Qantas Lifetime Platinum Frequent Flyer Guide

After many years loyal to Qantas and countless hours flying, Lifetime Platinum is the top of the loyalty tree.

By Staff Writers, August 4 2020
Qantas Lifetime Platinum Frequent Flyer Guide

Qantas is one of only a handful of airlines offering lifetime membership at their top-tier frequent flyer level, alongside Oneworld partners British Airways and Finnair. 

But that lifetime of Platinum perks such as access to first class lounges doesn’t come easy. The Red Roo has set the bar at a stratospheric 75,000 status credits earned across the life of your Qantas Frequent Flyer membership.

In other words, Qantas Lifetime Platinum will be hard-earned – as befits what the airline positions as "the ultimate recognition" for its most loyal passengers, who arguably spend more time in Qantas' airport lounges and cabins than their own lounge rooms.

How to earn Qantas Lifetime Platinum status

To pocket a Qantas Lifetime Platinum card, you'll need to ratchet up a massive total of 75,000 lifetime status credits throughout your Qantas Frequent Flyer membership. Make no mistake, that's a lot of flying.

Lifetime Platinum status is really only possible for those who fly exclusively in business class or higher.
Lifetime Platinum status is really only possible for those who fly exclusively in business class or higher.

It’s the equivalent of 938 business class return trips between Sydney and Melbourne; 300 return business class treks between Sydney and Singapore; or almost 130 business class return trips between Sydney and London: over 6,000 bum-numbing hours in the air.

Comparing it to Qantas’ two other lifetime status programs; it's more than ten times the threshold for Lifetime Silver, and almost six times that of Lifetime Gold. If you’ve earned it, you’ve really earned it.

Keep in mind, however, that Loyalty Bonus and Double Status Credit promotions do count towards your Lifetime Platinum tally, meaning that with a bit of help and booking at the right time, seriously high flyers might actually have a realistic chance of locking away one of these lifetime memberships.

Extra perks for Lifetime Platinum members

Qantas Lifetime Platinum perks mirror those of year-by-year Platinum status holders, including access to Qantas International First Lounges, double Qantas Points on flights, priority check in and Oneworld Emerald status, albeit without the annual status renewal.

Platinum frequent flyers are regulars at Qantas lounges around the world.
Platinum frequent flyers are regulars at Qantas lounges around the world.

On top of that, however, Qantas’ top-tier lifetime status comes with perks, service and recognition above and beyond standard Qantas Frequent Flyer Platinum, rolled into a secret set of "unpublished benefits" - such as the ability to open up award seats.

Is it worth aiming for Qantas Lifetime Platinum?

With such a high number of Status Credits needed to achieve Lifetime Platinum after you’ve hit the 14,000 needed for Lifetime Gold, it's worth pausing to consider where you go next after achieving what is already a highly useful status.

Lifetime Platinum is virtually unreachable for all but the most regular of high flyers.
Lifetime Platinum is virtually unreachable for all but the most regular of high flyers.

Our shiny solution is to chase Lifetime Gold status in British Airways’ Executive Club (BAEC) which is, for now, the closest thing you can get to lifetime Qantas Platinum.

You'll earn BAEC frequent flyer points (which BA calls Avios) on services with British Airways flight numbers, including codeshare services, such as Qantas flights in and from Australia; around the USA with American Airlines and with other Oneworld partners.

The magic number for benefits similar to Qantas Platinum is 35,000 BAEC tier points, which equates with Oneworld Emerald status.

How many tier points you’ll earn depends on both the fare you’ve paid and how far you’re flying. 

Benefits similar to Qantas Platinum can be enjoyed by retaining Oneworld Emerald status.
Benefits similar to Qantas Platinum can be enjoyed by retaining Oneworld Emerald status.

Seventy-three return business class trips from Sydney to London, for example, will get you that much-awaited Lifetime Oneworld Emerald card, and that’s assuming you don’t travel anywhere else.

That’s basically eight trips each year for 10 years, which isn’t out of reach for some – and when you combine other domestic and international travel, the wait is shorter still.

Mixing in domestic connections from Melbourne or Brisbane to Sydney at the start and end of those journeys reduces the climb to 63 return trips: shedding two years off your wait for a lifetime of Platinum-grade luxury.

