Hi guys,
I'm currently flying a fair bit for work and will hit QF Gold in a few months time. Unfortunately due to starting this part way through the year, although I'm flying enough to just about get Platinum over a whole year, I won't actually hit it for almost another 18 months.. so was thinking about speeding things up a little, with status matching if required.
Qantas won't give me a status challenge due to not having status on other airlines. I'll probably be travelling to LHR at some point in the next few months and some airlines offer fairly reasonable business class return tickets (e.g. Vietnam Airlines, for just over A$4000 SYD-LHR) so I'm tempted to try to use this trip to get to Elite+ or equivalent status with a different program, then ask Qantas to status match/challenge.
First problem, I'm not sure whether Elite+ is equivalent to oneworld Emerald. Second problem, I don't get quite enough miles with Vietnam Airlines to reach Elite+.
Does anyone have any thoughts about the best way to achieve QF Platinum in this situation? I'm likely to be 4-500 SCs short of Platinum by the end of this membership year, and I'm unfortunately not up for paying A$7000+ for a Qantas SYD-LHR business return.
Thanks
I'm currently flying a fair bit for work and will hit QF Gold in a few months time. Unfortunately due to starting this part way through the year, although I'm flying enough to just about get Platinum over a whole year, I won't actually hit it for almost another 18 months.. so was thinking about speeding things up a little, with status matching if required.
Qantas won't give me a status challenge due to not having status on other airlines. I'll probably be travelling to LHR at some point in the next few months and some airlines offer fairly reasonable business class return tickets (e.g. Vietnam Airlines, for just over A$4000 SYD-LHR) so I'm tempted to try to use this trip to get to Elite+ or equivalent status with a different program, then ask Qantas to status match/challenge.
First problem, I'm not sure whether Elite+ is equivalent to oneworld Emerald. Second problem, I don't get quite enough miles with Vietnam Airlines to reach Elite+.
Does anyone have any thoughts about the best way to achieve QF Platinum in this situation? I'm likely to be 4-500 SCs short of Platinum by the end of this membership year, and I'm unfortunately not up for paying A$7000+ for a Qantas SYD-LHR business return.
Thanks