Qantas unveils the biggest changes to status in program history

[esseeeayeenn]

^^^ Different strokes for different folks; the question is, what does QF's "preferred" loyal customer look like (presumably those who spend the most) and what do these changes mean for them as a group (if that group can even be generalised)?

I don't think it's a question of the preferred customer.
I think QF had a number in mind for the LTP tier and based the threshold on that.
However I suspect the data inputted into the modelling would have included the unusually high number of elite status holders post-COVID.
Status keeper and other promotions meant there was no attrition for about 3 years.
It probably also over-estimated the burden of LTP members by over-estimating their future travel frequency, based on pre-COVID work travel.

 

[CaptJCool]

I don't think it's a question of the preferred customer.
I think QF had a number in mind for the LTP tier and based the threshold on that.
However I suspect the data inputted into the modelling would have included the unusually high number of elite status holders post-COVID.
Status keeper and other promotions meant there was no attrition for about 3 years.
It probably also over-estimated the burden of LTP members by over-estimating their future travel frequency, based on pre-COVID work travel.

With no attrition
There probably wasn’t a lot of travel either … so usage was on LOW DEMAND

 

[esseeeayeenn]

With no attrition
There probably wasn’t a lot of travel either … so usage was on LOW DEMAND

Different types of data.
Membership is just a number, at a particular point in time.
Usage would need to be measured over a period of time.
So COVID would have impacted each differently.

 

[jakob]

Absolutely agree. SCs should be earned through flying only. Stop this nonsense and lower the lifetime WP threshold.

Transport minister given free Qantas platinum status for life

Catherine King accepted the airline’s top-tier membership, which gives the federal cabinet minister privileges and freebies until the day she dies.

www.afr.com

Much lower threshold for some! (paywalled and maybe the article is different to headline)

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

Transport minister given free Qantas platinum status for life

Catherine King accepted the airline’s top-tier membership, which gives the federal cabinet minister privileges and freebies until the day she dies.

www.afr.com

Much lower threshold for some! (paywalled and maybe the article is different to headline)

Pathetic. Do other countries allow this?

 

[esseeeayeenn]

Transport minister given free Qantas platinum status for life

Catherine King accepted the airline’s top-tier membership, which gives the federal cabinet minister privileges and freebies until the day she dies.

www.afr.com

Much lower threshold for some! (paywalled and maybe the article is different to headline)

The government has passed a lot of legislation recently to regulate campaign donations.
An important reform to avoid AU becoming like the US, where the government can be bought - and has been.
Musk has boasted of how he bought Trump a second term, and AIPAC is busy buying members of congress on behalf of a foreign state.
However the danger to democracy in AU comes from lobbyists and soft influence like this.
It's not unique to Labor - they just happen to be in Government right now.

 

[transpactraveller]

Much lower threshold for some! (paywalled and maybe the article is different to headline)

Not much more in the article, though it appears we're now called "points-maxxers" by the AFR