That said, you won't get all the benefits of Qantas Platinum status, such as those extra points or priority on upgrades – but you'll enjoy what we consider to be 'core travel perks' such as airport lounge access, priority check in and a more generous checked baggage allowance.

There’s no doubt that Lifetime Platinum status is one for the seriously heavy-hitters of the Qantas frequent flyer program, and while the 75,000 Status Credits don’t necessarily need to come from flying, reaching that threshold would still require an enormous amount of spend with Qantas - making the lifetime Gold status with the British Airways Executive Club program a much more enticing alternative.

05 May 2016

Total posts 631

Over double what’s needed for the BA equivalent. 35k-45k LTSC would have been a reasonable tally.


Would need to know what the “unpublished benefits” and what value they provide to even consider chasing it (unlikely to chase it even then at that ridiculous tally).

They could have set a lower LTSC requirement but insisted on a high proportion being flown on QF flights.

I agree, might as well go chase BA's equivalent

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

01 Mar 2013

Total posts 169

Whoa, 75,000 Status Credits! I'm still catching my breath....

Etihad - Etihad Guest

06 Apr 2012

Total posts 123

As one of the benefits of acheiving Lifetime Platinum, I think they should name a plane after you.

29 Jan 2012

Total posts 163

That is also approx. $1.200.000 in airfares!!!!!!!!

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

25 Aug 2016

Total posts 13

So you have to be Platinum One for more than 20 years to get it? That is crazy. Only 15 more years to go!

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

26 May 2014

Total posts 470

Or Platinum for some 60 years!

Qantas

19 Apr 2012

Total posts 1425

It seems this is lifetime P1 to be more accurate. It took me 20 years to get Lifetime Gold and it seems 20years at P1 to get the shiny badge.

02 Nov 2017

Total posts 35

You would be much better off moving to BAEC to chase LTP there as soon as you hit LTG with QF if you're the person who would go after something like this. 75k total status credits vs 14k + ~30k...


As a benefit, it would also save you from putting all of your lifetime status eggs into one basket.

QF

03 Jul 2015

Total posts 21

Looks like I qualify, but maybe not if double staus points are removed.

TJS
TJS

14 Jun 2018

Total posts 12

The best part of this article is that there is no change to the existing life time gold and silver status. I’m about 6 months away from life time gold and was very worried.

29 Aug 2017

Total posts 1

So, if you're lucky you get your "life time platinum card" at age 80 (after 50 years of earning 1500SC/yr).


I guess it's still a 'lifetime' card, even if you've only got a few more months to use it.

Maybe one of the unpublished perks is a luxe wheel chair service or something.

/s

Etihad - Etihad Guest

26 Jul 2017

Total posts 5

Yep, typical Qantas under current management! They have for years watered down and diluted the value of being QFF, from ramping up points needed for flights and upgrades to making it harder to actually use them, now lifting the bar to stratospheric heights for lifetime platinum. It is clear to me what Qantas is telling it’s loyal customer base, there is better value elsewhere in the Oneworld network. I woke up years ago and now rarely travel Qantas after doing the number. GLTA

Emirates Airlines - Skywards

20 Jan 2018

Total posts 37

Agree completely. And congratulations in dropping the hot spud qantas! I left 20 years ago and I've never regretted it.


What I do not understand is why there are so many mugs who stick with the Q despite being increasingly beaten about the head. Masochism perhaps?

Wow! 75k! I just checked … after 28 years I have 30k and LTG from when it was launched. But, no way does this motivate me at all. Maybe time to see what SQ program feels like again. BAEC sounds like a smart move also.

JBH
JBH

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

01 May 2012

Total posts 121

75,000 is an incredible 'enhancement'.

14 Nov 2015

Total posts 41

So if you make platinum for 50 years, they’ll let you keep it (for however long you happen to have left).


How nice of them.

Assuming of course, that there are no further changes over the next 50 years...

04 Dec 2013

Total posts 156

Yes, this is unrealistic for 99% of even the most frequent flyers. But as for storming off in a huff as some seem prepared to do - come on guys, this is something new. It's not as if they're "enhancing" an existing benefit...

