Qantas unveils the biggest changes to status in program history

Thanks for all the discussion.
It's helped temper my expectations. Currently going to end on either 4680 or 4840 SC this year. End of year is September.
I mis-read the email to say I could roll over from 1 Oct 2026. Thanks to those clarifying roll over is for SC next year.
Hopefully, I can still claim my two hoarded loyalty bonus after 1 October.
 
As @sudoer said - compared to what some other programs have seen, this seems a much friendlier set of changes to navigate over the next 5-10 years.

But we are comparing the previous QFF scheme with the new one, not a general survey. I suggest what Virgin or anyone else has done with their scheme is irrelevant to whether the QFF changes are positive or negative for any one person. For me, its a positive change.
 
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This may be a stupid question, but they talk a lot about rollover SC, the reality is I have achieved between 1200-1400 credits for the past 6ish years, I may get to 1400, I suspect I won't and I'm a couple of k short of LTG.
So if I fail to retain Platinum because I get to 1300SC I'm assuming I soft land on gold. Do I also roll over the 250sc, as it wasn't achieving gold, it was failing to retain plat? I assume so, but it's not clear.

If so, given all of my points are self funded, most in longhaul J, it may alternate years of acheiving plat, then dropping to Gold by flying with points for a year, then flying revenue at the start of my membership year to regain plat using roll over SC...
 
I assume the rollover SC only applies if you exceed the retain for your current tier. If you fail to retain then a soft landing and that’s it.
 
I assume the rollover SC only applies if you exceed the retain for your current tier. If you fail to retain then a soft landing and that’s it.

Soft-landing, in it's purest form, means if you attain WP and never fly again, you drop to Gold, then to Silver a year later, on so on

On the other hand if you are Gold, and attain only 400 SC, you have achieved Silver rather than soft-landed on Silver... so you should be entitled to roll-over the appropriate % of the remaining SC ??
 

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