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Qantas Frequent Flyer Credit Cards

By Richard Greenwood

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As in most frequent flyer programs, flying more often is the fastest way to earn Qantas points for the Qantas frequent flyer program. By flying Qantas, or with any oneworld alliance airline or Qantas partner airline, you will earn 1 point for every mile. Qantas and nine other airlines participate in the alliance, which should make it quite easy for you — especially if you fly a lot.

For the frequent flyer, earning Qantas points will be even faster if you are qualified for higher levels in the Status program within the Qantas Frequent Flyer program. For every eligible flight you take on Qantas, oneworld alliance airlines, Air Pacific, Jetstar or QantasLink services, you are allocated Status Credits. The most basic level is Bronze, but once you reach Silver (350 credits needed to qualify), Gold (700 credits) and Platinum (1,400 credits), your potential for earning Qantas points is progressively accelerated. For each eligible flight you take, you receive bonus Qantas points that vary from 25% extra for Silver membership, 50% extra for Gold, and 100% extra for Platinum, on top of the normal Qantas points earned.

You also earn Qantas points when you use your Qantas Frequent Flyer credit cards at any of their 350 partner establishments worldwide, which include car rental companies, parking facilities, car purchases, hotels, arrangements for travel (foreign exchange, insurance, calling cards, foreign exchange, etc.), financial products and services, fashion and entertainment, gifts, many types of services, and even real estate.

If you do not fly too often, the easiest way to amass Qantas points is to maximise the travel rewards you receive by using Qantas frequent flyer credit cards or Qantas partner credit cards to pay for spending on ordinary purchases. The number of Qantas points you earn will depend on the specific travel rewards schemes offered by the Qantas-affiliated bank credit cards.

The bank credit cards that directly earn Qantas points on their travel rewards partnership with Qantas are: the Westpac Earth series (classic, gold and platinum), the ANZ Aust. Frequent Flyer Visa (classic, gold and platinum), the Qantas frequent flyer credit cards from American Express (classic, premium and ultimate), the Diners Club (Aust.) Frequent Flyer charge card, and the ANZ NZ Visa (classic and platinum).

The big advantage to you when using these Direct-Earn cards is that the Qantas points earned on your everyday purchases with them are automatically included in your Qantas Frequent Flyer account. In addition, if you use any of them to pay for eligible purchases at any of Qantas' 350 partner establishments, you stand to earn Qantas points two times — once on your card's travel rewards scheme and once more through the partner establishment.

There are credit cards whose travel rewards schemes are linked to the Qantas Frequent Flyer Other Rewards program. The credit cards on the Qantas Other Rewards program are: American Express Membership Rewards (Ascent Australia and NZ), ANZ Rewards Visa, Citibank Rewards (classic and platinum), Diners Club Rewards, NAB (gold rewards and Ant Rewards), St George private bank platinum rewards, Suncorp clear options, and Westpac Altitude.

You may also use these cards to earn Qantas points, but you will need to watch out. Qantas have announced that starting April 1, 2009, the points earned through these credit cards will no longer be convertible to Qantas points. This means you have until March 31, 2009 to arrange for conversion.

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