Q Credits: Maximizing them
Jul 30, 2017, 3:12 am
#46
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 5,273
No problem, try this;
- Log in to your PC account
- Select your 'Dashboard' & along the top select the 'My Account' tab
- On the line underneath select the 'Q Calculator' option
- After the page refreshes scroll down to the box with drop down selections & enter your details, select 'calculate'
- A table should appear underneath, select the 'Award Upgrades' tab
- For DOH-HKT it should show 30 QPoints required for a Y-J one way upgrade, assuming your ticket is an applicable class (3rd line up from the bottom in the table)
Jul 30, 2017, 3:25 am
#47
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 3,944
NoY Qpoints can be earned for flights and are used only for adjudging status. You can use Qmiles or Qcredits for reward upgrades and Qmiles for reward flights.
To see the cost of an upgrade log on to your PC account and fill in the PC dashboard Qcalculator fields. Repeat this information together with the other required information. The next screen shows how many Qmiles and Qpoints you will earn for each ticket class. This is a tabbed page and the next tabs show the cost of reward flights, the cost of reward upgrades, cost of purchase of excess baggage allowance etc.
Use the Qcalculator from your PC dashboard so that Qcredit costs will also be shown.
Remember to check for reward availability before booking flights.
To see the cost of an upgrade log on to your PC account and fill in the PC dashboard Qcalculator fields. Repeat this information together with the other required information. The next screen shows how many Qmiles and Qpoints you will earn for each ticket class. This is a tabbed page and the next tabs show the cost of reward flights, the cost of reward upgrades, cost of purchase of excess baggage allowance etc.
Use the Qcalculator from your PC dashboard so that Qcredit costs will also be shown.
Remember to check for reward availability before booking flights.
Jul 30, 2017, 4:07 am
#48
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 5,273
NoY Qpoints can be earned for flights and are used only for adjudging status. You can use Qmiles or Qcredits for reward upgrades and Qmiles for reward flights.
To see the cost of an upgrade log on to your PC account and fill in the PC dashboard Qcalculator fields. Repeat this information together with the other required information. The next screen shows how many Qmiles and Qpoints you will earn for each ticket class. This is a tabbed page and the next tabs show the cost of reward flights, the cost of reward upgrades, cost of purchase of excess baggage allowance etc.
Use the Qcalculator from your PC dashboard so that Qcredit costs will also be shown.
Remember to check for reward availability before booking flights.
To see the cost of an upgrade log on to your PC account and fill in the PC dashboard Qcalculator fields. Repeat this information together with the other required information. The next screen shows how many Qmiles and Qpoints you will earn for each ticket class. This is a tabbed page and the next tabs show the cost of reward flights, the cost of reward upgrades, cost of purchase of excess baggage allowance etc.
Use the Qcalculator from your PC dashboard so that Qcredit costs will also be shown.
Remember to check for reward availability before booking flights.
) without having to buy the Y tix first & then finding out I have not got enough Q Credits.
Jul 30, 2017, 6:08 am
#50
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 5,273
Jul 30, 2017, 6:15 am
#51
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 5,273
Another question arises. I have 40 Q credits unused. Having already re-qulaified for Gold again a few weeks back should I get another 40 Q credits? therefore totalling 80 now? I don’t BTW, I still am showing just 40.
Jul 30, 2017, 7:15 am
#52
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 3,944
NoY Qcredits are awarded either when you first reach Gold or at the annual review. They are not awarded when you reach the requalifing level for Gold since much can happen between then and your annual review. You will be awarded 40 Qcredits, as your previous years Qcredits expire, if you retain Gold status at your annual review.
Jul 30, 2017, 10:36 pm
#53
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 5,273
NoY Qcredits are awarded either when you first reach Gold or at the annual review. They are not awarded when you reach the requalifing level for Gold since much can happen between then and your annual review. You will be awarded 40 Qcredits, as your previous years Qcredits expire, if you retain Gold status at your annual review.
Oct 14, 2018, 6:11 pm
#55
Join Date: Aug 2017
Programs: FLYINGBLUE Gold QRPC Gold OMAN SINDBAD Gold
Posts: 408
OK, thanks. It’s spending the pesky 40 Q Credits that I trying to fathom. How many needed for upgrade Y-J - in this case DOH-HKT (they couldn’t make it anymore complicated - Q this, Q that, Q the other etc ) without having to buy the Y tix first & then finding out I have not got enough Q Credits.
) without having to buy the Y tix first & then finding out I have not got enough Q Credits.
Oct 14, 2018, 8:59 pm
#56
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 5,273
) "process" though - bye bye QR ^
Dec 31, 2018, 7:03 pm
#57
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 5,273
Just tried burning the very last of my Q Credits for an Upgrade on two consecutive flights (there is standard reward availability for both sectors) - got all the way to processing of payment etc etc & then finally got a screen showing me a "Service Request" number........what can I expect next & how long for a response/resolution? Thanks.
Jan 1, 2019, 5:31 pm
#58
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 5,273
Just tried burning the very last of my Q Credits for an Upgrade on two consecutive flights (there is standard reward availability for both sectors) - got all the way to processing of payment etc etc & then finally got a screen showing me a "Service Request" number........what can I expect next & how long for a response/resolution? Thanks.
Jan 4, 2019, 7:03 pm
#59
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: ZRH
Programs: QRPC
Posts: 228
I can answer my own question as nobody seems to have ever encountered this issue...it took 4 hours to receive confirmation from QRPC that my flights were booked & to follow a link to pay the small value charges in order to have the flights ticketed. All done. Stunned, to be very frank.
Jan 5, 2019, 1:43 am
#60
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Platinum, Marriott Gold, Amex Platinum
Posts: 5,273
Did you have unconfirmed schedule changes in your booking? I recall seing the same thing when I had an unconfirmed time change in my booking and tried to upgrade one of the legs. It showed availability, I confirmed the upgrade, then got a service request number. Only to hear from QR that there is no availability.