Qantas Status Credits Boost

[Hoatzin]

My first StatusKeeperTM payments have posted too. Slightly earlier than expected.

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Not a bad outcome for someone who was considering letting their status lapse, only to get an extra year of gold and only need 240SC to renew for SG. Can you, or more importantly would you want to do this before March 31st 2021 though...

Still having silver status 21-22 with OW Ruby benefits and the one time pass to the exclusive QC for nothing is a good outcome in its own right.

 

[pauleg]

Pineapples have received their StatusKeeper payments for the last three months. Mrs Pineapple should be pleased with the result .
cheers skip
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What a great way to get over the LTG line!!! Well done. (Although an actual trip would have been better )

 

[Legoman]

Have I read this right? - It's one of the most convoluted and complicated schemes I've ever read

Status Support | Qantas Frequent Flyer

I am currently Silver, but in early September courtesy of the 50SC loyalty bonus I will make it to Gold for the first time. My anniversary reset date is 29 Sep. Does this mean they are going to give me 300 SC in Oct this year to help me retain Gold until 29 Sep 2022?

I think I need 600 SC to retain Gold after getting there with 700 SC this year, so I will only need another 300 SC in 20-21 in order to keep the Gold for the following 21-22 year? Does that sound right?

 

[Hoatzin]

Have I read this right? - It's one of the most convoluted and complicated schemes I've ever read

Status Support | Qantas Frequent Flyer

I am currently Silver, but in early September courtesy of the 50SC loyalty bonus I will make it to Gold for the first time. My anniversary reset date is 29 Sep. Does this mean they are going to give me 300 SC in Oct this year to help me retain Gold until 29 Sep 2022?

I think I need 600 SC to retain Gold after getting there with 700 SC this year, so I will only need another 300 SC in 20-21 in order to keep the Gold for the following 21-22 year? Does that sound right?

Qantas say;

The Status Credit Boost is 50% of the required annual Status Credits needed to keep your status. The amount you receive depends on your status at the time the Boost is awarded. The table below outlines the different amounts by status:

Silver Gold Platinum Platinum One
Status Credit Boost 125 300 600 1,800

You say that the end of September is your anniversary reset date. Qantas says that your Status Boost award date will be in October 2020. I'd say then, based on the above in italics that your assumption is correct.

Enjoy

 

[oz_mark]

Have I read this right? - It's one of the most convoluted and complicated schemes I've ever read

Status Support | Qantas Frequent Flyer

I am currently Silver, but in early September courtesy of the 50SC loyalty bonus I will make it to Gold for the first time. My anniversary reset date is 29 Sep. Does this mean they are going to give me 300 SC in Oct this year to help me retain Gold until 29 Sep 2022?

I think I need 600 SC to retain Gold after getting there with 700 SC this year, so I will only need another 300 SC in 20-21 in order to keep the Gold for the following 21-22 year? Does that sound right?

The reset date of 29 Sep doesn't sound right, but the rest does.
Assuming Gold on the first day of the new year, it will be 300 SC.

 

[Legoman]

The reset date of 29 Sep doesn't sound right

 

[sudoer]

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Possibly an iOS app UI bug during leap years.

Does the same date appear on the Qantas website when accessing from a computer?

 

[Legoman]

Possibly an iOS app UI bug during leap years.

Does the same date appear on the Qantas website when accessing from a computer?

No, there is says 30 Sep

 

[Mattg]

Not a bad outcome for someone who was considering letting their status lapse, only to get an extra year of gold and only need 240SC to renew for SG. Can you, or more importantly would you want to do this before March 31st 2021 though...

Still having silver status 21-22 with OW Ruby benefits and the one time pass to the exclusive QC for nothing is a good outcome in its own right.

As you say, my previous plan was to ditch Qantas after my 2019-20 membership year ended in March, and switch to BA Executive Club. I purposely credited very few flights to QF last year and would have dropped to Silver after March if not for the status extensions. But a few things have happened since then, e.g. I wasn't planning to return to Australia, obviously Qantas has now extended my status, and Qantas has also now introduced Points Club, which changes the equation a bit.

At this rate, I'll have 545 status credits by September after having flown only 1 Qantas flight (a discount economy CFS-SYD) this year. The various opportunities to earn status credits on the ground and a new credit card application have helped with this. If I can get the 3 more ~ needed by March 2021, which I'll almost certainly do, renewing Gold won't be a problem. I may even be able to get the remaining status credits and ~ from award flights as I'll soon be in the Points Club.

Once things are back to normal and I'm back in Europe, I'll probably be at or close to LTS with QF, so it will be tempting to just stick with QFF and go for LTG rather than switching to BA as planned.

I was also planning to switch my Star Alliance loyalty from United to Asiana this year... that is now on hold too as United has extended my status until January 2022.

 

[davem]

Anyone based overseas gotten any news on how we are supposed to do the 4QF segments this year?

