Qantas unveils the biggest changes to status in program history

[clifford]

It would be extraordinary bad faith by Qantas if they turned 1200 at the end of September into 1400 next September because of some change coming in 2027.

And that would surprise you? It's Qantas. They have form.

 

[Cloud9]

And that would surprise you? It's Qantas. They have form.

Of the poor variety, generally.

 

[fletty]

Could you not just make multiple transactions a day apart to get to desired outcome?

That was my plan

Yeah I believe so, just transfer in <125k batches

 

[RooFlyer]

Do we really believe that Qantas won't change it mid-way through the year? Is their IT actually good enough to show different targets to different people?

And that would surprise you? It's Qantas. They have form.

Geez, I must be going soft on Qantas! Yes, I think Qantas will hold the 1200 for 2026 new membership years, but I wouldn't put my house on it.

 

[Cloud9]

Geez, I must be going soft on Qantas! Yes, I think Qantas will hold the 1200 for 2026 new membership years, but I wouldn't put my house on it.

I reckon they'll honour it. Numbers for WP seem to finally be on the fall post pandemic and those living on magic plastic finally having to wind their necks in helps there. If we do hopefully see interest rates above 5.5% things should balance more in favour of those of us who read the room and live within our means.

 

[fletty]

Lulz. Good developers in Australia. Qantas won't pay for them.

There's dozens of us!

 

[Cloud9]

There's dozens of us!

Rather my point.

 

[sudoer]

Sorry if this has already been discussed and I've missed it, but I noticed Qantas has posted a list of eligible partners for each SC on the ground category - is this new?

It's more extensive than I was expecting, which is good as I think most categories should be relatively easy to pick up without much additional cost. The trickier or more expensive categories are likely to be Holidays & Experiences and Banking & Home Loans.

 

[Cloud9]

Sorry if this has already been discussed and I've missed it, but I noticed Qantas has posted a list of eligible partners for each SC on the ground category - is this new?

It's more extensive than I was expecting, which is good as I think most categories should be relatively easy to pick up without much additional cost. The trickier or more expensive categories are likely to be Holidays & Experiences and Banking & Home Loans.

New one on me, mate; still not a fan of this SC on the ground nonsense, though.

 

[ChrisMars]

Sorry if this has already been discussed and I've missed it, but I noticed Qantas has posted a list of eligible partners for each SC on the ground category - is this new?

It's more extensive than I was expecting, which is good as I think most categories should be relatively easy to pick up without much additional cost. The trickier or more expensive categories are likely to be Holidays & Experiences and Banking & Home Loans.

Banking has a few easy path: zip pay and Webull have welcome offers, qantas pay is probably easy too.
Holiday & experience seems a bit tricky indeed, and the green offset one seems too costly, I am hopping they had more partners in that category

 

[sudoer]

Banking has a few easy path: zip pay and Webull have welcome offers, qantas pay is probably easy too.

There may be thresholds with these vendors though - will need to wait for detail

green offset one seems too costly

Probably a trick to this that's better left unsaid.

 

[Cloud9]

There may be thresholds with these vendors though - will need to wait for detail



Probably a trick to this that's better left unsaid.

On a totally unrelated note, I hear Tassie's good for a Friday night dinner...

 

[sudoer]

On a totally unrelated note, I hear Tassie's good for a Friday night dinner...

No it's not, change of plans.

 

[Cloud9]

No it's not, change of plans.

Ooooo... I'll have to grab the atlas.

 

[SYD]

There may be thresholds with these vendors though - will need to wait for detail

That’s the key bit now - how many points required for each category noting that the trial was only 3 mths, so I guess the thresholds will be 4x (ie harder)?

The comment up thread about the Carbon Offset being 1000pts (ie $100) was pure speculation and in fact possibly flawed in that it could be 4000pts (being 4x 1000 allowing for 12mths status year).

Hopefully it works more like GT and only requires 1x offset?

 

[fletty]

The trickier or more expensive categories are likely to be Holidays & Experiences and Banking & Home Loans.

Sniip looks like the easiest for Banking.

 

[SYD]

Sniip looks like the easiest for Banking.

That’ll depend on the threshold?

Webull was pretty easy for 1000 pts. I already have that this member year, so hopefully that’s enough for one category for me.

 

[bussyboy]

1000 QFF earn per category last time around to trigger the SC earn, will be interested to see if the thresholds differ in each category this time.

 

[SYD]

1000 QFF earn per category last time around to trigger the SC earn, will be interested to see if the thresholds differ in each category this time.

But that was 1000 pts across 3mths. So we’d expect more over 12mths?

Or preferably earn SCs up to 4x times per cat (1000 pts) with the total possible capped.

 

[bussyboy]

But that was 1000 pts across 3mths. So we’d expect more over 12mths?

Or preferably earn SCs up to 4x times per cat (1000 pts) with the total possible capped.

Okay, that makes some sense!
Still so many questions, like which categories earn say 10 SC, which earn more?

Holidays and experiences (now separated out from Hotels and Accommodation) and Home utilities are very unlikely earners for me unfortunately, and the Utilities category was worth 20 SC last year