Qantas Reworking How Status Credits are Awarded?

[kangarooflyer88]

I was on the Qantas Status Credits calculator website today and notice this interesting note was posted:



Unsure if this has been discussed elsewhere on AFF but thought I'd share it. The note seems to suggest that only a few routes are affected.

-RooFlyer88

 

[AIRwin]

Enhancement!

 

[SYD]

Enhancement!

Possibly a “positive” enhancement?

Aren’t there a couple of threads here about QF using a shorter distance between some city pairs compared to the GC route?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Possibly a “positive” enhancement?

Aren’t there a couple of threads here about QF using a shorter distance between some city pairs compared to the GC route?

I thought it was the opposite? Using longer distances? And pricing awards higher. The downside is that there’ll be a reduction in SCs for paid fares.

 

[dylarr]

There was an interesting article on AFF on this topic a couple of years ago for anyone interested:

How Does Qantas Calculate the Distance Between Airports?

There's more than one way to calculate the distance between two airports. It makes a difference to the number of Qantas points needed for Classic Flight Rewards on routes like Brisbane-Manila.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

 

[sudoer]

Possibly a “positive” enhancement?

Aren’t there a couple of threads here about QF using a shorter distance between some city pairs compared to the GC route?

Yes there was one for BKK-KUL years back that was spun off from a post I made

Thread 'Was the Distance between BKK & KUL being Deliberately misstated by QFF? [Now Fixed by QFF]'

Jul 20, 2018

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[TheInsider]

This was done last year some time and I think the only route was BNE-MNL

The change was from using the GCD (great circle distance) to the 'vicinity formula'

 

[I love to travel]

I have to say I do find some things confusing. BNE to HKG is 60 status credits in business on CX whilst Auckland is 120 on CX, yet distance is certainly not double. Is it that Qantas penalize you status credits if they fly point to point from the same destination? On a side note how accurate is the calculator especially for partners like Finnair?

 

[blackcat20]

I have to say I do find some things confusing. BNE to HKG is 60 status credits in business on CX whilst Auckland is 120 on CX, yet distance is certainly not double. Is it that Qantas penalize you status credits if they fly point to point from the same destination? On a side note how accurate is the calculator especially for partners like Finnair?

Yes, the penalty for flying a competitor on a QF route was introduced years ago.

 

[moa999]

distance is certainly not double. Is it that Qantas

That's just a competing routes penalty.. where Qantas has the complex tables.

Per above think this is more minor adjustments where airports may have moved over the years with codes transferred (some decades ago like KUL and BKK) but QFF were using old data.

 

[oz_mark]

That's just a competing routes penalty.. where Qantas has the complex tables.

Per above think this is more minor adjustments where airports may have moved over the years with codes transferred (some decades ago like KUL and BKK) but QFF were using old data.

Changing to Vincenty's Formula (presumable from Haversine), also makes small adjustments. In the case of BNE-MNL its 3606 (Haversine) or 3596 (Vincenty).

 

[SYD]

Yes, the penalty for flying a competitor on a QF route was introduced years ago.

“Simpler & Fairer” (TM).

BUT, it’s not strictly a “competitor” thing. If anything it’s an East Coast penalty eg flying QR to DOH ex PER or ADL earns more than ex SYD, MEL or BNE. Fun fact.