it was very goodTo 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?
I have found this to be the problem with being P1. Most of us don't want to be a DYKWIA; and then you think "three times the SCs over WP? Hang the bloody coat!"Recently flew off peak SYD-BNE in row 4...
Upon boarding I asked if I could hang my (nice) jacket but was snapped at this service is for J only sorry. After being seated I again politely asked if it was possible to hang my jacket (I seemed to be the only person wearing a jacket) and was snapped at by the cabin crew 'no one behind here can hang their jacket' motioning to the last row of J. Once boarding had completed including J, seeing zero people on the flight had a jacket again I politely asked as I was holding my jacket across my legs at which point I was snapped at again something about J being full / sold out (again everyone in J was wearing a t-shirt/hoodie). My partner had enough and blurted something about P1...magically the CSM took over and politely took my jacket and asked if she could do anything for me Mr Maxwell "how about some rapport training for your friend over there"
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I usually get a shadow in J if cabin is not full at T-80. Shadow often disappears closer to departure time with upgrades and/or crew paxing. But it has held on a few trips to DRW.
I nearly always have that block on 1C but it nearly always gets filled on departure.Out of curiosity are shadows in J a new thing. I used to look at EF for shadows when in R4 but never really bothered if in J. I noticed this on EF today and the flight departure time is within the T-80 rules (around 44 hours to take of) I am assuming it will not stick.
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I usually get a shadow in J if cabin is not full at T-80. Shadow often disappears closer to departure time with upgrades and/or crew paxing. But it has held on a few trips to DRW.
I am not sure with respect to your specific question, however in light of the COVID status extensions, my experience was I had gifted Plat to person 1, then when COVID extensions were enacted their status was extended meaning I was then able to gift to person 2. Given the recent announcement of further 'apology' extensions, I would think that it would be possible to do something similar.I know P1 can "gift" Platinum status, but what are the rules? - there's not much on the website.
If a members Platinum one membership year expires on 31OCT, can they gift Platinum within current membership year - and then gift AGAIN when the new membership year commences...? ie. have 2 gift memberships current at the same time...? (possibly with 2 different people).
Rang QFFF and they suggested it is possible - but the P1 member would need to gift platinum at least ONE MONTH prior to current membership year finishing. What is everyone's experiences please...
Not a problem. It's on the status activity page under your current year earn (see below). I only noticed I could gift the status to another person when I logged in one day to find that Person 1 had dropped off. Before gifting to person 2 I did check with person 1 that they still had Platinum and they advised they had been extended per COVID extensions.Thanks Fergo747, your answers provided clarity. You indicate: cannot have two concurrent gift status - how is the gifted status linked to the P1 giver..??
I don't personally gift platinum to anyone, It's a bug bear of mine, personal opinion only. I don't think it's fair on other platinum users who fork out hard earned money and do the miles to reach and attain platinum.I know P1 can "gift" Platinum status, but what are the rules? - there's not much on the website.
If a members Platinum one membership year expires on 31OCT, can they gift Platinum within current membership year - and then gift AGAIN when the new membership year commences...? ie. have 2 gift memberships current at the same time...? (possibly with 2 different people).
Rang QFFF and they suggested it is possible - but the P1 member would need to gift platinum at least ONE MONTH prior to current membership year finishing. What is everyone's experiences please...
It was originally intended to just be for the spouse of the P1 member. That way the P1 member could indirectly benefit from its use as the extra points the spouse received could be transferred to the P1 member. If the spouse normally only travelled with the P1 member then this would have minimal impact on other WP/P1.I don't personally gift platinum to anyone, It's a bug bear of mine, personal opinion only. I don't think it's fair on other platinum users who fork out hard earned money and do the miles to reach and attain platinum.
Not to mention that rival programs offer even more generous status gifting.It was originally intended to just be for the spouse of the P1 member. That way the P1 member could indirectly benefit from its use as the extra points the spouse received could be transferred to the P1 member. If the spouse normally only travelled with the P1 member then this would have minimal impact on other WP/P1.
Of course some P1 don't have a spouse, and presumably QF received some complaints about this, so the eligibility as to who to gift WP membership to was relaxed.
Whilst you are entitled to your opinion, given the P1 requirement is 3x that of retaining WP (with a 2700 requirement on QF / JQ) then in my opinion it is entirely fair to gift the status. Given the additional nominal benefits of P1, you could argue that the P1 has effectively earned WP for their giftee.I don't personally gift platinum to anyone, It's a bug bear of mine, personal opinion only. I don't think it's fair on other platinum users who fork out hard earned money and do the miles to reach and attain platinum.
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Those postcards made an appearance on a flight last month LAX>BNE on QF16. Kiwi based crew and Ryan the CSM was superb.Haven’t had any effort for quite some time now (since those ‘postcards’).
On some regional flights I might have been the only WP previously and no effort there either…
That is most unusual nowadays. I am used to absolutely no recognition so don't expect it just maybe why I don't get it.. and certainly not even a thought of bubbles from J.Ooooh, I don't know what happened ... QF WP here.
From my experience in Mar-Apr & Jul-Aug - CSM came to the flight, welcomed me, offered champers from J and in one instance (as I previously documented) took me to the front of the J cabin so that I can exit the plane immediately and run to catch my next connection.