Qantas Frequent Flyers will quickly have entry to extra premium cabin reward seats and associate airways, the bottom Financial system reward seat fares in Australia and the power to earn extra factors when flying, in a collection of adjustments to the airline’s loyalty program.
The adjustments may also see the primary enhance to Traditional Reward seat fares in six years, in accordance with the Flying Kangaroo.
In 2024, Qantas unlocked 4 occasions the variety of reward seats for members following the profitable introduction of Traditional Plus.
As well as, a report variety of Traditional Reward seats had been booked by members and the variety of seats made accessible by way of airline companions elevated by nearly a 3rd.
In 2025, members may have entry to as much as 1 million extra Traditional Reward seats, together with in premium cabins and with a spread of current and new world airline companions.
Qantas has additionally introduced an extra 1 million seats will go on sale this week, together with Traditional Plus Reward seats for as little as 6,200 factors throughout greater than 100 routes round Australia.
The brand new loyalty program adjustments to be rolled out for members over the following 12 months, embody:
-Boosting the variety of factors members will earn on Qantas home flights by as much as 25 per cent and eradicating the earn cap for tiered members travelling in premium cabins, set to ship nearly 4 billion further factors for members every year;
-The introduction of the bottom one-way Financial system reward seat in Australia, with Jetstar quick haul home flights in Australia and New Zealand for five,700 factors, serving to members to earn their reward seat quicker; and
-Unlocking as much as 1 million extra Traditional Reward seats, with flagship companions Finnair, Air France, KLM and Iberia in premium cabins, and throughout your entire Hawaiian Airways community.
Qantas Frequent Flyer may also enhance the variety of factors required for Traditional Upgrades and Traditional Reward seats on home and worldwide flights, and associate airways for bookings from August 2025.
Qantas Loyalty CEO, Andrew Look, mentioned Qantas Frequent Flyer has grown considerably over the past 4 a long time and remained targeted on innovating this system to reward loyal members.
“Journey stays the primary precedence for our members in how they earn and redeem their factors, with 13,000 Traditional Reward seats booked day by day, together with 1,000 Traditional seats in premium cabins to worldwide locations,” he mentioned.
“As well as, 1000’s of Traditional Upgrades are confirmed each week on Qantas flights. These adjustments are designed to additional improve the methods our members can e-book Traditional Reward seats and the locations and cabins they’ll entry after they fly.
“Traditional Plus, which represents a $120 million funding in this system, has been a sport changer since launching final April.
“Bookings are up threefold on preliminary expectations and over the December vacation interval we noticed an 80 per cent enhance in members travelling abroad with their factors.
“We’ve additionally launched practically 20 gross sales since Traditional Plus was launched and introduced one other sale yesterday, discounting hundreds of thousands of reward seats for members throughout all cabin sorts.
“We now have partnerships with over 45 airways, giving members higher flexibility and selection in how they need to be rewarded.
“The addition of Hawaiian Airways and extra premium cabin seats with Finnair, Air France, KLM and Iberia will later this yr start unlocking as much as 1 million further Traditional seats and extra alternatives for our members to make use of their factors to e-book that dream abroad journey.
“This yr will see our members earn a further 4 billion factors because of a rise in factors earned when travelling domestically and the elimination of the earn cap for tiered members travelling in our premium cabins.
“This implies tiered members flying in premium cabins domestically require fewer flights to earn their subsequent reward reserving.
“We’re additionally introducing the bottom reward seat fare in Australia, with Jetstar seats for five,700 factors on all quick haul home routes like Sydney to the Gold Coast and Melbourne to Adelaide, serving to members get away quicker.
“That is just the start of a broader suite of adjustments to Jetstar rewards that may ship even higher worth for members in 2025 and past.
From August 2025, the variety of factors required to e-book a Traditional Reward seat will enhance for the primary time since 2019 and the second time since 2004.
“So much has modified within the final six years. These changes will guarantee we will proceed to spend money on enhancing this system for the long-term and proceed to develop the degrees of Traditional and Traditional Plus Reward seat availability for members yr on yr,” Look mentioned.
“With plenty of airways making adjustments to their loyalty applications just lately, we wished to provide our members as a lot discover as potential to allow them to plan their future journey. That’s why our reward fare adjustments gained’t come into impact for at the very least one other six months.”
