How many Status Credits to remain GOLD

[sanne]

My husband and I will be turning GOLD this year. How many status points will I need next year to keep my status?

I would be very pleased to hear your comments about this scenario..............

I always travel with my husband. We have about 600,000 points between us at the moment, most of them are in my name. If I use my points to get J awards for my husband and buy the ticket for myself, he would therefore drop his status and I would hopefully retain mine. Would this then become an advantage in choice of seats and availabilty of award and paid flights for both of us, since I'll have the status and the points and will do the bookings for me and my husband from my account.

I have looked at JASA which we'll use where possible, but probably not feasible for 1 way flights to London and the US ( we cruise so do a lot of one way flights )

I hope that you can make sense of what I'm trying to say. Just trying to look outside the square and perhaps make the system work advantageously for us.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, will welcome any comments about this.

 

[drewbles]

The first chart on this web page clearly states earn and re-qualify requirements:
Frequent Flyer - About the Program - Benefits & Privileges
So, Gold is 700 to attain and 600 to retain.

 

[opusman]

If you always travel together and your husband is on classic award tickets, there's probably little benefit gained in you both being gold.

 

[medhead]

ASA should be just as feasible for one way flights as classic awards. In fact if you can get a classic award then you should be book a JASA instead. I don't think you'll get any benefit of your status if booking one paid and one award ticket since they will be separate bookings which makes things like seat selection a bit difficult.


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[serfty]

An xASA oneway is generally in the same ballpark as a Classic award.

For example, today I can access a JASA SYD-xSIN-LHR for August 13, 2013 for 2 people at a cost of 180K QFF points each (or 128K QFF + $640).

This would earn 280 SC's and 16K QFF points (for an NB), an SG earns 24K.

The same route as a classic award costs 128K + $532 and earns nothing.

 

[ashleyn]

An xASA oneway is generally in the same ballpark as a Classic award.

For example, today I can access a JASA SYD-xSIN-LHR for August 13, 2013 for 2 people at a cost of 180K QFF points each (or 128K QFF + $640).

This would earn 280 SC's and 16K QFF points (for an NB), an SG earns 24K.



The same route as a classic award costs 128K + $532 and earns nothing.

I've been looking at SIN-LHR and JASA always comes to around 1mil points, how do you get it down to those numbers (sorry if I'm off track).

 

[serfty]

I've been looking at SIN-LHR and JASA always comes to around 1mil points, how do you get it down to those numbers (sorry if I'm off track).

What dates are you looking at?

In any case, you need to look for classic inventory on solely QF flight numbers first, and this appears to be quite scarce. if you can find it, it's 120K QFF (or 84K points and SGD512) for the JASA (84K & SGD370 in +++ for a Business classic).


FWIW, SIN-FRA has far better availability in Business class which might be an option, JASA is 109K QFF (or 84K & SGD382).