QF Platinum Recognition on flights

[Beano]

Now imagine, the pax name is harder to read - like mine the CSM takes a good 5seconds trying to pronounce the name, then another 5 seconds trying to sound the name, then only to ask you "how do I pronounce your name Mr. .... " followed by a long pause (and confused look in the eye) as I pronounce my name in its entirety. And they go "I would have never been able to pronounce that" and I go "yea, I get it" - awkward convo that lasts approx 2 minutes and by this time, the CSM is ready to move on to the next pax on the iPad list. #JoysOfFlying

Off course after saying that if you need anything don't hesitate to ask. Make mine a champagne!

 

[flyingfan]

Former QF CSM and current FFPL here. Used to recognise FFPL’s then there became so many (30-40 on a MEL-SYD) so moved attention to FFPO’s (5-10, easier to do on a 50min sector).

Welcome to posting and hope you’ll share some more insights - with those numbers of FFPOs per golden triangle flight I’m nowhere near as special as I thought I was!

 

[Tacce73]

I was talking to a QF Cabin Manager on a recent international flight - he informed me part of his role was to introduce himself to Gold and Above QF members at the start of the flight. I found this quite surprising as before that flight is not had this experience. It was nice to have the additional, more personal welcome.

 

[GJHBologna]

I'm a Qantas Silver member, but an interesting insight. A couple of days ago I flew Qantas First Syd - LHR. On the leg to SIN I was told the Patagonian toothfish wasn't available because there were a lot of Platinum members on the plane - assumption is they all wanted the toothfish! That was OK, I didn't need toothfish! Also, I was told there was no Rutherglen rare muscat on the aircraft! Why pay thousands of dollars when you can't get toothfish or muscat

 

[Townsend]

The opposite experience.

We have a friend who is a pilot and often flies from Sydney or MEL to DFW. Pilots see passenger lists and he said that often there are only 1 or two Platinum members on board.

 

[elanshin]

The opposite experience.

We have a friend who is a pilot and often flies from Sydney or MEL to DFW. Pilots see passenger lists and he said that often there are only 1 or two Platinum members on board.

I'd imagine it's route dependant. DFW would be an interesting case. I have to imagine the corporates that are going east coast are on QF3/4. LAX connects to a lot more options as well so DFW would potentially have less higher status pax.

I can't imagine that being the case on routes like SIN/LHR and HKG though. But then on a route like CGK, there's probably very few plats on that.