<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by BAe 146:
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'?
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QF's top tier used to be Gold - ie Blue, Silver, then Gold.
To get Gold, you had to travel on 80(?) revenue flights in a 12 month period. That then became 1700 status credits, an incredible total back then (1999: 8 SCs - BNE-SYD). When Platinum was introduced, the threshold was reduced to 1,400 SCs.
Platinum did co-incide with a major revamp of the QFF scheme, so maybe it was felt that new colours heralded the significance of the changes.