Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
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They do expect people who are a member of the frequent flyer loyalty program to have an eligible activity at least once in 18 months to keep points alive. Living in Australia this is not hard for many people. Many people seem to overlook/ignore the frequent part.
Whereas the QF FF certainly started life as just that - a
frequent flyer program, it no longer is either about the "flying" bit or the "frequent" bit!
....a case in point... I've accrued 193,000 points in the last 12 months and whereas I've accrued 25,500 on flights (mostly on a couple of BA, not QF, business / first class) against just one QF operated flight, the rest of those on credit card transfer when on bonus (93,500) and shopping when on Xmas bonuses and a cursory number from Woolworths Rewards (12,000), Epiqure wine picking up then bonuses (60,000) and hotels when on bonus (2,500).
There is nothing remotely "flyer" or "frequent" about that!
QF is happy - it's sold those points to partner organisations and made the cash revenue. It continues to add point accrual partners so it can sell ever more points for cash.
But my "flight loyalty" is far more likely to be booked to SQ , AA or Alaska Airlines due to better earn / burn rates and absence of fuel (oops carrier) charges.
Living in CNS the QF points are still of use to access CX reward flights and CX / other OneWorld partners and EK thereafter through HKG wherein the excessive fuel (oops carrier charges) levied by QF do not apply!
Ironically, as QF LTG I am released from any continuing sense of "loyalty" to QF!