Revised Qantas FF Account Home Page June 2019

[maroonone]

Me too. But maybe the system is overloaded with QFF members calculating how many decades until they are LTP.

 

[JFi]

I also noticed it being slow. The page is almost 28MB, not sure how big the old one was though.
For comparison, I loaded The Age website with all the images and ads and scrolled through the entire page and it was still only 16MB. Ironically, the biggest ad on The Age was a massive banner on top for QFF's "biggest overhaul".

 

[p--and--t]

I'm on ADSL2 at home in MEL and it is lightning fast??? Chrome

Experiences may differ

 

[Max Samuels]

Try logging in with Facebook maybe that speeds things up

 

[Himeno]

Try logging in with Facebook maybe that speeds things up

That would require having one.

 

[RichardMEL]

yeah well involving third parties for authentication and the rest will always cause stuff.

Personally I *never* do that sort of thing.. but that's just me.

(yes the FF page is full of graphics and overly "busy" imo but at least it's better laid out than it was I think)

 

[eddie 73]

I like the new front page format, nice profile summary.

 

[ajd]

I also noticed it being slow. The page is almost 28MB, not sure how big the old one was though.
For comparison, I loaded The Age website with all the images and ads and scrolled through the entire page and it was still only 16MB. Ironically, the biggest ad on The Age was a massive banner on top for QFF's "biggest overhaul".

28MB is disgusting.

I am young enough to have had computer labs with student internet access available to me in school. I remember when my school first rolled out a per-user internet quota. It was 5MB a week. Wasn't great, but with careful rationing you could do your work and still have enough left over for the occasional personal email and other business.

Now we load 28MB for a single page and that's considered not too abnormal. Sigh.

 

[pauly7]

FF Account Page - sorry for confuse! I suppose I am only ever "logged in" so don't notice the landing page

I actually got served a brand new qantas.com homepage on Thursday AM when they were making all the QFF changes.... was served it for about 3 sessions during that day then it reverted to the old/current one.

Wonder if that’s on the way too.

 

[p--and--t]

28MB is disgusting.

I am young enough to have had computer labs with student internet access available to me in school. I remember when my school first rolled out a per-user internet quota. It was 5MB a week. Wasn't great, but with careful rationing you could do your work and still have enough left over for the occasional personal email and other business.

Now we load 28MB for a single page and that's considered not too abnormal. Sigh.

It's all relative, guess what - things change.

I remember when our single shared terminal at work was upgraded from a 360b floppy to a 720b floppy.

A lot of younger people would ask if I made a typo and meant gb instead of b

 

[ajd]

It's all relative, guess what - things change.

And things change for the worse! Clearly I'm becoming old, in my 20s.

With internet speeds so much faster, if we kept page sizes down imagine how snappy everything would be...

Of course, I can't complain. I'm currently working on a website, far, far, far simpler than the QFF site, and it's already 445 KB for a page that's almost 100% text. Turns out a quarter of that is the Facebook share button. Zuck's tracking, eating up everyone's mobile data a hundred kilobytes at a time.

I remember when our single shared terminal at work was upgraded from a 360b floppy to a 720b floppy.

A lot of younger people would ask if I made a typo and meant gb instead of b

I'm just old enough to have encountered 5.25" floppy drives, and computers that used cassette tapes for storage unless you bought the optional floppy drive extra...

I'm probably just bitter because my employment involves working with various types of embedded electronics, and while our storage constraints aren't what they used to be, we still have to go to some effort to shave any excess kilobytes off our code. Web frontend developers on the other hand...

Anyway - loading the QFF page, for me, only used 7.7MB of bandwidth (with cache disabled). That's not too bad by the standards of the modern web.

 

[justinbrett]

It's all relative, guess what - things change.

I remember when our single shared terminal at work was upgraded from a 360b floppy to a 720b floppy.

A lot of younger people would ask if I made a typo and meant gb instead of b

Surely it must be a typo - 360b is 360 bits (360 1s & 0s) which is 45 bytes, not even enough to store a sentence of characters. (B is byte and b is bit)

I think you must mean KB, even 360-720B would struggle to store a paragraph of text. I don’t believe they ever made disks sub 1KB. My first PC used 512KB floppys.

 

[p--and--t]

Surely it must be a typo - 360b is 360 bits (360 1s & 0s) which is 45 bytes, not even enough to store a sentence of characters. (B is byte and b is bit)

I think you must mean KB, even 360-720B would struggle to store a paragraph of text. I don’t believe they ever made disks sub 1KB. My first PC used 512KB floppys.

You are correct in both observations. I lazily used lower case instead of upper case. From memory the first generation, which a different section, had were 80KB and ours were initially 360KB until we were upgraded later to 720KB

 

[DT95WA]

Am I the only one sitting here searching for the lounge pass link now? Used to be under Frequent flyer. Will keep searching.

 

[p--and--t]

"Am I the only one sitting here searching for the lounge pass link now? Used to be under Frequent flyer. Will keep searching. "

try one of the side panel links here...

Qantas - Search Results for lounge pass

qantas.resultspage.com

 

[Peter D]

I quite like it.
It downloaded quickly, almost insantly, on my main domestic computer, and was almost as quick on my ipad via safari and the wi-fi.
I like the summary on the left but have yet to try other features.

 

[eric2011]

Am I the only one sitting here searching for the lounge pass link now? Used to be under Frequent flyer. Will keep searching.

Front page, lefthand side 2/3 way down is a list of about 7 things you can do/look at

 

[DT95WA]

Front page, lefthand side 2/3 way down is a list of about 7 things you can do/look at

Ahhh, I was too busy looking in the top sub menu's. Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Hvr]

Expiry date now set to 2101

Well if you're scheduled to last that long LTP will definitely be a possibility.

 

[Max Samuels]

I would still prefer a more simple website that actually allowed me to do thing I have come to do: find a flight, and book said flight. All this other garbage they clog the screen up with drives me crazy! Getting as bad as Jetstar! Once, during a DSC, I decided to go ahead and book my known domestic travel for the next several months in one hit - which was about 15 flights as I recall..... OMG - never again. I didn't realise how long it took to make a booking until I had to do a lot of them... so many options you have to DECLINE to even get to the point where you pay!
People often wonder why/how it is that travel agents still exist - I think this could be part of the reason.

Also - just wondering - does anyone actually log into their FF account with Facebook? What is the point? Feels like something that a teenager booking a trip to Bali would do rather than Mr High-Flying-Business Man. Personally I do not have any social media accounts so the benefit/value of using Facebook to log into an airline's website is completely lost on me....