Etihad - Etihad Guest

26 Apr 2019

Total posts 7

Consider my gob well and truly smacked. I'm not the most traveled person on earth, but I travel a fair bit, typically up the front of the bus and have been doing so for 20 plus years. I have approx 21k status credits to show for all of that. 75k required? Not in my lifetime.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

28 Oct 2011

Total posts 469

The whole point of LTP is that it is supposed to be attainable by only a very few - that's the whole point of the exclusivity of it.


I'm surprised the thresholds for the various levels weren't increased - something has to be done about the overcrowding of lounges. As some have said - when almost everyone is an elite, then no-one is!

British Airways - Executive Club

28 Mar 2014

Total posts 72

Lounge overcrowding isn't just QF elites: it's the other ow elites taking the space!

20 Jan 2017

Total posts 46

Gees you'd be hoping DSC promotion counts towards the 75k target.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

09 Jun 2017

Total posts 41

Based on the price of a QF9/10 return in August you would be looking at a $1.5m to get to LTP. I would hope that the 'unpublished benefits' extend beyond a golf club membership, the odd bottle of vino and an iPad case. I have been in the system for 29 years and am a third of the way to LTP, so just another 58 years of QF loyalty to go!

05 Dec 2018

Total posts 144

Wow in the long run just cheaper to fly business/first with cash on the airline you want.

Getting 75000 only financially viable via allot of work payed travel.

Gold for life seems like the sweet spot.



Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

20 Feb 2019

Total posts 1

With such a high target I can't imagine much of a return to make it worth it being by the time you hit it your air travel declines as does your mobility and joy of flying. Also, the only thing I don't like about Qantas is other frequent flyers and the entitlement the program has created. They've just set a new rod for their own back, waiting for my eyes to roll out of my head when the next demand starts with "I'm a lifetime platinum, so I should get my shoes polished on board" or whatever

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

20 Jun 2019

Total posts 1

I heard Qantas youngest Platinum One Member was 12 years old, so if they keep that up they could be lifetime Platinum by their early 30s.

04 Apr 2012

Total posts 11

I was somewhat excited when I saw the headline as I, foolishly, thought it would be something like 28,000 credits. That seems fair considering that would be around 20 years of Platinum. My reaction to the number is similar to this scene from Austin Powers.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qy5Hn43V9A

Etihad - Etihad Guest

20 Jun 2019

Total posts 3

Qantas only look after their interest obviously, look at their massive profit 370 millions just for FF Program. They don't care about their loyal customers that are spending a lot of money using QF. You can't even find buss class availability let alone 1st class to use that many points in your QF account. If you have a chance lock your points to SQ or EK to get FF flights.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

28 Oct 2011

Total posts 469

The whole point of today's announcement is that there will be a sizeable increase in the number of awards seats in F, J and W.

25 Oct 2010

Total posts 26

I have been platinum on Qantas for 16 of the last 19 years. I have 20k lifetime status credits. To get to lifetime platinum I would need to keep up my average Qantas travel for another 50 odd years. I look forward to getting a 100th birthday letter from the Queen and a life time Plat letter from Qantas on the same day.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

01 Apr 2018

Total posts 1

Lifetime to Qantas doesn't even mean much. My parents are about to lose their lifetime Qantas Club membership.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

28 Oct 2011

Total posts 469

Huh? What do you mean?

13 Jan 2017

Total posts 2

I don’t know what mabsi means, but my lifetime QANTAS club membership has an expiry at age 80!

British Airways - Executive Club

28 Mar 2014

Total posts 72

Maybe mabsi's parents are approaching their 80th birthdays...?

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

01 Dec 2011

Total posts 11

My Lifetime QANTAS Club runs out in 2065, I will be 123 then.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

08 Mar 2017

Total posts 16

I have avoided the general criticism of Qantas as there are always good and bad days when you travel. Overall I have been very happy with the airline.

75,000 status points is simply offensive. If you flew this much you would be on first name basis with most of the Qantas crew. The chances of reaching this stage is so far out of reach for even the most frequent of flyers, Qantas is basically raising a middle finger to their most loyal customers.
Definitely time to look at the alternatives.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

28 Oct 2011

Total posts 469

Actually they reckon there could be 100+ people already in this category. LTG is the 'reward' for extended loyalty. LTP is intended to be available only to a very few.

