status credits

[Lynne Mangold]

my qantas frequent flyer is currently bronze but my status credits now are at 600, when does my membership start showing as silver.

 

[Himeno]

Have you had at least 4 QF/JQ coded point earning flights?

 

[Lynne Mangold]

no just completed one international flight BC at double status credits and a 50 credits for as a loyalty bonus

 

[RichardMEL]

no just completed one international flight BC at double status credits and a 50 credits for as a loyalty bonus

You will need at least another 2 QF flights then. This should show up on your account summary - when you get those you should jump to Silver (or Gold if you end up over 700 with the extra flights)

 

[Lynne Mangold]

I have one flight scheduled in february and that will be it for a while. So basically the status credits have no benefit to me at all when my membership year ends in July.
from what I had read on line it stated 300 status credits to move to silver but no mention of 3 QF flights in a membership year.

 

[theweaselsteve]

You need 4 QF/JQ coded sectors in the year. So if you did 2 sectors recently and you have another 2 sectors booked in February then that should get you over the line. How many SC's will you earn on your flight in Feb? It might be worth booking something else to get you to gold before your year end in July.

 

[greenfish]

I have one flight scheduled in february and that will be it for a while. So basically the status credits have no benefit to me at all when my membership year ends in July.
from what I had read on line it stated 300 status credits to move to silver but no mention of 3 QF flights in a membership year.

It is there:

From https://www.qantas.com/fflyer/dyn/flying/status-credits

† The travel required in each Membership Year to attain or retain Silver, Gold or Platinum membership must include a minimum of four Eligible Flight Segments where a QF, JQ, 3K, GK or BL flight number is on the ticket

 

[mviy]

It's 4 flight segments on QF/JQ in a year.

A return trip on QF would count as 2 segments (one each way).

If you flew indirect you could get 4 segments going e.g. MEL-BNE-CNS return as MEL-BNE and BNE-CNS are different flight numbers.

If in addition to the 2 segments you need you can get to 700 SC to get SG you will have access to the QANTAS Club lounges and the International Business lounges when flying Oneworld till the end of your following membership year. If you have a QANTAS Club membership this would be paused till you have a soft landing from SG back to PS.

 

[mannej]

I have one flight scheduled in february and that will be it for a while. So basically the status credits have no benefit to me at all when my membership year ends in July.
from what I had read on line it stated 300 status credits to move to silver but no mention of 3 QF flights in a membership year.

It's on your membership home page, not sure how it could be missed.

 

[RichardMEL]

I have one flight scheduled in february and that will be it for a while. So basically the status credits have no benefit to me at all when my membership year ends in July.
from what I had read on line it stated 300 status credits to move to silver but no mention of 3 QF flights in a membership year.

It is actually 4 flight sectors:

On this poage: https://www.qantas.com/fflyer/dyn/program/tier-info

the main para refers to this:
"
[h=2]Tier Status - worth reaching and keeping[/h]Silver, Gold, Platinum and Platinum One members enjoy extra privileges when they fly. Reaching and keeping tier membership is based on the number of Status Credits you earn each membership year (subject to minimum flight requirements)."


then in the fine print below (the jump link is useless for "minimum flight requirements":

You must earn the required Status Credits and travel a minimum of four eligible Qantas, QantasLink or Jetstar flights during your membership year to qualify for the next membership level.

You've basically hit a quirk with the double SC promo that the vast majority of flyers wouldn't notice - in that most folks would need more than 4 sectors to earn the 300 SC for Silver required so they'd have hit the 4 ~ (these show up on your activity statement as eligible flights for the minimum)

 

[mviy]

The best use of the DSC promo was to fly indirect. Not only do you get more qualifying sectors (can hit the 4 needed in one return trip if flying indirect on QF) you likely also get a higher SC total increasing the chances of being able to reach a higher status tier.

Assuming your trip in Feb was booked under the DSC promo and will net you 40SC including DSCs you would need to find another 60SC somehow from standard SCs on other flight(s) to get to SG. There can be some good sale fares at times.

Note: say you reached SG in June 2017 you'd have it till the end of your following membership year i.e. July 2018, so about 13 months. If you reached SG in Feb 2017 you'd have it till the end of your following membership still so you'd have a longer period of time with SG status (doesn't mean much if you're not going to fly between Feb and July though unless you're a QANTAS Club member).

 

[RichardMEL]

Very good point.

Lynne, even if you can't use status benefits during your next trip (though if your trip involves connections, the status could kick in before your return) you will still have well over a year of benefits.

if you don't fly in that time then you're not really missing out are you? It is certainly ample time to use the benefits.

I understand your disappointment at not getting Silver right now. You have the runs on the board though just a couple more flights on QF/JQ and you're there.

 

[Lynne Mangold]

I earned 480 credits for november flight and will earn 240 for the singapore flight in feb/march so that will bring it up to gold status. I will have flown 4 QF flights by ist week in march, was forgetting each trip is 2 flights. The singapore trip wasn't on any double credits. adding the loyalty bonus of 50 credits will bring it up to 770.
being my membership year resets in July 2017 will I keep the gold status until july 2018

 

[mviy]

Yes. Unless you hit 1400SC to get to WP or from August 2017 to July 2018 you hit 600 SC and at least 4 QF/JQ sectors to retain SG for another year till July 2019.

Edit: the above date range assume your year ends July 31. If it ends June 30 it would be July 2017 to June 2018 flying to possibly retain SG for another year.

 

[RichardMEL]

I earned 480 credits for november flight and will earn 240 for the singapore flight in feb/march so that will bring it up to gold status. I will have flown 4 QF flights by ist week in march, was forgetting each trip is 2 flights. The singapore trip wasn't on any double credits. adding the loyalty bonus of 50 credits will bring it up to 770.
being my membership year resets in July 2017 will I keep the gold status until july 2018

Yes, you will make it and retain Gold until July 31, 2018 based on that flying alone.

 

[Lynne Mangold]

thanks everyone for your help

 

[Himeno]

I will have flown 4 QF flights by ist week in march, was forgetting each trip is 2 flights.

It isn't 2 flights per "trip", it goes by each separate flight, as defined by sectors on the ticket, having a QF/JQ code.
I could have a return trip to Tokyo flying north on QF25 and back on JL771. That trip would only count as 1 of the 4 flights.
However, that same trip, going via SIN with QF5/QF4017/QF4018/QF6 would get all 4 needed QF flights.

 

[Lynne Mangold]

my account is showing 2 flights attained so far, this was a return flight only

 

[RichardMEL]

Correct. this is pretty clear to me from the wording they give. It's specific.

if you did a return flight, say SYD-SIN, then each way would be 1 segment.

So your next flights, assuming they are on QF or JQ will then be treated as segments.

Basically think of a segment as being with its own QF flight number.

 

[Lynne Mangold]

this is also how I read it also,

[TABLE="class: basic, width: 960"][TR="class: alt"][TD]Flight Segment[/TD][TD]A Flight Segment is travel on the same flight number between originating and destination airports as shown on your E-Ticket or Itinerary.For example, travel from Adelaide to Los Angeles with a change of flight number in Sydney would earn on both the Adelaide to Sydney and Sydney to Los Angeles Flight Segments.
Whenever your flight number changes during your trip, it will be counted as a different Flight Segment. Total earn is the sum of each Flight Segment.
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