Qantas Frequent Flyer is currently offering up to 50% bonus on Top-up Points purchases before 27 June 2026. We wouldn’t typically recommend buying points from Qantas because it’s usually not the best value. But with a 50% bonus, it could definitely be worth considering if you’re booking reward travel and don’t want a rewards credit card.
Buying Qantas Points Top-ups is also a fast-track way to reach Points Club and Points Club Plus status or simply boost your Frequent Flyer membership tier. Perks for these high-earning members include complimentary lounge passes – or even a full Qantas Club membership.
Keep in mind, Qantas still offers both Points Club and Points Club Plus which reward members who earn large quantities of Qantas Points. However, Qantas has confimed that both programs will be retired later in 2026 as part of the changes to the Frequent Flyer Program.
The current Qantas Top-up Points promotions
| Expiry: 11:59 pm AEDT 27 June 2026 |
- Offer: 50% bonus points.
- Buy 1,000 – 15,000 Qantas Points = no bonus.
- Buy 15,000 – 95,000 Qantas Points = 25% bonus.
- Buy 100,000 – 150,000 Qantas Points = 50% bonus.
- Valid until: 27 June 2026.
- Use Qantas Points for: reward seats on Qantas and partner airlines, including oneworld members, Emirates and more, or upgrade your flights with points.
This promotion yields a decent per-point price of 1.78 cents when buying 225,000 points for AU$3,999. You can get far more value than that when redeeming for Business and First Class flights, but generally not for Economy flights. As usual, we’d only suggest buying points if you have a specific reward flight in mind.
As long as your Frequent Flyer membership account is more than 30 days old, you can buy Top-up Points up to four times in a 12-month period. If you want to buy points for multiple family members, consider splitting up the purchases. Each family member could benefit from the purchase and get closer to their next membership tier.
A Service Fee of A$35 will apply for Top Up Points purchased through the Frequent Flyer Service Centre.
Offer history
Qantas Top-up Points offers are few and far between. But we’ve started keeping track of these deals from 2026, so hopefully we’ll see more deals in the future.
| Date | Bonus offer (%) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| June 2026 | 50 | highest (tiered from 15,000 points) |
Summing up
Qantas Frequent Flyer is a popular program, but keep in mind that it costs many more points for the same flights than some other partner programs like Mileage Plan or AAdvantage. Qantas Top-up Points is usually poor value, but a 50% bonus sweetens the deal somewhat.
This promo is probably best for those who want to boost their Qantas Points balance, but without the fuss of dealing with overseas programs. If that’s you, go for it. And of course, the boost to Points Club or Points Club Plus status is handy as well, while it’s still available. Just be sure to aim for Business or First Class reward flights.
If you want to know all your other options, check out our dedicated guide on other ways to buy Qantas Points. After all, one can never have enough Qantas Points.
Of course it’s possible to get more points for your spending in other ways, but buying points in these promotions can be completely worthwhile. You need to be careful that it’s the right time to do so, it won’t always be a good idea. Even buying at 2 cents per points, for me, when I include the ‘free’ ones from flights and cards, and those that effectively cost 1 cent because I could redeem those reward points for cash instead (Woolworths and Amex MR) my average cost of points is about 0.3 cents. It’s possible, even in economy, to redeem them for more than 2 cents most of the time (if I can’t, I’ll pay cash). Travelling in the US it’s often possible to get economy reward seats on American at 3, 4 or even 5 cents per point, even a few days out.
While I can’t remember seeing a 50% bonus before (I take your word for 2021), I have bought points most of the past three or four years at a 45% bonus (chasing points club), and I’m quite prepared to do it again. With the new Qantas classic international rewards search feature, at the moment it’s easy to find J-class QF or FJ seats to the US west coast one to two weeks out (130K one way), fewer seats on partner airlines (for more), or on Emirates for ridiculous amounts (299K +$2.4K in F). (I’m in a position to take such options, I realise not everyone is.)
Why would you buy the points, even with the 50% bonus, when you can accrue similar numbers of points per dollar through QF wine and get to drink (or gift) the wine?
It’s possible to earn in excess of 50 points per dollar (especially if you stack your business rewards, with credit card earn, with premium wine membership, with bonus, with coupon (currently MERRY for 50$ off for a $250 or more purchase)), sometimes even 70 plus points per dollar.
It makes absolutely no sense to buy points from QF without the grog to sweeten the deal!