Advice: Will miss platinum because short of additional 220 status creds

[mkng]

Dear all
Thanks for all the info, I've had a concise crash course accruing SC to get over the Q platinum threshold.
Amazing Im simply going to fly not for a destination, but for platinum, albeit it will last for one year.
The odd thing, for the next year, I wont see myself travelling as much as I did previously, and now there is that incentive to try to make the most of the status
Need to spend more money for trips!
Cheers alll

 

[Kefci2000]

Yikes, thanks so much for this. Should have read the fineprint.

So checking a one way flight: a classic award (no earn sC) from MEL-Cairns is 36000 points vs 126,100 points for Any Seat
Certainly a price/point difference: guess is it worth shelling out 250k points (return) just to get me over to platinum...dliemma!

280k points gets you a round the world business fare which is $14000

is Platinum really worth that much?

 

[Robbi]

Yikes, thanks so much for this. Should have read the fineprint.

So checking a one way flight: a classic award (no earn sC) from MEL-Cairns is 36000 points vs 126,100 points for Any Seat
Certainly a price/point difference: guess is it worth shelling out 250k points (return) just to get me over to platinum...dliemma!

280k points gets you a round the world business fare which is $14000

is Platinum really worth that much?

You should be able to do it for fewer points than 126k and a copayment of few hundred dollars. Check the spreadsheet. You can do ADL-BNE-TSV for 48k + $360 return must be similar MEL-BNE-CNS.

 

[JohnK]

but earn no SC"s.

See post 27 for clarification.

Understood. I was replying to the dilemma in that post.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

If your JASA as an international sector eg CNS/MEL/AKL which I think is the same amount of points as just CNS/MEL, you can have a stopover at your gateway city of MEL so at the time of reservation you can book eg CNS/MEL 10 Mar & MEL/AKL 10 Apr then just purchase a cheap one way fare AKL/MEL to get you home. It's one way to get more bang for your buck so if you want to take SWMBO to AKL for just a weekend eg birthday or anniversary it's a nice way to kick it off.