Double Status Credit Offer for Qantas Business Rewards Members (October 2025)

Qantas launched a new double status credits offer today. This one is exclusively for members of Qantas Business Rewards, the loyalty program for small-to-medium Australian businesses that sits alongside Qantas Frequent Flyer.

Who can take advantage of this offer?

Qantas emailed Qantas Business Rewards members today with a link to register for this offer. It also appears on the Qantas Business Rewards homepage, so it’s open to all Business Rewards members – not just a targeted subset.

Even businesses that join Qantas Business Rewards during the promotion period are eligible. Qantas will automatically register new accounts created during this offer period to earn double status credits.

The main criteria to Qantas Business Rewards membership is to hold an active Australian Business Number (ABN). There’s normally an $89.50 joining fee, but Qantas is currently waiving this. You can also join for free using one of several “free join” links.

How to register and book to earn double status credits

To take advantage of this offer, the business would first need to register on the Qantas Business Rewards website, or by clicking the link in the email from Qantas.

The booking window for this promotion runs from 23 to 29 October 2025. The flyer will earn double status credits for eligible Qantas flights taken between 30 October 2025 and 11 October 2026, provided they quote the registered business’ ABN with their booking.

Eligible flights are those operated by Qantas with a QF flight number. This also includes QantasLink subsidiaries and Finnair wet lease flights to/from Singapore and Bangkok.

Staff members can book directly on the Qantas website by including the business’ ABN in the booking, via the Qantas Business Rewards booking portal, or through a travel agent.

Interestingly, the business itself doesn’t get any benefits or kickbacks from this offer. The double status credits go straight into the accounts of staff who take eligible flights. This differs from many other Business Rewards promotions which focus more on additional frequent flyer points that the business can earn in addition to staff members’ own point earning from flying.

This FAQs page on the Qantas website with more information about this offer. That page does not specifically state whether the status credits earned from this promotion will count towards lifetime status, so we assume they would.

How Qantas double status credit offers work

As many AFF readers likely already know, frequent flyer programs effectively each have two “currencies”.

There’s the frequent flyer points you earn for booking travel, shopping with retail partners, using co-branded credit cards and other day-to-activities. These points can be put towards future flights, upgrades or buying things like toasters from Qantas Marketplace.

Members can earn status credits in addition to frequent flyer points when flying. Qantas recently introduced ways to earn status credits on the ground as well, while Velocity lets its members supplement their status credits by shopping at Coles and with selected credit cards.

Your status credit balance accumulates over your membership year. This determines your frequent flyer status tier, allowing you to upgrade from Bronze all the way up to Platinum One. Higher status confers increasingly generous perks and benefits designed to reward the airline’s most loyal flyers.

Double status credit offers come around periodically and provide an excellent way to accelerate your status credit earn. As the name suggests, any flights booked during a double status credit offer earn twice the usual number of status credits. On a basic one way Economy Red e-Deal fare from Sydney to Melbourne, for example, you can earn 20 instead of 10 status credits. 

Taking a more creative Qantas status run such as a Business Class return trip from Gold Coast to Auckland via Melbourne will earn 560 status credits during double status promotions, in the Business Sale fare category, instead of the usual 280. This gets you pretty close to the 700 status credits needed to earn Gold, or 600 to retain it.

This AFF article from earlier in the year summarises how to take advantage of a regular double status credits offer.

Qantas has been generous with bonus status credits lately

It’s only been two months since Qantas ran its last public double status credits offer. Over the past couple of months, Qantas has also gifted frequent flyers with extra status credits, as well as launching a campaign allowing members to earn status credits on the ground.

Some AFF members wonder if Qantas might be worried about losing a large number of once-loyal frequent flyers who are on track to lose their current status. Others speculate that this latest offer is a direct response to Virgin Australia Business Flyer trying to court businesses away from Qantas with offers such as complimentary Velocity Platinum status.