25 Oct 2010

Total posts 26

Which then begs this question - if it is for such a small number of people (say 100), all of whom know who they are and are already known to almost everyone at QF, then why announce it as a thing? Why not just call those 100 and invited them into a secret club? Why announce a program that is only going to be of interest to the top 1% of the top 1% and in unlikely to change the travel behaviour or anyone?

02 Jul 2017

Total posts 12

And there is the folly of the matter. Ignoring the ridiculous qualifier, unlike P1, it could be achieved by majority travel on a partner airline. A 5 year P1 may well have spent far more with Qantas than a freshly minted LTP. The premise of loyalty thereby down the gurgler. Forget the rhetoric from the QF spin doctors who only believe their own BS on account of their intellectual limitations, this is self serving.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

16 Nov 2016

Total posts 24

Wow, talking about goals! 62.5 years if keep earning on average 1,200 SC p.a., plus my age, that's truly a lifetime!

28 Sep 2016

Total posts 4

Wow 75,000. I would have thought maybe 50,000 would have been a more realistic target. I will be interested to understand more of the "enhancements" but from my brief overlook it may encourage some of the more loyal QANATS flyers to hit say Platinum or Platinum One then spread the love a bit and end up enjoying Elite level in two programs. I will be very interested to see what other "enhancements" are made.

28 Sep 2016

Total posts 4

Are the Stauts credits earned on partner airlines included in this calculationi.e. BA Cathy etc etc??

08 Jan 2012

Total posts 9

I also find this totally offensive. After almost 20 years of Platinum I have just over 40,000 status credits. This means that it would take me over 37 years of EXTREME loyalty to reach LTP. Ludicrous target for all but the few who enjoy company paid business class travel.

02 Jul 2017

Total posts 12

Coventrys - let me tell you, that doesn't anywhere near cut it with 4 - 5 Eu return p/a.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

31 Jan 2016

Total posts 91

May have to change religions and become a Buddhist for some re-incarnation therapy, and enable another couple of lifetimes so I can qualify. It may be easier, in the long run... ;)

04 Sep 2018

Total posts 1

I think they need to concentrate in getting basics right. This afternoon my Qantas flight was cancelled (I understand these things happen). I called up to discuss the text messages I received and the message on the phone indicated there would be a 2 hour wait time to speak with someone.

23 Feb 2016

Total posts 2

In some ways i'm appreciative to Qantas for the move. I'd continued to be loyal post achieving life-time gold and years of plat and plat one on the possibility that lifetime plat would be announced. My loyalty, however, was based on the idea it would be reasonable - ideally 28k SCs or maybe 42k. But with 75k thats now released me to enjoy other airlines. I will of course still fly qantas, just not esuring i fly qantas. Thank you Qantas!

17 Feb 2017

Total posts 17

Well said jasmine, my sentiments exactly. My Qantas loyalty handcuffs have now been removed. I reached Lifetime Gold some years ago now and I too will still fly Qantas but I will now explore other airlines and fly with the others much more often. My 5 years as P1 and many other years of Platinum don't seem to mean all that much to Qantas.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

15 May 2019

Total posts 31

Yeah, I reckon both comments above are spot on. I’ll be chasing status elsewhere internationally having hit LTG a few years ago in my late-20s.


At least I know I’ll be able to get the standard suite of benefits when I fly domestically from LTG and the unrealistic LTP goal frees me up to to chase elite status with airlines that have better networks and hard products internationally like SQ/EK/EY.

I’m sure they modelled this to death but 75K is just not a credible reach goal and I can’t imagine it will incentivise anyone who’s not already crusted onto QF really hard to keep their business with QF.

I do 3-4,000 SCs p/y with them at the moment and I’m in my early 30s. There’s no way I’m doubling down to chase LTP. Maybe at 50K but not 75K, and certainly not when the trend in QF’s service proposition is towards a flattening of tier benefits (e.g. one class lounges in key international ports and similar boarding, baggage and queue benefits). You never see white signs anywhere on the QF network these days, not even on marquee pairings like the Kangaroo Leg - just black ones with an essay-length list of eligible tiers. It’s also quite clear that QF isn’t investing in First anymore (e.g. light touch A380 First refurb in the face of SQ, EK and EY’s recent great hard product offerings). Why chase LTP on an airline that’s not committed to a true Platinum offering?

