Some of you may recall the launch of Red Planet back in 2015, which is the survey arm of Qantas Loyalty. Yet, despite its loose affiliation with Qantas Frequent Flyer, most of the surveys are general market research. The main draw is the ability to earn a handful of Qantas Points with each successful survey you complete.
As of October 2021, Red Planet is not accepting new signups, though you can register your interest instead. We’ve updated this guide from 2016 to remind existing members about how the program works. We’ll also let you know if Red Planet opens registrations again or offers a big prize.
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What is Red Planet?
Red Planet is a low-key survey panel affiliated with Qantas Frequent Flyer. Members can sign-up and complete surveys to earn Qantas Points. The results are used to better target Qantas’ own digital advertising, and generate high-level consumer trends and insights to share with other advertisers.
If you opt-in to Qantas marketing emails, you’ll usually receive an invite for Red Planet in your inbox when registrations are open again. Once you sign up, you’ll have access to ‘The Portal’ where you can see pending surveys and how many points you’ve earned so far.
How many Qantas Points do I earn from Red Planet?
Like most survey rewards programs, you don’t earn a lot of points overall. You’ll usually pocket 150-250 Qantas Points per successful survey, or nothing if you’re not a match.
As always, you’re never going to be points-rich from completing surveys. But the extra points could prove handy one day if you’re just a bit short of a big reward seat booking.
Summing up
If you’re interested in trying out Red Planet, you’ll just have to wait for Qantas to send you an invitation. Alternatively, register your interest on this page. Red Planet is one way for you to burn some spare time while getting rewarded. Who knows, maybe your opinions will also influence Qantas’ products or policies one day!
This article was originally written by Keith Mason.
I have been a member of QFF since 1997, and a loyal customer, but since being forced to travel on other airlines in the oneworld group, Qantas is like travelling on a third world plane.
Why do classic rewards and points plus pay, have such a variation in points needed, more than 4 fold, a practical impossibility to earn.
They need to stop all this advertising to earn money and get back to grass roots and become an airline, with decent seats, places to travel to in Aus. with decent prices. we find it is cheaper to go O/S.
Is this a dead site, died of natural causes and nobody is there to tell us that this site is no longer functioning!?
I did get the initial email but didn’t register. How can I register now ?
The website is asking for a password ?
Thanks
Dan
Personally, I become less committed to QF each year, pricing is uncompetitive internationally, VA is a far more competitive airline, with a better culture and in my personal experience a better understanding of customer loyalty, and its value.
Personally I am not against surveys of this nature provided that they’re not formatted badly or ask really convoluted questions. This happens way, way too often.
There was overlap on approx. 25% between the 2 surveys which was poor and could have easily been overcome but these areas of overlap were very quick to answer so not a dealbreaker.
My personal opinion is that I don’t really mind organisations like Qantas having this type of info, especially if it gives them a better understanding of who I am, thus enabling more specific and relevant marketing towards me. Hell, they’re going to market to all of us anyway so why not get content that I may actually want to receive? (unfortunately in reality almost no companies actually use the data they collect for personalised marketing but that’s a whole other issue)
Sure the incentive needs work but I think they’re just dipping their tow in the water and will probably gauge response rates before tweaking the offers.