Article: Is Qantas or Velocity Status Harder to Earn?

[justinbrett]

lol indeed. Switch the topic to overseas & look over there ...

The article is not about flying domestically.

I’m pretty sure you fit in the group of people I was referring to:

Its been a factor sometimes. For instance, some upcoming bookings to MAD on QR could either originate in CGK or SIN. QR has a premium own lounge in SIN but a Plaza Premium lounge in CGK. SO that was a tick towards SIN.

 

[Hampton Mike]

Its pretty well covered what some of the optimal status runs are in the status run master thread that the OOL-MEL-AKL J runs are among the highest earning. Pair that with some DSC cinematography and you'll get some very cheap status.

There's a few other crazy routes youll find but those tend to be overseas based. Just a note 18k is expensive for a P1 run. You can achieve that much lower if you know what you're doing.

Recent special OOL-MEL-AKL return for $1495 in business yielding 560 SCs per trip (based on DSC). Four status runs for $5980 = 2240 SCs leaving another 1360 to be obtained from other trips. Easy to get if you go to Europe on $ once on DSCs in business class.

 

[antycbr]

VA should be cheaper when you consider the limited attractions of VAs lounge network, the caveats on partner lounge access and lack of differentiation between Gold and Platinum/Business lounges.

Comparing status earn cost isn’t really that meaningful when the bundle of contractual rights you get is so vastly different.

 

[The Flying Brick]

VA Status earning is now just a sad joke.

E.g. Flight from CNS-BNE-SYD in J used to earn 135 Status credits.
Last Saturday the same flights in J earned me only 53 Status Credits in total.

Virgin have gone to the dogs.

And they seem to care much more about them than their Business class passengers.