Hi folks. First post.
Since starting in a new job this year, I fly a fair bit for work. In the last two months, with a bit of personal travel and some work travel, I've easily acquired PS earlier this week. With planned travel (both business and pleasure) coming up, making SG is my goal, and I have until 30 Sep '12 to do it. Eaasy - we already have a SYD-AKL trip in May coming up, and a few domestic personal trips too.
However, I'm looking at a couple of Status Run options to keep up my sleeve just in case time runs short.. and I've been doing some calculations on what the best value SC's are. See, I don't have a huge number of points saved up, though I do earn around 15,000 of them a month from credit card and partner spending.
From Sydney, these are the two best value routes I've found for earning SC's. Note, as I'll be paying cash (or mostly cash) for these, they aren't JASA seats, because I don't have the points to make much of a difference to the cash price.
SYD - BRI - TSV (and return) in standard economy class (Y) costs around $670 and earns 100 SC. This works out to be $6.70 per SC. Reasonable value.
SYD - MEL - HBA (and return), also in Y, costs $539 and earns 80 SC. This also works out at around $6.70 per SC.
Best value, albeit an international hop, is SYD - AKL on Lan J class. Cost is $750 return, and earns 160 SC. Cost works out to be $4.70 per SC.
Does anyone know of any routes that offer better value ex Syd, or where positioning flights are relatively cheap?
Since starting in a new job this year, I fly a fair bit for work. In the last two months, with a bit of personal travel and some work travel, I've easily acquired PS earlier this week. With planned travel (both business and pleasure) coming up, making SG is my goal, and I have until 30 Sep '12 to do it. Eaasy - we already have a SYD-AKL trip in May coming up, and a few domestic personal trips too.
However, I'm looking at a couple of Status Run options to keep up my sleeve just in case time runs short.. and I've been doing some calculations on what the best value SC's are. See, I don't have a huge number of points saved up, though I do earn around 15,000 of them a month from credit card and partner spending.
From Sydney, these are the two best value routes I've found for earning SC's. Note, as I'll be paying cash (or mostly cash) for these, they aren't JASA seats, because I don't have the points to make much of a difference to the cash price.
SYD - BRI - TSV (and return) in standard economy class (Y) costs around $670 and earns 100 SC. This works out to be $6.70 per SC. Reasonable value.
SYD - MEL - HBA (and return), also in Y, costs $539 and earns 80 SC. This also works out at around $6.70 per SC.
Best value, albeit an international hop, is SYD - AKL on Lan J class. Cost is $750 return, and earns 160 SC. Cost works out to be $4.70 per SC.
Does anyone know of any routes that offer better value ex Syd, or where positioning flights are relatively cheap?
