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?
yes they are apparently for P1's flying during the festive period.
Some clearly have lucked out with this promo. Those of us not traveling (and some others who did not receive even when flying over the festive period) it probably seems a bit unfair. You'd think QF could have done this a bit smarter - for example apply electronically.
At any rate it's a nice gesture that is of some value indeed.
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What utter cough to assume that every/most/many P1s have attained that status because of their employment...Nah completely agree with QF strategy here. Admit, everyone P1 basically because employer, giving $200 voucher at the lounge/gate rewards personal spend. Smart.
No, it is definitely not.Well it is for me. Is it for you?
What utter cough to assume that every/most/many P1s have attained that status because of their employment...
I could pick a percentage out of my backside, but that would be as inaccurate and useless as the original comment.What % of P1s do you think get there without business travel?
I could pick a percentage out of my backside, but that would be as inaccurate and useless as the original comment.
I never said 'leisure only' and your other assumptions are also some way off the mark.I don't think it would be useless, to suggest another member's opinion is "utter cough" without sharing your reasoning is far more useless... IMO
I suspect that as a leisure-only P1 traveller you'd be very much in the minority.
3600 SC with 2700 on QF is an absurd amount of leisure travel and even if you just flew QF F it would only be practically achievable once retired or seldom working?
huh? Are you suggesting that P1 travel at Christmas is going to be personal spend? Seems a bit of an assumption to me.Nah completely agree with QF strategy here. Admit, everyone P1 basically because employer, giving $200 voucher at the lounge/gate rewards personal spend. Smart.
I'm a 100% self funded flyer.. but it's not all about me However I feel entitled (soooo entitled ) to venture an opinion since this came up.I'm also not entirely sure how this idea that handing out a voucher at the lounge 'rewards personal spend'. There are plenty of your P1 business travellers who will have travelled all the way up to, during and directly after the Christmas period for work purposes.
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I never said 'leisure only'
What utter cough to assume that every/most/many P1s have attained that status because of their employment...
your other assumptions are also some way off the mark.
actually encourages personal spend rather than rewards it tbh.
What utter cough to assume that every/most/many P1s have attained that status because of their employment...
I'd personally be fascinated to know how some things are classified
I find all this kind of thing quite fascinating personally
they'll probably continue to need that sales manager or CEO type position to keep doing the kind of travel they do no matter who it is..
So I am sure ALL of this kind of stuff factors into how QF "value" each of us.
Now it took probably over a year till their system figured out I was no longer buying cat products (my cat passed away) before they gave up targeting me with pet products
they collect all this data for reasons and they could do a great job at potentially leveraging them far better imo.
I am constantly fascinated as to how useless this stuff is. Woolies rewards never sends me anything that has the slightest interest to me. Their profiling is apparently totally wrong. Perhaps because BWS gets a good mention, they reckon I'll be be buying all their highly processed rubbish because we're too legless to cook?I'm actually surprised QF has not tended to target more things personally as of yet - since this is all about what a good CRM system should be about imo. I mean, for example, they know the kinds of fares I am willing to buy and those I am not so can get probably a fairly accurate idea of what my price point is.. or what promos work for me (DSC yep... DP nope, etc) so why not try to tempt me more specifically?
of course I reckon many of these are behind in this regard too. For example I use wolies rewards - they can probably make a very reasonable picture of who I am based on my purchases (and no doubt part of the deal with QF is to share some of this data as part of the tie in). They (Woolies) sot of do or have but in the simplest of ways. For example I used to buy cat food and litter products consistently. conclusion? dude has at least one cat. So they would target some offers to me on pet products, insurance etc. Now it took probably over a year till their system figured out I was no longer buying cat products (my cat passed away) before they gave up targeting me with pet products. I do notice that often they will target me with certain bonus points offers on things I've recently or often purchased (of course when they are at full price - to stt if I'll bite - which I usually don't lol). Now that's kind of the thing I expect from such a sytem. Instead QF sends me, for example, promos for say travel to Japan - where I've never flown (and last transited 20+ years ago) when if they took time to analyze my travel patterns there are much smarter ways to target me. Probably their systems aren't yet built for this, or possibly integrated properly - but it's the kind of thing I'd love to see happen. :et's say I purchase mostly ale/discount premium fares so why not tempt me with fares on routes I use that perhaps are not quite sale fares, but not as high as regular ones - will I bite? Or alternatively perhaps offer me a deal to upgrade to F, or 1.5x SC on say SYD-LAX in exchange for a certain J level fare. Maybe I'll bite, maybe not - but it may be a way to extract yield while I feel I get value too as a customer. OTOH the QF customer next door mnay buy cheap Y fares to gold coast and bali, so the targeting/inducement to spend (or bonus promo offers, or whatever) would be very different.
One can only assume this is the kinds of things that we should expect in the future - they collect all this data for reasons and they could do a great job at potentially leveraging them far better imo.