I know QRPC rightfully gets a bunch of crap for not being very good to their members, from devaluations to bad lounges at DOH for elites, but as someone who just recently entered the QR ecosystem, QR has made it remarkably easy for me to reach high level elite status with them and subsequently OW. With the smart use of promotional offers, a single rt from the US east coast to SE Asia in J (r-fare bucket) has netted me QR gold and with a subsequent trip to SE Asia coming up, I should be QR platinum by mid-year, and have OW emerald status. I can’t think of another airline where one can reach the highest level status on such few trips. Perhaps that’s why they are devaluing the program? But regardless, as long as QR remains in OW, I am quite happy crediting these trips on QR (which were lovely flights) to QRPC. Just to put it into context, I’ve long flown Delta/Skyteam for domestic/TATL trips and even in paid J, it usually will take me until October to get the mqm’s to reach DL plat and I’m usually just at the cusp of reach diamond by years end (didn’t make it last year, and this is without the use of airline branded credit cards).

In late February, when I booked my first QR trip to SE Asia I saw a promo for double qpoints and qmiles for a certain booking period and I fell in that period. Now yesterday I saw another promo for double qpoints for flights booked before May 6th and using that promo I just booked another SE Asia trip. Hence, I’m at 320 now and should be at 640 by mid year. Note, these weren’t targeted offers or anything (I wasn’t even a member of QRPC when I saw the first offer), all I needed to do was register the offer from the “my offers” tab on the QRPC website. Yes, getting status this fast means booking tickets during certain promotional periods, but the fact is that there have been a double qpoint promo about once a quarter so far this year, which indicates this seems to be quite a common practice by QR.