Qantas double Status Credits offers for 2025
The countdown clock is ticking on this opportunity to supercharge your Qantas Frequent Flyer status.

Looking for the next Qantas double Status Credits offer to lock in your next year at Qantas Silver, Gold, Platinum or Platinum One status, as well as speed your progress towards Lifetime Silver, Lifetime Gold or even Lifetime Platinum membership?
It could be just weeks away, based on the pattern for previous Qantas DSC promos which deliver a double-sized serve of status credits across all domestic and international Qantas flights.
(You may also have the option to collect double Qantas Points, and there are certain conditions where double points represent better value than double status credits, as we’ll explain later.)
Qantas double Status Credits offers
There are historical patterns when Qantas unleashes each double Status Credits promotion, and these help provide a guide to the Qantas double Status Credits offers timetable for 2025:
- 2024: February, October
- 2023: March
- 2022: March, December
- 2021: March, May
- 2020: February
- 2019: February, April-May
- 2018: February, August, October
What does this mean for Qantas double Status Credits offers in 2025?
It’s almost certain we’ll see the first Qantas double Status Credits offer of 2025 in February or March.
Another historical trend is that the double Status Credits promotions are usually preceded by a massive Qantas sale, such as the current International Red Tail Sale which ends on 10 February.
(At the Executive Traveller office we’re putting our money on March, but you won’t catch us crying if Qantas hits the big red DSC button at the end of February!)
There’s also possibility of a second double Status Credits promotion towards the end of 2025, as we’ve seen in a handful of years past.
However, these additional DSC periods have sometimes been a ‘targeted’ offering in which only selected Qantas Frequent Flyer members are invited via email to participate, or apply only for specific destinations, with the aim of increasing bookings to that particular market.
Qantas double Status Credits offers in 2025
As in the past, Qantas double Status Credits promotions launch without warning and run only for a very short promotional period, usually no longer than one week – although DSC-eligible bookings made during the promotion can be many months ahead, and sometimes almost a year in advance.
The offer goes live on the Qantas website around midnight, and across that day a tsunami of emails hits the inboxes of some 15 million Qantas Frequent Flyer members.
After registering for the promotion at the Qantas website or in the Qantas app, the rush is on to make bookings within the short DSC promo period which will generate double Status Credits for almost the next year of travel.
As a quick recap:
- double Status Credits are usually limited to regional, domestic and international Qantas flights (this includes the Qantas/Finnair A330 flights on Sydney-Singapore and Sydney-Bangkok)
- double Status Credits typically don’t apply to flights on Jetstar, Emirates, Oneworld airlines or other codeshare partner airlines
- additionally, those extra status credits do not count towards triggering the Loyalty Bonus, the Platinum or Platinum One Bonus Rewards, or the Qantas Tier Accelerator challenge
Mapping out your Qantas double Status Credit strategy
With barely a week to book flights almost a year in advance, you’ll want to simultaneously plan ahead and get cracking – especially before the lowest fares on popular routes and during peak travel periods are sold out.
To map a quick Qantas double Status Credits strategy, ask yourself these three key questions:
- How many status credits do I currently have?
- What status milestone do I want to reach?
- Is that level of status really going to be useful for me?
The last question is particularly relevant.
There’s no sense chasing the lofty goal of Qantas Platinum One if your needs will generally be met by Platinum; in fact, for many domestic-only flyers who only do the odd international trip, Qantas Gold will suffice.
Work out how many status credits are required to get from your current status to the tier you want (taking into account your ability to collect double Status Credits, of course).
Qantas has a handy calculator to determine the number of status credits earned per flight, based on your fare type.
Set your status credits goal
Knowing the status credit requirements of each Qantas Frequent Flyer tier not only gives you a goal to work towards but help you work out exactly how many flights are needed.
Qantas Silver: to earn Silver status for the first time, you need 300 status credits, and 250 status credits to remain Silver once you already have it.
