"13.1.3 Status Credits are only earned on Eligible Flights of Qantas, oneworldTM Alliance Airlines, Air Pacific and QantasLink, or other airlines as determined by Qantas. The number of Status Credits earned vary depending on fare class travelled in. These are posted on the Qantas website qantas.com and are updated from time to time."

It then comes down to what is an eligible flight.

"9.2.1 Points for air travel may only be earned for paid travel on regular scheduled flights (subject to clause 9.2.4) where a Qantas flight number (or the flight number of any oneworldTM Alliance Airline or Frequent Flyer Partner Airline) is entered on the ticket ("Eligible Flight")."

No mention here about an eligible flight not being a flight earning points, since that is mentioned further down in 9.3.

"9.3.1 In addition to the Eligible Flight requirements in clause 9.2.1, the following Fare types and route restrictions apply to the earning of Points on certain Frequent Flyer Partner Airline and oneworldTM Alliance Airline flights. Fares and routes listed are those which are not eligible for earning Points unless otherwise specified:

(...snipped...)"

So they clearly refer to "eligible flights" as being different to flights earning points.

This is obviously not what they intended, but given how mean-spiritted they have been recently with some changes, I would be forcing them to stick to the letter of their T&C's. Of course, given how they have extended status to others when they didn't *quite* requalify, maybe this is not a good thing, but then, maybe they WOULD have requalified if they had gotten SC's for those sectors.

AmI waffling yet?

Dave