October 2026

Westpac added Status Credits to a Qantas card offer, and Qantas opened a short domestic reward-seat sale. Here is the news from 5–11 October 2026 . Westpac adds Status Credits to its Qantas Black offer On 8 October, Westpac announced that eligible new Westpac Altitude Qantas Blac...

Card surcharge rules changed, CommBank Awards became Yello points, and NAB began Velocity auto-redemption offers. Here is what happened from 28 September to 4 October 2026 . Card surcharge rules changed on 1 October The Reserve Bank of Australia says its ban on card networks' no-...