Not the most important issue in the world I know but I've always thought with the QFF 'metals' for status that the platinum card is a bit dull.

On a recent flight I saw my gold luggage tags next to some plat ones in the overhead bin and just thought the gold looked better.

I guess Qantas' problem with going Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum was that they couldn't do a proper shiny platinum like on credit cards because it was taken by silver.

Perhaps they could have called the non-status tier 'red' and then gone bronze silver and gold, more like BA, or are platinum's happy with the 'understated elegance of their card'?