Like much of QF’s recent strategy, this reads like a data-driven decision that wasn’t road tested or thought through properly from a customer experience perspective. BCG may have won on the Jetstar call and its credit card awards work is clearly playing dividends but screwing up the core status proposition is a great way to kill the goose that’s laying the golden eggs.

02 Jul 2017

Total posts 12

It could prove to be an own goal.

This is a REAL slap in the face, I have spend 20 years flying Qantas (most weeks), a mix of mainly domestic and some international, I have been a Plat FF for 15 years, 2 of those were a Plat One FF status, to only have "earned" 33,000 status credits. Unless you are flying flexi business to and from the US/EU every month (for many years), its practical impossible to attain this level. 75k is ridiculous, no incentive there for me, zero....it needs a rethink, and for what real benefit?

Jetstar Airways - Qantas Frequent Flyer

13 Jul 2016

Total posts 12

I have continually been a Platinum FF for the last 15 or so years, normally do 3 or 4 or business trip to Europe / USA a year and only have 36k lifetime status credits, looks like I need to keep flying till I'm at least 80 yrs old. A little disappointed they went so high at 75k, my colleagues I work with that are members of other schemes....are already Lifetime in their top tiers

Jetstar Airways - Qantas Frequent Flyer

13 Jul 2016

Total posts 12

You would think after being a QF Platinum FF for 20 years consecutively you would qualify as a lifetime member, no they expect you need to be one for 40 years.....disappointed

10 Mar 2011

Total posts 527

Now if Qantas had allowed Status Credit transfers to family, it might be more doable!

Etihad - Etihad Guest

17 Jun 2019

Total posts 3

Perhaps Qantas should adjust the program to be 75,000 SC for Lifetime "Platinum One", and then some lower figure for Lifetime Platinum.

01 Apr 2014

Total posts 116

If they want to thin the herd in the lounges etc, perhaps they should have increased LTG to say 20k and had LTP at say 40k, but 75k is cringeworthy.

Up to 15% increase for premium cabin redemptions is not unreasonable when offset by (supposedly) more seat availability though. As somebody who only travels F longhaul, these changes have only pushed me away to other airlines whilst I run down my QFF balance. Just booked my next LHR with SQ after reading this. In SQ nice F Suites for $13,948 (and only $130 if I need to cancel), compared to QF at $17,026 on an arguably inferior product...…. an easy decision, see ya QF and hello SQ.

02 Jul 2017

Total posts 12

I wonder if the Irishman will see the irony in this. QF is in the "destined to fail" quadrant with a more expensive, inferior product. Just checked a QR (again best J product globally) AU- Frankfurt Nov $5325. QF +$2k.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

26 May 2014

Total posts 470

Disappointed that my QFF account doesn't already tell me how many SCs required to attain Life P. More disappointed about the target.

Jetstar Airways - Qantas Frequent Flyer

13 Jul 2016

Total posts 12

You can find your lifetime SC so far on your Qantas FF webpage

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

26 May 2014

Total posts 470

Yes, but will they add "You need x status credits to achieve Lifetime Platinum", where x is a ridiculous number. (I am already LTG)

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

13 Sep 2013

Total posts 6

I hope VA is reading this. Maybe a lifetime ANYTHING would be a good start


Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

26 May 2014

Total posts 470

I think I have a good chance of out living VA

Etihad - Etihad Guest

10 Apr 2019

Total posts 4

That's ridiculous, If you started today you would need to retain retarded platinum one for the next 21 years before reaching lifetime platinum. But for most people at 1500 a year would take you 42 years, To keep a job for 40 years that kept you at the basic platinum level is a long shot. So, in a nutshell, most people will acchive this in their 90's and who;s flying in their 90's. If I was a regular platnum freqent flyer I would feel like I just had a slap in the face.

Etihad - Etihad Guest

10 Apr 2019

Total posts 4

Sorry it will take 31 years not 42

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

28 Oct 2011

Total posts 469

It's not intended for your average Plat flyer - LTG is the lifetime reward for them. This is clearly intended for a very small number of people at the very upper end of QF's client base - basically the same sort of people who may well now be Platinum One and who spend a very large sum of money with QF over a lifetime. This is to cover those people in retirement.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

20 Aug 2018

Total posts 2

John - you seem like a Qantas employee, or someone that works for their PR agency based on you posting the same message over and over - nothing like staying on message!!


