Ged

My wife works in medical space/ DHB /MOH. Information they have had is ' catch it in course of your job / local vicinity - paid time off' - ' catch it on a holiday or travel that was not required for business - you cover the time if required to be isolated. All still verbal and seems to be developing arms and legs as this thing progresses.

racekp

Its interesting they are only continuing to look at each case and see how close you are to retaining at the roll over date. The bigger issue I see is recognising that for the forsesable future travel will be little/if any so when it does come time for roll over, SP balances will not be 'close' as a result of the restricted travel. But their response will be 'sorry you have not done enough travel and your SP is not close to earning or retaining a tier so we cannot help at this time'.

So FFP members that are close for the next few months may get a leg up, others that have just started a new year and likley won't travel for months and their roll over is not until later this year or early next, will not be granted any special treatment for the lost time SP earn potential and therefore miss requal

NZ_Flyer

At the end of the day QF are doing something about status and NZ probably aren’t. So if I lose Elite but Qantas extend Platinum then I know who I’ll be flying when the work travel ban is over...and it’ll be wherever I still have top status

Beano

Pretty hard to travel exclusively with Qantas when the bulk of your travel is domestic around NZ .

Gasfoodlodging

sure, AIRNZ is in deep ...., but the gummint will also support it through the worst of it given ownership and importance of tourism industry/ inter region commuting/ business.

poopbunny

If they wanted to, just lowering the 810 NZ metal threshold, could be enough to get many through.

NZ residents could be encouraged to use the AirNZ AP credit cards to bridge the required SP earn that could still net Air NZ some income. Probably more profitable than flying half empty planes.

Those overseas not yet in lock down could earn via *A, which is what alliances are supposed to be.

JayKiwi

IMHO, looking at tight requal status cases on a case-by-case basis is probably appropriate given the circumstances, as opposed to large blanket extensions.

If you are a newish Gold/Elite, and have an iffy chance of requal, that's just that basically - there are soft landings, which not airlines offer. If you have 10 banked years as Elite, your position in terms of dedicated business and spend is pretty clear cut, and you will be much more buffered medium-long term than a 'slighter' status situation, which is entirely as it should be.

drajknox

Completely disagree - I was around halfway in first 2 months of this period, now DHB rules prevent me travelling. I already have travel booked later in year that would requalify and probably would have exceeded the 2500+ SP I earned last year if all going well. However if can’t travel internationally would only be perhaps 70% toward requal and so unlikely to be considered close when clearly would have requalified - would need to use banked year next year which would be poor outcome compared to what other programs have offered.

Fairest solution would be 9-12 month extension of current status/ requalification period for all. The extended period should not allow increased status - only to maintain status quo. When NZ introduced the pregnancy holiday scheme they effectively set a precedent and could do similar for those unable to travel because of Coronavirus!

nzjay

I don't think you have much to worry about when you're earning 2500+ SP a year, I thought hitting Gold after copious spending and barely compliant upgrades on work tickets was an achievement!

To be honest I think Air NZ will stay quiet on the topic and let people's status drop away, they know we'll come back no matter how much they torture us.

JayKiwi

Yep. No-one's tier status matters more to anyone than the individual flyer concerned.

Markhm

My anniversary is June so hopefully the dice fall in my favour as I am accumulating carry over points. Novotel and IHG both contacted me today about my status with them. Fingers crossed it all ends well

sbiddle

Expect an announcement from Air NZ tomorrow.

kiwicyclo

Mine is July 9th. I'll be sweet. Banked year will be on flight AKL - IAH - ATL on 23rd May. Maybe even prior to that if my domestic travel picks up.

mmonster

waiting with anticipation

SDB22

From Cam Wallace for those not on Twitter -

“As part of our response to the current travel restrictions our loyalty team are looking at options to ensure that high frequency customers retain status with @flyairNZ”