Cathay Pacific Asia Miles - FirstAir Offers Free "Q Club" Membership to Select CX FT Members

1st-Air.net is offering a free subscription to Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report and a free Andrew Harper’s Q Club membership (regularly $285) to a limited number of CX FT members selected by FirstAir to beta-test FirstAir's new web site release (probably 1-2 CX regulars).

FirstAir will select beta-test participants from among applicants who email FirstAir by 5PM on Wednesday, March 10th. FirstAir is looking for genuine feedback on the pending launch of its new on-line booking module for discounted first and business class international travel (this is not a promotion for FirstAir products/services). Participants will be selected at the discretion of FirstAir based on their perceived ability to provide valuable insights as a result of their savvy and experience with international on-line travel bookings.

To "apply", please email FirstAir's President, Robert Laney at robert@1st-air.net and provide some background on your international travel booking expertise.

As background, I have been a customer of FirstAir for many years (after first learning about them on FlyerTalk). I recently agreed to join their advisory council, and in this context, I recommended offering this Q Club benefit to select FT members who help FirstAir "test drive" their new site.

Please feel free to email me directly at jonathan@slater1.com if you have any questions about the legitimacy of this and/or FirstAir.

I have no connection with Andrew Harper, The Hideaway Report, or the Q Club, but this benefit was selected as something which it was perceived that FT members would value/appreciate.

Among other things, Q Club membership provides special recognition (upgrades) and rates at more than 250 prestigious U.S. and international hotels. For more info, see: http://www.hideawayreport.com/show.dll/qclub.

Some people have expressed concern about how any information provided to FirstAir will be used.

I can tell you that FirstAir does not intend on marketing to any of the "applicants".

This is not a scam: the intent is not to gather lots of names, select a few, and then market to the rest of the "applicants".

That is why I included my personal email if people have any questions, and I would hope that my longstanding participation as an active FT member would also help provide reassurance to people.

The reason for having "applicants" at all is that the expense here is high per participant, and they only want 20 or so globally, so they naturally would like to select ones that they feel will provide genuine input.

This is airline/region specific. They are offering this to people who have sufficient experience to be able to provide valuable feedback (as this is quite an expensive "thank you" -- more than you would typically see for this kind of thing and very relevant to many of us).

I am killing off this post both here and on SQ and refering the matter to Randy - I view this is a totally commercially oriented post and am also unhappy about the cross-posting.