Fact remains - BA offer lifetime Gold (One World Emerald - equivalent to to Platinum on Qantas), and it only takes 35,000 tier points (BA’s status credits). You need 1500 tier points to attain BA Gold (again for those not familiar - One World Emerald status - same as Qantas FF Platinum), so it would ONLY take 23 years to achieve that level on BA - compared to 63 years of you simply meet QFF Platinum status. As someone has said it is NOT accurate or truthful for QFF to claim this is Lifetime Platinum - 63 years of needing to obtain Platinum means if you managed to do that from the age of 18 - you’d only get to get Lifetime Platinum at the age of 81, not much time left to enjoy the benefits.

As for your repeated message about overcrowding, the UK has 4x+ the population of Australia - BA must have far more top tier customers - and how do they manage where Qantas can’t?


02 Jul 2017

Total posts 12

But the spend doesn't need to be with QF. This is where the strategy fails. I fly JAL or AY to certain EU destinations frequently and receive the same SC allocation as if I had travelled QF. Spending not one $ with QF, I have the same opportunity as a rusted on QF file. One for the strategic d Einsteins not.

02 Jul 2017

Total posts 12

Neglected to mention also, for considerably less money and better hard and soft product.

John, other than the already available "entitlements" available to FF Plat One or Plat, what else does a Lifetime Plat Flyer receive? Nothing right?

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

31 Jan 2018

Total posts 3

I have a confession - I think I am a target for this change. I have over 50k lifetime QF SC, and I do mix my business once it is clear I will get PlatOne on QF so I get Plat on VA. I will probably change my behaviour to reach lifetime platinum. I agree with most other comments though - more than 5x lifetime gold is an awful lot.

United Airlines - Mileage Plus

17 Feb 2016

Total posts 46

I'm guessing the actual 'lifetime' of the Platinum lifer will be relatively short once they actually get there !

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

15 Feb 2018

Total posts 3

I have 64,000 SC. I don’t fly much these days so I guess I miss out.Took me approx 16 years to get those.😢

01 May 2018

Total posts 12

It's not too bad, you can wait for the annual/targeted double SC offers and should help you get there.

Etihad - Etihad Guest

26 Jul 2017

Total posts 5

It's clear to me that QFF has a hell of alot of loyal, regular & frequent flyer members and also a huge amount are Platinum and have been for some time and yet I feel Qantas takes it's FF for granted again & again. Perhaps, QFF has reached a tipping point and the "experience" we get is not so "special" compared to other Airlines, due to this runaway success and the fact that domestically there is soooooo little choice in Australia. I worked out along time ago, that there are alot of premium product offerings out there and they give much greater value than Qantas, yet they are also part of Oneworld, so I travel with Qantas 80-90% less than I used to, all the while enjoying better value, better experiences and being treated much more like a "valued" customer. Wake up Qantas, pull your heads out of the ground and start listening, to your best customers- you know the loyal one's that pay over the odds, regularly, for not so superior offering. Remember Qantas, they make you your huge profits......

02 Jul 2017

Total posts 12

Amen. Imagine the response if all astute PFFs followed suit.

10 May 2018

Total posts 13

Wow. Just...wow. I was not expecting 75k for LTP! I knew they wouldn't set it at 28k if they were to introduce it and was expecting somewhere between 40-50k. But 75k? That's just outrageous. They've really given me the incentive to change to BAEC once I hit LTG.

05 May 2016

Total posts 631

If they are serious about wanting flyers to go for LTP they should add some intermediary LifeTime Goals e.g. Lifetime Partner Gold and/or LifeTime Guest Card (take an additional guest into the QF lounge than your status would normally allowed provided travelling with you on the same booking) and/or annual First Lounge vouchers etc.


Offering no LifeTime Goals between 14k and 75k is ridiculous.

05 Dec 2018

Total posts 144

Maybe this has been setup for a dystopian future where select customers can ‘purchase’ status points to get up the ladder.

