Thank you for your loyalty

[DC3]

Mine arrived

 

[Greg555]

I sent Qantas some feedback to say the bonus status credits are of zero value unless I have the option of getting them in the next membership year. Let’s see if I get a reply.

Did the same....crickets

 

[Greg555]

Opened my Qantas acount this morning to a pop up that congratulated me for retaining Gold...... In fact i reached this level months ago - Qantas are trying to gaslight me that the worthless 80 SC "loyalty" gift actually acheived something.
I'll say it again - a SC gift for those that are close to end of membership year and have already acheived status for next year, IS OF NO VALUE WHATSOEVER....
I showed MY loyalty Qantas - and you Qantas, have shown the exact opposite.....

 

[RooFlyer]

I showed MY loyalty Qantas - and you Qantas, have shown the exact opposite.....

Good Lord. That’s nothing new. Showing loyalty to an airline especially with Qantas is a waste of time & effort and especially a waste of money.

reading here how they have ballsed up the ‘loyalty gift’ thing only underlines that.

 

[mviy]

QF’s gift of 150 SC that don’t count to LTSC shows they don’t care about my loyalty when a cursory look at my activity and bookings would show it would be of no use to me

I intend to continue to progress towards LTG and then as the LTP target is ridiculous I’ll likely start flying other airlines more internationally at least.

QF playing with changing the goalposts would make going for LTP very risky even if the LTSC required for it was not ridiculous.

 

[Flyingwombat]

My 40 SC gift has landed along with my 5,000 points for Point Club+... very happy as my membership year ends August so at least I now have 140 SCs to start the new year with!

And the 40 gift SCs are showing on my lifetime tally.

 

[Aeryn]

And the 40 gift SCs are showing on my lifetime tally.

Interesting, unfortunately its certainly not the case for me. My Lifetime excludes the 150 gifted and only includes the 20 earned by flying before this gift was announced.

I wonder if they applied a change overnight so it hasn't fixed things for the WP and above who got their gifts on 2&3rd Sept; but is working for those who received from today?

 

[dairyfloss]

My 40 SC gift has landed along with my 5,000 points for Point Club+... very happy as my membership year ends August so at least I now have 140 SCs to start the new year with!

And the 40 gift SCs are showing on my lifetime tally.
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My tally also shows similar, in that 200SCs have been 'Earned this year' (the sum of a Loyalty Bonus of 50 SCs which was carried over, and the 150 SCs loyalty Thank You gift at the WP level... plus I have a PC+ 100 SC rollover), however the Lifetime Status Credits total does NOT reflect the 150 SCs that were gifted; only the 50 SCs from the loyalty bonus. I track lifetime SCs separately offline, so can confirm this is the case. I expect that yours will be the same; the 40 SCs shown in Earned this year didn't count to LT status. You would have been at 8,514 total even before they were added.

 

[justinbrett]

My 40 SC gift has landed along with my 5,000 points for Point Club+... very happy as my membership year ends August so at least I now have 140 SCs to start the new year with!

And the 40 gift SCs are showing on my lifetime tally.
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You'll probably find that the already earned tally has been reduced by 40.

 

[Flyingwombat]

You'll probably find that the already earned tally has been reduced by 40.

Oh no that sucks. I honestly can't remember how much I had before... The "gift" dropped on 3/9 into account and is dated 1/9 along with the 5000 points club plus extras...

Although the 100 PC+ status rollover doesn't show this way? But I guess due to it being a rollover and not new SCs? Gosh, they make loyalty way more complicated than it should be.

I'm so far off LTG anyway and with my corporate travelling days gone, I'm not going make it I don't reckon. Now I'm paying, it will be things like Saudia business class, Philippines or China Airlines premium for me in the future!

 

[dairyfloss]

Oh no that sucks. I honestly can't remember how much I had before... The "gift" dropped on 3/9 into account and is dated 1/9 along with the 5000 points club plus extras...

Although the 100 PC+ status rollover doesn't show this way? But I guess due to it being a rollover and not new SCs? Gosh, they make loyalty way more complicated than it should be.

I'm so far off LTG anyway and with my corporate travelling days gone, I'm not going make it I don't reckon. Now I'm paying, it will be things like Saudia business class, Philippines or China Airlines premium for me in the future!