Silver is not an overly useful tier, because the main benefits are just two Qantas Club lounge invitations and use of 'premium' check-in counters.
Qantas Gold: you need 700 status credits to earn Gold status and 600 status credits to keep it.
Gold is often thought of as the 'sweet spot' because it gives you lounge access across Qantas and Oneworld airlines along with Emirates, plus the use of premium security lanes and priority boarding.
Qantas Platinum: you need 1,400 status credits to earn Platinum status and 1,200 status credits to keep Platinum status.
This gives you access to Qantas' domestic business class lounges and the international first class lounges of Qantas and Oneworld airlines, along with Emirates.
Qantas Platinum One: Platinum One is the highest level of the Qantas Frequent Flyer program. You need 3,600 status credits to earn or keep Platinum One, of which 2,700 need to be earned on 'Qantas marketed flights'.
Platinum One members can also give free Platinum status to their partner, receive two invitations to the Qantas first class lounge to give to a family member or friend, get free 'fly ahead' access to earlier domestic flights, and have any available seat converted into a points-based 'award seat'.
Platinum Ones also tend to get the best attention from Qantas when flights are delayed or cancelled.
Rebooking for double Status Credits
If you’re sitting on a Qantas booking made before the promotion begins, can you rebook it in order to collect twice as many Status Credits?
That’s what some frequent flyers do: they cancel the original booking and rebook the trip under the double Status Credits offer.
Of course, this makes sense only if there’s no cancellation or rebooking fee, and the replacement double Status Credits trip is available for around the same price.
Why would you choose double Qantas Points?
Qantas offers a choice between double Status Credits and Double Points, and there are some instances where you might decide to opt for double Qantas Points on your bookings.
Perhaps you’re not close to jumping from one status tier to the next, even with the help of a couple of double status credit bookings.
Maybe you’re simply not in the position to book enough flights to get you across the line to that next status tier.
In both cases you might decide it’s better to pocket that double helping of Qantas Points to use on bookings or upgrades at any time in the future.
After all, there’s no benefit to being ‘Silver and a half’ or ‘Gold and a half’, and it makes more sense to hoover up Qantas Points which you can use rather than Status Credits you can’t use.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
18 Jan 2017
Total posts 28
Emirates just had a double status credit offer late in January
Virgin Australia - Velocity Rewards
24 Jan 2018
Total posts 780
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Etihad - Etihad Guest
09 Jun 2019
Total posts 13
Do the double status credits apply to QF flights booked through a travel agent, or do they have to be booked direct with Qantas?
20 Nov 2015
Total posts 501
In the past, DSC offers have always applied to any flight booked on a Qantas plane, regardless of if it's booked through the app or the Qantas website or a travel agent. The only thing you have to do is to register for the DSC offer before you make the booking. I've also heard some people say it's best to not make bookings until later in the first day of the offer, for something to do with GMT, but I don't recall the details. Maybe somebody here can advise on that, and what might happen if you book at say 6am instead of 6pm on the first day?
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
16 Jan 2018
Total posts 60
I suppose it depends on the rules that will be published, if the DSC is indeed happening.
Though I doubt if DSC will happen this year as airlines lately seem to want to reduce the number of their elite flyers.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
01 Mar 2013
Total posts 172
Quick question for the brains trust.
In the last DSC you needed to ensure you booked a QF ticket on QF metal, not, for example AA with a QF Ticket.
Is this everyone else's understanding?
20 Nov 2015
Total posts 501
Yes that's right, it's been this way for quite a few DSC offers now, it has to be 'Qantas metal' with the exception of those Singapore & Bangkok flights which use a leased Finnair jet. A few years ago I think the DSC offers sometimes included Emirates flights but lately it's only been 'Qantas tickets on Qantas metal' as you say.
American Airlines - AAdvantage
13 Jul 2015
Total posts 275
I started with Gold a few years ago when I was able to use Emirates Biz to jump start my Gold, it's not as easy these days.
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