Skywards or QFF?

[jackster]

Hi

I’m flying a paid fare on Qantas to Singapore (flex economy) on Qantas code and metal and then to Europe in business (saver fare) with Emirates on EK code and metal.

Using my QFF number for flight to and from
Singapore. However, I haven’t put my frequent flyer number in for the Singapore to Europe flights. Not sure whether to use my QFF (gold) number or open a new skywards account and use that. It seems I’ll earn no status credits with QFF and half the points of Emirates skywards. Emirates skywards will give me silver status and more points but it seems like you need a lot more of them to use them compared to Qantas. I’m thinking that I’ll go with QFF number for my Emirates flights. Any thoughts?

Apologies if this has been asked before.

 

[drron]

We did this in march with the EK flights SIN - FRA. The business saver fare we had gave no lounge access. Also looking at the Skywards program points needed for anything decent are high and taxes etc are sky high for skywards.
So no lounge access in SIN or DBX if your skyward number was in our case. So check if your business saver is no lounge access if so your QFF number is a better idea.

 

[jackster]

Thanks drron. Ours is a business saver and it does allow lounge access. Think the business special is the one that doesn’t provide access. We got ours for a good price in Feb - $4.5k Singapore to London and Paris to Singapore. Looking forward to it. All A380! Expresso martini’s here we come.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Use your QFF. Skywards is practically useless these days, almost impossible to use for flights and very high surcharges.

 

[Seat0B]

Thanks for this info - I've also been wondering about just getting a Skywards membership given the trips to DXB to see Seat Son, but sounds like we are probably better off sticking to QF codeshares

 

[CorporateFlyerMEL]

one issue about using Qantas FF number rather than Skywards is no access to Wifi without $

 

[HSB44]

Do Skywards gold members get automatic access to Qantas club?

Or do you have to have a booking with your skywards number quoted on boarding pass(assuming you have no QFF status)

ie - do they force you to choose between earning Qantas status points as a QFF VS getting lounge access as skyward gold?

Or can you have the best of both worlds?

 

[knagelli]

one issue about using Qantas FF number rather than Skywards is no access to Wifi without $

Does it mean even the J/F class passengers will not get wifi access if they are using different FF number in their booking ?

 

[CorporateFlyerMEL]

Does it mean even the J/F class passengers will not get wifi access if they are using different FF number in their booking ?

yes - no wifi for free unless EK number is in booking. I spoke to cabin staff who agree that this is an anomaly for Qantas FF, but cannot offer solution - I asked for promo code (as this field comes up when logging in) which they said they did not have...