Correct on the PC+ rollover - it's not considered 'Earned this year', and doesn't ever show in that LT view (except in the previous year when they were actually earned!). The rollover goes towards your current year status chase, but nothing else.

 

[QF_Flyer]

My tally also shows similar, in that 200SCs have been 'Earned this year' (the sum of a Loyalty Bonus of 50 SCs which was carried over, and the 150 SCs loyalty Thank You gift at the WP level... plus I have a PC+ 100 SC rollover), however the Lifetime Status Credits total does NOT reflect the 150 SCs that were gifted; only the 50 SCs from the loyalty bonus. I track lifetime SCs separately offline, so can confirm this is the case. I expect that yours will be the same; the 40 SCs shown in Earned this year didn't count to LT status. You would have been at 8,514 total even before they were added.

Same boat - the counter indicates that the 150 I was gifted counts towards LT (i.e. the total showing is 100 less than my current count, which is the 100 rollover for PC+). However, the "Already Earned" is now 150 less than it was before (I also keep a record of these offline).

 

[AFrequentFlyer]

Same boat - the counter indicates that the 150 I was gifted counts towards LT (i.e. the total showing is 100 less than my current count, which is the 100 rollover for PC+). However, the "Already Earned" is now 150 less than it was before (I also keep a record of these offline).

I've taken inspiration from you and the others in this thread to begin keeping a record offline too. I just don't trust the way those numbers add up sometimes.

 

[justinbrett]

I strangely received the 300 bonus SCs last night, but my total didn't reflect a change. This morning after a flight and the credits for that flight being added did the total increase.

Well reported website bug that the balance wasn’t updating. QF systems have the correct amount, and as you found out, the problem will rectify itself eventually.

Mine has been reduced by 150, and the earned this year 150 more than I have otherwise earned.

I almost wonder if there's enough gaslighting going on to warrant a formal complaint to Qantas - "sneakily" reducing your already earned total to make it look like the thank you credits did count towards the bonus.

There is also a promise on the lifetime page that "your status credits reset each year but never totally disappear" - no asterisk, if buts or maybes.

In comparison, points club plus rollover SCs never hit the yearly total at all - and should be how they apply here, if they're not intended to apply to lifetime.

To be fair QF said all along they won’t count for lifetime status.

There may be some quirks in the way the website presents the data but you’re no worse off.

 

[Aeryn]

There may be some quirks in the way the website presents the data but you’re no worse off.

Its downright misleading to reduce my start of year position, I earnt those 150SCs last FF year.

Very lazy programming and completely unnecessary given they already have other ways to flag non-contributing SCs without diminishing prior year earn.

 

[Pushka]

Its downright misleading to reduce my start of year position, I earnt those 150SCs last FF year.

Very lazy programming and completely unnecessary given they already have other ways to flag non-contributing SCs without diminishing prior year earn.

It's for 18 months of activity though. Anyway. No sign of mine.

 

[RSD]

Oh no that sucks. I honestly can't remember how much I had before... The "gift" dropped on 3/9 into account and is dated 1/9 along with the 5000 points club plus extras...

Although the 100 PC+ status rollover doesn't show this way? But I guess due to it being a rollover and not new SCs? Gosh, they make loyalty way more complicated than it should be.

I'm so far off LTG anyway and with my corporate travelling days gone, I'm not going make it I don't reckon. Now I'm paying, it will be things like Saudia business class, Philippines or China Airlines premium for me in the future!

Do they still allow smoking on Saudia?

 

[dairyfloss]

Do they still allow smoking on Saudia?

Only if you can get yourself back to 2002

 

[Aeryn]

Ive lodged a complaint via the online form not that they ever read those

I got a reply basically saying bad luck they are points from flying even though everyone know points clubs is for non-flyers. Disappointing but not unexpected.

 

[elanshin]

I've booked a few DSC for next year's retention. The loyalty bonus has basically just let me stop forward booking the rest of my flights for the status year during this DSC. I might go book VA flights if they drop triple SC


I'm at ~1000 now with 6month to go and no plans for P1. Have 130 SC booked still to fly in my OWA. Funnily I've still yet to hit my 500 loyalty bonus this year.