QF Platinum- Jetstar Benefits?
Aug 27, 2010, 7:37 pm
#4
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 549
Going off the title of the thread only, MORE MORE MORE. A good start would be free checked in weight, up to 20kg.
Not only for Plats, but also Golds and QC members.
The only benefit I can see is QC entry, and at some airports that are serviced by Jetstar, they aren't available (eg; Byron Bay/Ballina). If DJ has similar priced fare (which it has 99% of the time) but better departure time, l fly DJ.
YMMV though.
Not only for Plats, but also Golds and QC members.
The only benefit I can see is QC entry, and at some airports that are serviced by Jetstar, they aren't available (eg; Byron Bay/Ballina). If DJ has similar priced fare (which it has 99% of the time) but better departure time, l fly DJ.
YMMV though.
Aug 27, 2010, 9:16 pm
#6
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Newcastle, Australia.
Programs: QF Plat+ LTG/ OW Emerald, VA Plat, NZ Gold, HH Diamond, Hyatt Whatsit. Taxation is theft.
Posts: 2,636
The single biggest benefit JQ could offer me would be check-in MORE than 2hrs prior to domestic departure.
JQ is the only practical option for flying on my most frequent route - NTL-MEL-NTL, unless you go via SYD with OT.
I do a lot of work at the airport, and it's a right pain in the arse to have to muck about with bags and not just be able to check them in and be done with it.
JQ is the only practical option for flying on my most frequent route - NTL-MEL-NTL, unless you go via SYD with OT.
I do a lot of work at the airport, and it's a right pain in the arse to have to muck about with bags and not just be able to check them in and be done with it.
Aug 27, 2010, 9:25 pm
#7
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Portland OR Double Emerald (QF and AA), DL PM/MM, Starwood Plat
Posts: 19,589
Absolutely agree with you, shillard. But isn't it comical? First the airline has us chuffed for not allowing use of F check-in, then not allowing Starclass check-in, and now it is down to not allowing Y check-in early enough. Quite adept ratcheting down of expectations of just what WP benefits should be 
Aug 28, 2010, 6:51 am
#8
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Programs: QF Platinum, ICH RA, HH Silver, Hyatt GP
Posts: 134
Aug 28, 2010, 10:33 am
#10
Moderator: Coupon Connection & S.P.A.M
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Louisville, KY
Programs: Destination Unknown, TSA Disparager Diamond (LTDD)
Posts: 57,952
The single biggest benefit I'd like to see is JQ ceasing to exist and instead all JQ routes become (revert to) QF.
Aug 29, 2010, 1:42 am
#12
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: MEL
Posts: 398
The only tangible benefit of QF Plat when flying Jetstar is QP access, and if flying through an international terminal ie SYD & MEL the ability to use the QP First Lounges. Gotta love my overnight MEL/SYD/MEL run on JQ3/JQ29.
Aug 29, 2010, 3:15 am
#13
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Singapore
Programs: QF LTG, SQ EGTP, Bonvoy LTG
Posts: 4,844
Actually the first one (QP access) is not a tangible benefit of a QF Plat flying Jetstar. It is a benefit of being Platinum, whether flying Jetstar, Virgin Blue or not flying at all. The second (access to FCL lounges at SYD & MEL) is a tangible benefit, flying all other non-OW airlines (unless on QF code) access is only to Intl J lounges.
Aug 29, 2010, 8:42 pm
#14
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: Portland OR Double Emerald (QF and AA), DL PM/MM, Starwood Plat
Posts: 19,589
QF has announced that all 15 of the first batch of 787 deliveries are going to JQ ... so it isn't about to cease to exist. That suggests 2 or 3 more routes going to JQ internationally (presumably the long-rumoured FCO and ATH but maybe something surprising like Berlin. I'm betting BKK will also become a JQ route, maybe all the way to LHR if QF needs leverage with its staff.
