New Qantas Club Membership Cards
Apr 21, 2006, 9:16 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Nov 2005
Programs: Qantas Club Gold
Posts: 110
New Qantas Club Membership Cards
How long have the new look Qantas Club membership cards beein in use? I received my new one yesterday and the new look design (smaller writing, information all on the left of the card, large empty space on the right of the card and plain background) certainly looks a bit bare in many ways ... not that it matters that much 
Apr 22, 2006, 10:01 pm
#3
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Programs: Virgin Australia Velocity Gold
Posts: 1,425
Seems there are new Silver cards too..
I managed to get a friend to show me their new card via webcam.. [Please excuse the very poor quality] You can sort of see how the card has changed.
Looking forward to getting my Silver card when I hit 'PS' in June
^
I managed to get a friend to show me their new card via webcam.. [Please excuse the very poor quality] You can sort of see how the card has changed.
Looking forward to getting my Silver card when I hit 'PS' in June
^
Apr 23, 2006, 2:38 am
#4
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: SCL, MCT, LGW and a variety of 1W lounges in between.
Programs: BA Mucci (Seigneur et Ingenieur des Appareils Volants (Gold)), QF (WP and LTG), AA EXP, GF Gold
Posts: 3,931
London Plats
If you think it takes a long time to get a card in Australia, you should try having a London address. Having got frustrated with picking up the card in SYD as I always seemed to be away for months around renewal, I tried for London based address.
All that I can say is that the pidgeon must be rather tired. 8 weeks after renewal date is a little slow! Now, given that I renew my WP status fairly early each year, why can they not send out a new card at that point, to ensure continuity. Nothing like waving an expired card around to a BA lounge dragon and expecting to get access.
Who knows, this new card might even work in BA SSCI machines. The old one does in EI.
All that I can say is that the pidgeon must be rather tired. 8 weeks after renewal date is a little slow! Now, given that I renew my WP status fairly early each year, why can they not send out a new card at that point, to ensure continuity. Nothing like waving an expired card around to a BA lounge dragon and expecting to get access.
Who knows, this new card might even work in BA SSCI machines. The old one does in EI.
Apr 23, 2006, 3:24 am
#5
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold(OWE), QF LTG, MR Plat, IHG Spire, Hertz PC
Posts: 8,156
Originally Posted by spotwelder
All that I can say is that the pidgeon must be rather tired. 8 weeks after renewal date is a little slow! Now, given that I renew my WP status fairly early each year, why can they not send out a new card at that point, to ensure continuity. Nothing like waving an expired card around to a BA lounge dragon and expecting to get access.
Apr 23, 2006, 5:28 am
#6
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: SYD
Programs: OW Emerald, QF Plat, SPG Gold, HH Gold, AMEX Plat
Posts: 159
Originally Posted by Traveloguy
FWIW, I don't think they send out new cards until 3 or so months before the start of your new year membership year regardless of the fact you have requalified.
Apr 23, 2006, 5:33 am
#7
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: 1A
Programs: Elite Diamond Purple Dot Gold Silver Titanium for life
Posts: 1,821
Originally Posted by CdaWorld
how about for reaching a new level? As I've mentioned in another post, I qualified as WP and haven't received my card yet. It's been a few weeks and without the card I don't think I can recieve all benefits such as lounge access. I believe they need to sight the actual card as well as boarding pass for F lounge access.
Apr 23, 2006, 9:59 am
#8
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold(OWE), QF LTG, MR Plat, IHG Spire, Hertz PC
Posts: 8,156
Originally Posted by CdaWorld
how about for reaching a new level? As I've mentioned in another post, I qualified as WP and haven't received my card yet. It's been a few weeks and without the card I don't think I can recieve all benefits such as lounge access. I believe they need to sight the actual card as well as boarding pass for F lounge access.
Originally Posted by d00t
i swiped a few old cards i had on my own reader here and there is a bunch of interesting information stored on the card, but nowhere does it have your status. Old cards work perfectly when swiped as they access a DB with your up to date status. The only advantage of having a "new" card is the color scheme or to boost your ego
Out of interest, what else was stored on the card?