If attaining a higher status in the first month of your FF calendar year is it possible to therefore retain that status for 23 months?

Cheers

Yes. As soon as you reach a new level, you have it for the remainder of the current year and the following year.

many thanks

You can do better than that if you set your mind to it. e.g. Take flights during January which will get you status. Early February, join the FF scheme. You will end up with a 13 month period since it will run till end of feb next year. Get the flights credited for the previous month and you will now have status which will last for 25 months

Dave

Thanks Dave

However have been a FF member for some time

Unless QF make allowances for travel (breaching the T&C of QFF) in a the period prior to membership you cannot claim milage & status for flights prior to being a member.

Has anyone had any experience with this?

http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/program/terms

9.1.2 Points can only be earned in relation to acquiring goods or services or other transactions made by the Member after the Member's enrolment date.

I believe you are entitled to claim any travel 14 days prior to joining, at least this was the case in 95

That certainly wasn't the case when I joined (Jan 96): I was able to get credit for a flight I had made a few weeks previously. Possibly the rules have been tightened since then?

Last march I enrolled someone into the scheme and was able to get mileage/status credits for QF flights going back to early January. It was necessary to have the full flight information , but the person was able to check each flight I quoted to him over the phone and credit immediately

Dave

Same when I joined - I joined mid Jan 2000, and had a flight creditted late November 1999.

Dave

What Dave - you've only been a member since 2000? Gee, and I thought you were a FF guru not a FF newbie !!!!!

Yeah, you need an FF number starting with 00 to be a somebody around here .

"Yeah, you need an FF number starting with 00 to be a somebody around here "

NM, not true, I am learning a lot from reading your posts, plus contributions by thadocta, shillard and many others. Really appreciate the efforts you put in on the board. I joined FF in early 90's ..number is 0010XXX. I joined my son up in December and his FF # is 4.1 million plus.

How the program has grown.

Again thanks for your contributions - I am sure all the other silent lurkers appreciate it too.

JohnSydney2000, welcome aboard. Please do contribute and join the discussions - as off beat as they may get from time to time. 4 posts in 5 months is very restrained!

The 00xxxxx FF numbers are a bit of an anomoly. If you joined in early 90's and have a 001 number, it is a fair bet you joined the Australian Airlines FF program or were even a Flight Deck member prior to the FF program commencing. The AA (better call it TN so we don't continue to offend our friends from over the big pond) program was merged with QF later, but the FF numbers remained the same (just added the 00 to the front to make them 7 digits long).

So people who joined the QF program prior to the TN merger may well have been members longer and have a higher number. Once the programs were merged, new numbers were allocated in such a way as to be unique, not reflective of you position in the joining queue. So a number of 4 million does not mean you are the 4 million's member.

But I do get comments even from QF people about the low number. According to my card, I joined in 91 (oh my, that is why I have such a pile of FF statements in the filing cabinet - time to sort again). I think it was soon after the TN FF program commenced. Anyone who was a Flight Deck member prior to the FF program will have an even lower number, which I guess is where you 001 number originates from.

Wow, learn something every day.

For a time now I've wondered what the "Flight Deck Number" on our Travel Requisition forms at the office meant. The thing hasn't been updated in, what, over 10 years?