The 100K awards points equaling 40K QF points is a good point. You get the sense that the increasingly confusing earning tables might actually be designed to trick consumers re the actual value that they're getting out of the product.

Spot on. This offer has made that logic crystal clear for me. I might get this product as a back-up for an Amex that gives me a decent Qantas yield but the new points restrictions mean they're no longer going to be my primary card. I just need a MasterCard with 10-15K of capacity somewhere in the...

This is such a cynical play from CBA. It's really a slight of hand to give them a strategic foothold against further changes to the RBA's interchange fee cap, which would lessen their capacity to recover $$ for FF points. I hold a Diamond Awards account with them with a $50K limit and this move w...

This is a massive slap in the face to some of their highest yielding customers, in their busiest lounge, which also happens to be in their home port. Lesser provincial lounges like PER and BNE have had a makeover but their biggest road warrior customers on the SYD-MEL pairing are consistently let...

I wonder whether the benefits like the superannuation fund are being discussed as a way of bridging the gap between Lifetime Gold and Lifetime Platinum or as a way to remove Lifetime Gold from the line up? Surely there would be an all out revolt if they removed that tier or shifted the goalposts.