Unfortunately that's not legal :p

Well they can change that! ;)

Here I was thinking that "Civil Unions" allowed any sort of "coupling".:eek:
Well wasn't that what the opposition to the Bill claimed?:confused::p

I wasn't referring to civil unions ;)

Although kudos to any hardcore FT'er that marries for CL membership :D

This thread here refers to an Air NZ employee who said the changes were due out next week.

They have sent the new membership guide for printing.

The planets are aligning!

So will we all get a snail mail membership guide or just an email advising of changes?

If you're lucky you'll get neither!

Pushed back to end of month
 

Changes now gone back to the end of this month :rolleyes:

Is this going to be the date of change or date of annoucement for a change at a later date?

Especially since all the women members of parliament in NZ are pig ugly it would be a brave person indeed who wanted to marry one for status. Apologies to anyone here who is either a female MOP of married to one.:D

I'd like to know how this new system will work.

Will they be changing the WHOLE system whereby Airpoints Dollars don't count for status at all and members earn status credits/tier points/EQM's which count towards status and separate Airpoints Dollars that are just for rewards?

Or will they have a complicated system whereby Airpoints Dollars still count towards status and nothing changes on that front, but NZ introduce some sort of status credit/tier point/EQM system that only applies for Domestic, Tasman and Pacific Smart Saver Fares. So essentially you can either earn status through AP$ as normal or smart saver fare status credit system or a mixture of both?

To possibly bring this thread crashing back down to Earth, my Koru Club renewal letter this month began with a sentence to the effect that 'exciting changes to Koru Club will be coming soon'. So it may be that any pending changes to AirPoints are of the same type - around lounges and other benefits on the ground - and nothing at all to do with earn rates or redemption possibilities.

So by all means speculate, but keep those reality check goggles on too :)

NZ have already publicly announced that they will be introducing the ability to earn status on all flights (read: domestic, tasman and pacific smart saver fares). They haven't elaborated on what sort of new system will be developed or what changes will be made to the old system to make this possible.

I was led to believe that every flight earns credits towards tier status but only certain categories of flight earn Airpoints Dollars. The credits are the same value as Airpoints Dollars.
For example AKL-WLG with Grab a seat would earn say 8 tier credits but no Airpoints Dollars. However a full economy flight from AKL-WLG would earn 19 Airpoints Dollars AND 19 tier credits.
The tier credit levels are set the same as they are today hence the corresponding value with Airpoints Dollars. i.e. 450 for Silver, 900 to Gold, etc.

At least this was my understanding ;)