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 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.
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. 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. 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perks, service and recognition above and beyond standard Qantas Frequent Flyer Platinum, rolled into a secret set of "unpublished benefits" - such as the ability to open up award seats. 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. 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. 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.
Lifetime Platinum status is really only possible for those who fly exclusively in business class or higher.
Extra perks for Lifetime Platinum members
Platinum frequent flyers are regulars at Qantas lounges around the world.Is it worth aiming for Qantas Lifetime Platinum?
Lifetime Platinum is virtually unreachable for all but the most regular of high flyers.
Benefits similar to Qantas Platinum can be enjoyed by retaining Oneworld Emerald status.
05 May 2016
Total posts 631
Over double what’s needed for the BA equivalent. 35k-45k LTSC would have been a reasonable tally.
29 Jan 2016
Total posts 13
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 122
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 469
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...
QF
03 Jul 2015
Total posts 21
Looks like I qualify, but maybe not if double staus points are removed.
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.
26 Aug 2012
Total posts 43
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.
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).
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 468
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.
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.
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 468
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
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
28 Oct 2011
Total posts 468
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.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
28 Oct 2011
Total posts 468
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.
02 Jul 2017
Total posts 12
It could prove to be an own goal.
20 Jun 2019
Total posts 2
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 469
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 469
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 469
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 468
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!!
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.
20 Jun 2019
Total posts 2
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
05 Oct 2011
Total posts 201
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!
05 Oct 2011
Total posts 201
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.
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
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I'm LTG for 6 years or so & Platinum for as many years.
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