Status Extensions
Mar 5, 2021, 10:01 pm
#136
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: bne
Programs: Velocity Gold, AIRNZ Elite, Qantas Silver ,Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,321
Missed gold and elite
Not Elite but was 30 SP's away from regaining Gold pre covid hitting and at that time has 3 J class international trips (2 x Europe and 1 x Asia) and 1 x PE trip to US booked for the following months so would have moved up the ranks through Gold and to Elite. I have had Gold a number of times but never made Elite and 2019-2020 was a bigger than usual travel year for me so probably my only chance of doing so - now I find myself with my silver extended to September but I will be lucky to retain that, and my Koru expires in April ...... first world problem agreed, but a frustration all the same.
Mar 5, 2021, 10:26 pm
#138
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: South Island, New Zealand
Programs: Krisflyer, Qantas Frequent Flyer, Air NZ Airpoints, Koru, NZ*S and former *G
Posts: 317
Unlikely as I only spend $2k to $3k monthly (private spend only as most business spending is typically prepaid by my employer), so that does help but really not a lot of SP's, and my domestic travel is only a trip a month at best, and regional earn is rubbish anyway. I guess it is what it is, just frustrating to have been 'so close' as it were. 
Last edited by ottiehund; Mar 6, 2021 at 8:05 am
Mar 5, 2021, 10:54 pm
#139
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: bne
Programs: Velocity Gold, AIRNZ Elite, Qantas Silver ,Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,321
Mar 7, 2021, 12:41 pm
#141
Join Date: Sep 2017
Programs: Air NZ Koru, Air NZ ELT *G, IHG Spire Ambassador, Emirates, Flying Blue, QANTAS Club
Posts: 424
Mar 7, 2021, 12:55 pm
#142
Moderator, Hilton Honors
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: on a short leash
Programs: some
Posts: 71,422
Mar 8, 2021, 3:42 am
#143
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: bne
Programs: Velocity Gold, AIRNZ Elite, Qantas Silver ,Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,321
Years as elite
https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/elit...d-year-gifting
Mar 8, 2021, 3:45 am
#144
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: bne
Programs: Velocity Gold, AIRNZ Elite, Qantas Silver ,Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,321
Rollover status points
Does the app still show the surplus status points that is carried forward to assist you maintaining elite?
I thought it use to show but I can't seem to find it now.
I thought it use to show but I can't seem to find it now.
Mar 9, 2021, 11:42 am
#145
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: New Zealand (when I'm home!)
Programs: Air NZ Elite
Posts: 1,218
It used to just show in your status points progress bar I believe?
I rolled over three days ago. Fingers crossed we will be flying internationally to some destinations by the end of the year so I have at least some time to retain elite before March 2022.
I rolled over three days ago. Fingers crossed we will be flying internationally to some destinations by the end of the year so I have at least some time to retain elite before March 2022.
Aug 11, 2021, 3:38 am
#146
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 2,650
Looks like QF is extending status into 2023:
https://www.executivetraveller.com/n...ension-to-2023
Will be interesting to see if NZ follows with another extension.
And it looks like QF is indicating this may be the last outright extension:
Basically giving a points boost so have two years to gain the points to retain status.
With QF saying this wonder if NZ will release something similar soon as well? I'm somewhat interested as I am about the use the gifted banked year in the next couple of days, so NZ's status stuff announced earlier this year will only take me through to Aug 2022.
https://www.executivetraveller.com/n...ension-to-2023
Will be interesting to see if NZ follows with another extension.
And it looks like QF is indicating this may be the last outright extension:
Once the offer is activated, Qantas Frequent Flyer will also roll over eligible Status Credits that members earned this year into their new membership year.
With QF saying this wonder if NZ will release something similar soon as well? I'm somewhat interested as I am about the use the gifted banked year in the next couple of days, so NZ's status stuff announced earlier this year will only take me through to Aug 2022.
Aug 11, 2021, 4:45 am
#147
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: New Zealand (when I'm home!)
Programs: Air NZ Elite
Posts: 1,218
If Qantas are doing it, I would bet Air NZ too. The writing was on the wall when other airlines in the USA started doing it.
If we had our points roll over, I think that would be a fairly good compromise. Travel still isn't returning to normal levels next year, and so for many people, hitting status in 2022 off of just 2022 flying isn't realistic, but could be by combining the two years together.
If we had our points roll over, I think that would be a fairly good compromise. Travel still isn't returning to normal levels next year, and so for many people, hitting status in 2022 off of just 2022 flying isn't realistic, but could be by combining the two years together.
Aug 11, 2021, 10:10 am
#148
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sydney, Australia
Programs: NZ*G, MAR Titanium, HLT Diamond
Posts: 3,622
Aug 11, 2021, 12:44 pm
#149
Join Date: Feb 2007
Programs: NZ Koru
Posts: 6,415
If Qantas are doing it, I would bet Air NZ too. The writing was on the wall when other airlines in the USA started doing it.
If we had our points roll over, I think that would be a fairly good compromise. Travel still isn't returning to normal levels next year, and so for many people, hitting status in 2022 off of just 2022 flying isn't realistic, but could be by combining the two years together.
If we had our points roll over, I think that would be a fairly good compromise. Travel still isn't returning to normal levels next year, and so for many people, hitting status in 2022 off of just 2022 flying isn't realistic, but could be by combining the two years together.
800SP from domestic only flying is pretty hard, especially because they are putting an lot of additional seats into the cheaper fare brackets on the main trunk hence less SP.
With no Tasman Bubble, there goes all the changes of getting 80-100SP from an return trip in PE.
Aug 11, 2021, 6:40 pm
#150
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: New Zealand (when I'm home!)
Programs: Air NZ Elite
Posts: 1,218
From Air NZ's perspective: surely the elite program is clearly 95% for international travelers? Not only does it require an insane amount of domestic trips to get status that way, but all the elite benefits you get domestically, you can literally just buy with Koru. The elite benefits are mostly related to international travel. It seems like it's in-place not to incentivize domestic travel, but to incentivize regular international travelers to choose them, where they have a slew of actual competitors. And so if they don't roll over the status to match their competitors, then I'd ask them what was the point in rolling status over these past 2 years, if they were just going to drop the ball so close to the finish line, and have status expire just before it becomes viable to attain it, and then let their competitors eat up that market instead.