 

[Mattg]

Anyone based overseas gotten any news on how we are supposed to do the 4QF segments this year?

Obviously it will be much harder if overseas. But it just needs to be 4 Qantas or Jetstar marketed flights, right? Are Jetstar NZ/Jetstar Asia or codeshare flights on partner airlines doable?

 

[teamhamsandwich]

Kinda unsure how this will work for me. I'm a WP on parental status pause until Oct 31, 21 and have 1230 status credits. Does that mean an extension until Oct 31, 22? And do I get 600 bonus or the P1 boost of 1800 as I'm now going for P1? Confusing.

 

[blackcat20]

Kinda unsure how this will work for me. I'm a WP on parental status pause until Oct 31, 21 and have 1230 status credits. Does that mean an extension until Oct 31, 22? And do I get 600 bonus or the P1 boost of 1800 as I'm now going for P1? Confusing.

You'd get 600 as its based on your current status. You'd only get 1800 if you were P1 at the time of the boost.

 

[teamhamsandwich]

You'd get 600 as its based on your current status. You'd only get 1800 if you were P1 at the time of the boost.

Thought so, but as I've hit 1230 SC will my WP extend to 2022 and the 600 bonus goes towards 2023?

 

[blackcat20]

Thought so, but as I've hit 1230 SC will my WP extend to 2022 and the 600 bonus goes towards 2023?

You'd have to use the link posted upthread to work out what you get and when.

I'm on parental pause until June next year and had already requalified, I got 300 this month as an SG.

 

[GoldCanyon340]

This is my general observation......

I reckon there's a fair bit of overthinking happening with status extensions, StatusKeeper and the four squiggles (*), especially with regards to the March Problem. International travel is not coming back for a long while and domestic travel was weak even before Victoria impacted the Golden Triangle. Surely you would think QF is not going to throw people under the bus because SC collection opportunities are so limited? I do feel for people outside of Australia with regards to the aforementioned minimum squiggle requirement but again QF is not going to disregard a Gold or above because they can't hop on the non-existent QF10 to PER.

It's my opinion there will be more handouts, more leeway, more waiving. Use QF in another way: buy wine, collect the points, sit in the back yard and contemplate the next EK award flight with Dom Perignon. Life really can be simpler.


(*) didn't they record a few hit singles?

 

[VPS]

This is my general observation......

I reckon there's a fair bit of overthinking happening with status extensions, StatusKeeper and the four squiggles (*), especially with regards to the March Problem. International travel is not coming back for a long while and domestic travel was weak even before Victoria impacted the Golden Triangle. Surely you would think QF is not going to throw people under the bus because SC collection opportunities are so limited? I do feel for people outside of Australia with regards to the aforementioned minimum squiggle requirement but again QF is not going to disregard a Gold or above because they can't hop on the non-existent QF10 to PER.

It's my opinion there will be more handouts, more leeway, more waiving. Use QF in another way: buy wine, collect the points, sit in the back yard and contemplate the next EK award flight with Dom Perignon. Life really can be simpler.


(*) didn't they record a few hit singles?

Only ever the one Mr Squiggle with Miss Pat (YMMV)

 

[PineappleSkip]

I am supposed to fly back to Africa in Sept or Oct, subject if course to all the approvals and other rigmaroles, and normally would get blitz the remaining SCs to requal on one return J flight. However I’m probably inclined this time to EK via DXB as the only practicable route/carrier that I can do on a single ticket. QF to DXB would involve a separate onwards ticket on FZ which I’d be wary of given the ongoing uncertainty around every place out there. So zero SCs on EK flights even if travel is approved, and without more QF largesse I am probably snookered. That’s in addition to the four flight rule...

But then there is another whole question mark about the value of status medium term if we are stuck with this for the long haul.

cheers skip

 

[Seat0B]

@GoldCanyon340 its not just overseas people who will have trouble with the 4 QF flights. I live in Canberra and we are not able to fly anywhere much at the moment except regional NSW, and maybe just maybe QLD if the flight is not via Sydney (which they almost all are) and you like to gamble on the daily border open/closed status!

 

[ChrisMars]

@GoldCanyon340 its not just overseas people who will have trouble with the 4 QF flights. I live in Canberra and we are not able to fly anywhere much at the moment except regional NSW, and maybe just maybe QLD if the flight is not via Sydney (which they almost all are) and you like to gamble on the daily border open/closed status!

QLD still lets you transit via Sydney, it is currently listed as an exemption under their border restriction number 9.

Border Restrictions Direction (No. 60)

To reduce the risk of COVID-19 in Queensland and manage outbreaks, the Queensland Government has put in place declaration requirements for all travel into Queensland from interstate and New Zealand (on quarantine free flights).

www.health.qld.gov.au

"the person arrived by air to the COVID-19 hotspot for the sole purpose of transiting through an airport in the COVID-19 hotspot and did not leave the confines of the airport;"