Originally Posted by
IAN-UK
If Airlines that offer services like cars to and from the airport generally provide those to all passengers on certain ticket types, irrespective of FF membership. It’s a direct cost to the airline which is in turn built in to the ticket price. So it's difficult to see how it stacks up to provide those to people who haven't paid for it, particularly every time they travel. And the sleep rooms situation in AS is not going to change as envisaged, if it were it would be more justifiable to limit them to passengers paying cash for F fares. It is a First Class lounge after all.
Agree top perks should always be linked to revenue, and perhaps minimum amount of hour flights, so as to exclude the quick cheaper destinations. I find I get points easily because I am 90% of times ticketed in C & J and the other 10% in D or I
Originally Posted by
IAN-UK
Otherwise I guess it might just be better to fly F for the additional backside kissing that may offer. Constantly adding higher membership levels runs the risk of absurd elitism, which given their emphasis on top quality J rather than F may also be contrary to QR's own ethos.
The problem being Qatar has abandoned first class to most destinations, and the majority of the F seats are ME flights, and really just classified as F through a naming anomaly.