JohnSydney2000, welcome aboard. Please do contribute and join the discussions - as off beat as they may get from time to time. 4 posts in 5 months is very restrained!

The 00xxxxx FF numbers are a bit of an anomoly. If you joined in early 90's and have a 001 number, it is a fair bet you joined the Australian Airlines FF program or were even a Flight Deck member prior to the FF program commencing. The AA (better call it TN so we don't continue to offend our friends from over the big pond) program was merged with QF later, but the FF numbers remained the same (just added the 00 to the front to make them 7 digits long).

So people who joined the QF program prior to the TN merger may well have been members longer and have a higher number. Once the programs were merged, new numbers were allocated in such a way as to be unique, not reflective of you position in the joining queue. So a number of 4 million does not mean you are the 4 million's member.

But I do get comments even from QF people about the low number. According to my card, I joined in 91 (oh my, that is why I have such a pile of FF statements in the filing cabinet - time to sort again). I think it was soon after the TN FF program commenced. Anyone who was a Flight Deck member prior to the FF program will have an even lower number, which I guess is where you 001 number originates from.