I think Qantas has been using Crown Casino’s gamification playbook.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

25 Aug 2016

Total posts 13

Just no incentive to stay once I hit 3,600 points (usually takes about 5 months) since there is no chance I’ll make 75,000. Would be nice to have some incentive at around the 40,000/50,000 level (still a mind blowing amount of travel) - something achievable to aim for.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

12 Feb 2017

Total posts 1

I can see the simplicity in the maths. 20 years at ~700SC = 14K (lifetime gold). 20 years at >3600SC = 72K (Lifetime platinum one). They just forgot the "one" off the title.

06 Feb 2014

Total posts 114

I believe the alternative Qantas was looking at was automatic lifetime platinum for anyone who has walked on the moon. They realized there would be too many people so they chose 75000 SCs

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

25 Sep 2013

Total posts 1247

What a joke.

11 Feb 2015

Total posts 5

I don’t understand why people are so upset about LTP. It wasn’t an option a few days ago. Nothing has been taken away from you.


QF wants LTP to be unattainable by most because that’s the point.

But I swear QF can never win. They could have given away $100 to every FF today and they would have been trolled by the “I fly everyone else now because QF can’t keep up” crowd.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

15 May 2019

Total posts 31

That’s because they’ve devised a very successful system of entitlement, that generates massive amounts of revenue based on illogical customer decision-making processes.


The price they pay for getting customers to handover fistfuls of cash for largely intangible or overstated benefits is getting trashed in FF forums and having entitled customers spit dummies and talk down to their staff every time they do something that sheds light on how illusory that scheme really is.

11 Feb 2015

Total posts 5

Sorry. You’ve digressed quite a bit from the topic. I would argue many companies pay for employees pay to earn status with QF? What other options do you really have besides Velocity where there is no lifetime acknowledgment.

gj
gj

11 Nov 2012

Total posts 2

This is a slap in the face to loyal Qantas frequent flyerst. I pay for my trips, not work. I have 34000 status points, so am lifetime Gold and have been platinum for 10 years. Thank you Qantas for giving me the final nudge to look at other airlines and other options. Qantas have not been loyal to your premium customers who carry the profit margin for those premium seats for the airline

26 Mar 2019

Total posts 1

Has nobody noticed that this is is a classic marketing move. Hide the standard devaluation news - upper class seats now cost more - behind a supposed new benefit. 75k SC for LTP - we know that QF think we are stupid but this is a new level. 20 years at P1 by which time the rules will have changed anyway.


Forget the news of more Y seats costing a little bit less on fees, it is still usually cheaper to pay cash for Y even after their piddleng reduction in fees (and why do we believe their spin that they are "taxes"). They know all too well that we use points for premium seats and upgrades and guess what - we have all been f'd over all over again.

Unfortunately media get freebies from QF (this site included) so can only parrot the QF spin or they lose their food trough. QF know this and effectively use so called independent reviewers as a cheap extension of their marketing department.

I'm at 42k SC after 20 years. P since inception and P1 last 4 years and I just feel ripped off all over again. It is nothing to bother aspiring to....

My guess is that the 100 or so LTP are politicians whose tickets we paid for and were already CC holders.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

15 May 2019

Total posts 31

Am I the only one who is happy about the price hike for premium seats?


I haven’t received a points upgrade or been able to get a decent premium award seat in 2 years as a P/P1 member and currently have 1.1M points and growing. I’d be happy to pay more if it drives people who are accumulating points from credit card applications out of the market and means I can actually get a seat or upgrade once in a while.

10 Jul 2018

Total posts 106

Hi gilbeyallen, I would respectfully disagree – sure, Qantas aren't going to lead with the devaluation news, but on their new FF website, the devaluation is mentioned in the third section along with a dedicated calculator showing you how many more points it'll take.

 
In terms of AusBT, as you know we always strive to not be influenced by spin. This particular article is solely about LTP, but on the main article about the changes, the devaluation is clearly mentioned in the third paragraph along with its own dedicated sub-section with plenty of tables showing the points increase.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

10 May 2012

Total posts 137

Any FF with QANTAS that has close to 75,000 status credits and is NOT already a Chairmans Lounge Guest must be a complete idiot. I think Qantas must now be extending its view about idiots to include all of us regular frequent flyers. I have over 20,000 SCs and there is no incentive here for anything. How incredibly disappointing.

