Less than five years after introducing Green Tier, Qantas is sending the sustainability-based sub-status directly to landfill. Green Tier rewards Qantas Frequent Flyers for making sustainable choices at home and while travelling, and sits alongside regular status in the same way Points Club does. Once unlocked, Green Tier members choose between 10,000 bonus Qantas Points or 50 Status Credits.
But from 8 December 2026, Qantas will retire Green Tier. From that date, Green Tier will immediately cease to exist, and members who have not selected a bonus reward will have 90 days to make their choice.
Depending on your situation, it could still be worth unlocking Green Tier before December, in order to earn an easy 10,000 Qantas Points or 50 Status Credits.
To earn Qantas Green Tier, members must complete at least five sustainable activities across six categories: flying, travel, lifestyle, shopping, learning, and giving back. This guide focuses on earning Qantas Green Tier as cheaply and quickly as possible, before the program disappears for good.
1. Flying - Carbon Offset Your Next Flight
Like many airlines these days, Qantas offers its customers the option to pay for a carbon offset on their flight booking. Qantas used to match these contributions, but quietly stopped doing so in 2024.
You can offset your carbon emissions on the payment page when booking a Qantas flight, or afterwards via the ‘Manage My Booking’ portal. The cost to fly carbon neutral varies by flight distance, but many domestic flights are under $10.
As we want to achieve Qantas Green Tier cheaply, it’s best to offset your shortest flight. Members also earn 10 Qantas Points per dollar spent offsetting flights.
2. Travelling - Book An Eco Hotel
To unlock the ‘Travelling’ Green Tier leaf, you will need to book and stay at least one night at an eco-accredited hotel via Qantas Hotels. There are 35 hotels around Australia that are eligible, as listed on the Qantas Hotels website here.
Many of the eligible hotels are on the expensive side, but Qantas has recently expanded the list to include a few budget options. Still, this category will often cost the most to unlock, if we’re assuming you weren’t going to book the hotel otherwise. Ideally, you will be able to unlock this leaf on an existing trip at a cheap rate.
3. Lifestyle - Energy & Recycling
Qantas has made the ‘Lifestyle’ leaf much harder to unlock recently. Members could previously purchase a home and car offset package for as little as $50. There are now two ways to achieve this category:
- Add GreenPower to a Qantas Red Saver electricity plan with Red Energy (excludes TAS, WA, and NT)
- Link RecycleSmart to your Qantas account and complete 3 pickups within 6 months
If you already use Red Energy this could be an easy add on, depending on the up-charge. For RecycleSmart, they charge $19 monthly, so you’d be up for $57 if completed within three months.
4. Shopping - Offset Your Wine Delivery
Qantas Wine partners with a number of sustainable winegrowing producers and wineries, and awards a Green Tier leaf for purchasing one of these products.
The fine print states that “There is no minimum spend - simply purchase any case of six or 12 bottles from one of our certified wine producers” although we have always had success purchasing a single Green Tier eligible bottle. Qantas Wine clearly lists single bottles as being eligible in the image and item description, so you’d have a solid argument if it was not credited.
You can locate eligible products on the Green Tier Wine & Spirits page at Qantas Wine, or by using the Flight Hacks Qantas Wine Tracker. Our tracker also uncovers the latest Qantas Wine bonus offers, with an option to receive alerts when Qantas Wine drops new offers.
5. Learning - Complete The Sustainability Quiz
This Green Tier leaf is the easiest to obtain. All you have to do is download the Qantas Wellbeing App and complete a two-minute sustainability quiz. You’ll even be rewarded with 100 bonus Qantas Points on completion.
Note that if you have done the quiz in the past, it typically disappears from the Wellbeing App. Most members receive the ‘Learning’ leaf automatically in subsequent years.
6. Give Back - Make A Donation
To unlock another Green Tier leaf you can make a donation via this page on Qantas Marketplace. The minimum donation is 3,130 Qantas Points, which is equivalent to a $25 donation. There used to be an option to donate cash instead of points, but this has been removed.
The projects eligible for Green Tier are:
- Great Barrier Reef Foundation
- Kimberley Land Council
- Ozharvest
- UNICEF
Summing Up: My Take
With five steps, you can meet the requirements to unlock Qantas’ Green Tier and be on your way to selecting your reward. As a reminder, Qantas will retire Green Tier on 8 December 2026. If unlocked by then, you will have 90 days to choose a reward.
