Easiest way not to let Qantas Miles expire?
 

Hi all,

My 50k miles are set to expire July 31st...
What's the easiest way to make sure they don't, considering I have no possibility of flying Qantas before then?

If I understand correctly, the points have to post before that date, so that excludes a few options...

Thanks!

You're in Paris? Do a quick flight on a European oneworld member and credit to QF.

I should have been more specific: I can't credit any flight at all in this period of time.
I'm looking for alternative solutions, like earning miles for purchase, etc...
Just afraid it wont post in time...

If you were in Aus, it would be easy. Just get an EDR card and spend $31 at woolworths...

Try http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/partners/car or http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/partners/toolbar

Spending points will also extend their expiry date by 18 months.

Simply order a new membership card at a cost of 1,000 points and you'll be fine for another 18 months.

Try looking at some of the ideas in these threads and see if they might work for you:-

• http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qanta...-thoughts.html
• http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qanta...re-3-days.html
• http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qanta...ire-march.html
• http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qanta...ut-expire.html
• http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qanta...ert-avios.html

Get the toolbar. http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/partners/toolbar

But only if in Australia. It did not work for me in New Zealand

Indeed. This questions has been posted many times.

When you say it didn't work for you, could you elaborate? Did it fail to install, or did it install and say you had earned points but the points didn't show up, or something else?

How long does it take for a hotel stay to appear? I'm staying in the Hilton Warsaw on 27 September 2014 (Saturday night, unfortunately) and my points expire 30 September 2014. If I pick Points and Miles for my Hilton earning option, with QF set as my preferred program, will the miles post in time to prevent expiration?

Points can take up to eight weeks after your stay to be credited to your account.

Yikes, thanks.

I guess I'll keep looking for a way to spend my 13k points now then.

Can someone confirm that transferring Marriott points or Amex MR points to my account will reset the expiry date? (I want to be sure as it certainly doesn’t work with Flying Blue!)

Install the Qantas Wellbeing app and link it to your account.

You can use any phone (iOS, Android) that can track the steps count, no need to wearable activity tracker.

With any goal completed (e.g. daily steps or sleep time) it will post the points weekly, That should be enough to reset the Qantas account activity.

I suspect it's not available to foreigners. I just did a search on my iPhone and the only things I'm getting for Qantas are:

Qantas Airways
Qantas Entertainmen
Qantas Money
Qantas VR
Air Tracker for Qantas
T-80 for Qantas
Qantas Aircrew Club

Do you have a link I could try?

Another thread about keeping QF points alive
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qant...-bronze-c.html “need to credit a QF domestic flight in Y to my QF account where I am only Bronze, but need to keep the miles alive”

In thread https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qant...ion-dates.html

The survey was a good idea, but no longer available.

Here's the link on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/qantas...g/id1081741211

If link doesn't work for you, they might be geoblocking it to Australia only?

If you currently have no way to earn a single point over the coming 7 months I'd question the urge to retain them and would be looking to spend. Chances are that by the time you finally do get to earn/spend, redemption rates will have deteriorated again (and maybe again ...)

Regards,

BD

Post 1 is from 2014 (has July = 7 months)
Post 14 (margarita girl) is from yesterday.
Thread had no posts from Aug 2014 to Jan 2020 (post 14)
[A good reason why old threads should not be bounced]

D'oh!!

Thanks Mwenenzi!!

Regards,

BD

App not available in your country or region.

Thanks anyhow. From the sounds of it, transferring points in from Amex or Marriott should do the trick.

Sorry about resurrecting an old thread. I’m not a regular in the Qantas forum. I searched for threads with expire, expiry and expiration in the thread title and everything I found was old. Guess I could have started (another) new thread.

it’s only available to Australians and even using a foreign phone in Australia won’t allow you access unfortunately.

Spend on ebay
 

Buy something on eBay through the Qantas portal
Maybe a cable for a Dollar

Go to secureparking.com.au and book a cheap carpark. That'll cost you max $7 if you choose the right one.

From https://www.secureparking.com.au/en-...-qantas-points
That 1 Feb 2020, as per AU date conventions

More ideas?
 

“Bronze Frequent Flyer cards are only issued to eligible members residing in Australia and New Zealand.”

https://qantas.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/354

I live in the U.S.

Is it possible to make a donation through the QF website? Such as to the World Wildlife Fund?

Link to the Charity option at the QFF Rewards Store
 

The fifth link in Post #6 above contains an oblique reference to this link:

https://www.qantasstore.com.au/c/Charity/11

It is reached by going to the QFF Rewards Store.

At the red Shop Rewards Store button, the word "Charity" appears among 11 ways to spend points.

That was easy.
 

I made a donation of 2900 QF points to give AUD 25 to the Australian Red Cross.

Does anyone have any recent experience of using the route mentioned in this thread: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qant...s-rebirth.html

The QF website has a live page mentioning this route, but now using Quandoo: https://www.qantas.com/au/en/book-a-...staurants.html

I've made (and used) a number of reservations this year, in mid-January and the first half of February, but haven't been awarded any QF points. Quandoo hasn't awarded its own loyalty points either, which had made me think that the points were going to QF. But I'm now wondering whether they have got lost and are worth chasing, or whether this is actually no longer a live promotion.

I try to do that whenever I am buying anything on eBay.

Do points earned and transferred using ANZ credit card to my qantas account count towards activity.Is there anyway of knowing the expiry date of points in the account

FWIW, no QF points ever arrived from these. With an imminent points expiry, I've had to use a different route. But I may give this another try in due course, seeing as the page is still live on the QF website.

I have points expiring at the end of July. Are point donations deducted immediately? If so, it seems like donating 2900 points is the best way to keep the rest of my points active. I made an ebay purchase 6 weeks ago but the points have not yet been credited.

Have you downloaded the QANTAS wellbeing app? there should be some pretty quick points posted from that

You could redeem points now for an award flight on a far-off date. If I understand the current concession correctly, if in October you find that you can't use that ticket after all, you can cancel it and have the points redeposted then, without penalty.

Will this not make the points expire in the moment I cancel that flight?

AIUI, the clock should reset when you redeem. I can't see anything in the T&C that suggests that if you later cancel the ticket, that means that you're retrospectively regarded as never having redeemed. The T&C aren't specific about whether the redeposit of points when you cancel also resets the clock again, but as I see it, the worst that ought to happen is that the clock is reset only once, at the time when you make the booking.

I just saw this in the the conditions when I was about to make a booking: "Requests to cancel a Classic Flight Reward ticket (where permitted) and re-credit points may be submitted prior to the commencement of the first flight in your booking and will incur a Cancellation Refund Fee in points. Only points that would not have expired will be re-credited." So I guess this would not work as expected.