Qantas unveils the biggest changes to status in program history

[mviy]

The requesting of awards (as I understand it as WP benefit rather than a P1 benefit)

Requesting of QF reward seat releases is an unpublished benefit for WP and much harder to get approved than for P1.

 

[mviy]

I understand the frustration with the LTP target, but probably most here if they had LTP would try to do all/most of their QF flying on points if they had LTP, which is not what QF wants.

As much as I’d like a 28k/35k LTSC target to get LTP, I can’t see that happening unless there’s a serious devaluation in benefits, which we wouldn’t want.

 

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I understand the frustration with the LTP target, but probably most here if they had LTP would try to do all/most of their QF flying on points if they had LTP, which is not what QF wants.

As much as I’d like a 28k/35k LTSC target to get LTP, I can’t see that happening unless there’s a serious devaluation in benefits, which we wouldn’t want.

Agree. I don’t see the threshold decreasing, however I do think there are levers around the milestones which they can improve. For example, access to QF only F lounges when travelling on QF for those that hit 50,000 SCs which was something they floated pre-COVID.

 

[Jacques Vert]

I agree with others that QF have missed the mark with these changes. Since reaching LTG two years ago, I've amassed a grand total of 235 more SCs.

There is nothing in these enhancements that are an incentive for me to fly QF more often. The cost to get to WP for the limited additional benefits isn't worth it to me and the increase to 14,000 to retain WP thereafter is a further disincentive.

 

[DejaBrew]

the increase to 14,000 to retain WP thereafter is a further disincentive

You only need 1,400 to retain WP so it's literally 10 times easier than you think

 

[Jacques Vert]

You only need 1,400 to retain WP so it's literally 10 times easier than you think

Of course it is; but I'm still not incentivised to achieve it.

 

[MH_fan]

75000 was simply too high for LTP. I think 50000 is much more reasonable. Still higher than the equivalent of attaining LTD or LTG, but farer.

 

[Kangol]

BA release to their own members 4 award seats in each of Y, PE, J on every flight which tends to be 4 more in each of those classes than Qantas ever do. Means there’s less of a need to request seats.

How about F? Is that an equal priority for all levels of membership? You'd expect better availability for higher tier, over lower ones.

The requesting of awards (as I understand it as WP benefit rather than a P1 benefit) and as vhojm points out BA and SQ have much better availability of award seats to their members which negate the need for requests. SQ does provide better availability and can unlock award seats / upgrades via chasers

I suppose the difference is that there might be the need for a request if there's none available.
You could be unlucky with BA and someone snaps up all the J award seats the day they are released. If you wait one more day and they're gone, the option to request would be valuable. Even if it's unlikely to happen across the board, when it happens to you - it's 100% failure.
If SQ can do something like the manual review after rejection for P1, that would be great - for Solitaire/PPS I'm guessing. However I have not read any reports of this.