SC's and Chairmans Lounge are completely unrelated and no comparison is possible.

02 Jun 2014

Total posts 3

Oh great! Even more economy pax in the lounges, security lines and priority boarding. Wish they would actually have a line for actual 1st and Biz pax... It's a joke now... Lines are bigger than the normal economy lines! #FWP

21 Jun 2019

Total posts 1

What a lousy system after so much procrastination by quantas on this long sought next goal! Time to move onto other airlines now as their long awaited carrot on a next tier is totally a waste of time and money! You have lost my loyalty over 20 years and o am moving on now! Goodbye!!!! After 10 plus years as a platinum and life time gold of over 10 years also- waste of 20 years supporting you!

Takes 23 years of Gold to get to Lifetime Gold. 63 years of Platinum to get Lifetime Platinum. As they said in The Castle, "tell 'em they're dreamin". Surely this has to be a mistaken calculation. I'm on about 20,000 SC's and recently started using QF/Oneworld again. When all this spin started earlier in the week I (apparently foolishly) figured the Lifetime Platinum would be double Gold (in keeping with the relationships in Silver and Gold).

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

25 Aug 2016

Total posts 13

From reading all the responses here I guess the message is that there are a lot of very frequent flyers who are well beyond Life Time Gold and/or easily and regularly achieve P1 status who were hoping that Qantas would provide some additional benefit - some reward for loyalty well and beyond the existing tiers. These are the people that Qantas has pissed off the most. They must’ve known this would happen so it’s a “courageous” decision on their part.


And for all those who have achieved LTP or are close - I say bravo! That’s Ryan Bingham epic legendary flying. I am just a kid (5 years straight P1) and can only look on in amazement.


Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

23 Jun 2014

Total posts 35

As mentioned above move to BA, at least possible to achieve and then you can be OW Emerald for life. Takes 23 years at BA Gold, equivalent of platinum. Too late for me but anyone on P1 already life time gold move to BA.

Etihad - Etihad Guest

21 Jun 2019

Total posts 2

I think they have ,missed that their are many versions of loyalty, the LTP is not about loyalty its about the corporate dollar spend, there are many Australians who have toiled in small to medium enterprise for decades being loyal they have effectively been ruled out. my personal example I was gold before platinum was invented and have maintain platinum every year since it inception and I'm just 2/3's of the way to LTP. I don't think I could have been more loyal, I guess people like I fit into not big enough to be recognised based on ability to spend.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

01 Nov 2016

Total posts 130

Absolutely agree @npg-craig. In a very similar situation working in a medium sized US HQ privately owned global company small company working in a small Aus office and we as an organisation in Aus have been very loyal to Qantas. We only fly Qantas both domestically and overseas. Do feel 50000 SCs would be a reasonable number to get LTP.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

25 Nov 2016

Total posts 67

Just as the vast majority of us won't be receiving an invitation to join the Chairman's Lounge we won't be getting a shiny new card saying Lifetime Platinum. Qantas would have checked their figures and know how many will qualify. Very few (CEOs etc) But it probably felt compelled to create LTP after so much online debate about it here and other forums. As long as they don't move the goal posts on LTS and LTG I'm fine.

29 Mar 2017

Total posts 17

At 75,000 SC and limited opportunities for First Class travel (which earns maximum SC) within the Qantas fleet, Qantas may as well say that Lifetime Platinum Status is provided if you earn 1,200 SC every year.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

16 Nov 2017

Total posts 10

Agree 100% with Andyyc. For me nothing has changed. I am Platinum and LTG, have 30K SC's and over 2 million points, don't use classic rewards seats, always travel as far forward as I can, am now retired and over 65. No chance of LTP so for me its a myth.... Thanks Mr Joyce and team, for nothing.

Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer

05 Jul 2019

Total posts 1

I'm LTG for 6 years or so & Platinum for as many years.

I have been loyal to Qantas hoping LTP would one day come in.
But at 75K sc why would I be loyal any more??
Even in my wildest dreams I couldn't get 75K sc's in my lifetime.
May as well keep my LTG & be loyal somewhere else where dreams are reachable.


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