Looking to complete the AA Plat challenge, need a mileage run.

[_Clifton_]

So I hope this is the right forum for this. I haven't really seen a mileage run help forum.

I need about 1500 EQP to make the 10,000 EQP needed for the Platinum challenge before end of March.

I'm have a good amount of QFF points that I can use for repositioning from Perth, but haven't had any luck with finding flights at a reasonable cost-per-mile.

If anyone's done something like this, I'd love to hear your advice.

 

[_Clifton_]

Bump. Just want to make sure this is the best forum to ask this. Or would flight assistance be better?

 

[serfty]

Maybe you just bite the bullet with a return trip from Perth?

The cheapest trans-cons sadly book into E class which don't earn with AA.

$821 PER-SIN return in O (sale) class one way and S (saver) the other will garner 1830 of the precious EQP's.

Here's one out of the box - look on expedia.br for a PER-SIN round trip.

Via SYD each way with BA to/from SIN comes up at at varying prices from around $830 but seems to book into L/N/V classes with which the PER/SYD flights alone would cross the line.

 

[_Clifton_]

Thanks for that info. I was noticing the "E" fare which didn't show up anywhere on the AA website. That's too bad.

The PER-SIN direct prices on matrix at $300 (great!), but expedia.br is charging a $60 fee (yikes!).

 

[Oxy]

but expedia.br is charging a $60 fee (yikes!).

There's plenty of info around here on how to avoid this

 

[Oxy]

Via SYD each way with BA to/from SIN comes up at at varying prices from around $830 but seems to book into L/N/V classes with which the PER/SYD flights alone would cross the line.

You could combine this into a multi-city with BA in W, doing the PER-SYD now, and saving SYD-SIN-SYD-PER for later. The transcon books into B class

 

[Oxy]

Or you could try PE with CX if you book in the next few days: https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_AU/latest-offers.html

 

[vitagen]

Not sure if CX is included in the plat challenge?

 

[serfty]

The $300 fare books into O class each way leaving you 120 or so EQP's short.

If you can dig up an ~$500 fare I would assume S class or similar one way which would do the trick.

 

[Oxy]

Not sure if CX is included in the plat challenge?

Good point!

 

[_Clifton_]

There's plenty of info around here on how to avoid this

Hah. Awesome. Thanks for this tip and the other info.

The $300 fare books into O class each way leaving you 120 or so EQP's short.

If you can dig up an ~$500 fare I would assume S class or similar one way which would do the trick.

I thought "O" qantas gives 0.5 EQP. SIN-PER-SIN is 4.8k total miles according to gcmap resulting in 2.4k EQP which is enough. Am I doing that right?

I'd love to do a better value run but I just don't have the time to do it right now.

 

[Oxy]

I thought "O" qantas gives 0.5 EQP. SIN-PER-SIN is 4.8k total miles according to gcmap resulting in 2.4k EQP which is enough. Am I doing that right?

I'd love to do a better value run but I just don't have the time to do it right now.

Make sure you use the second table "Effective for flights flown on/after August 1, 2013" which has the updated earn rates. Unfortunately for O class that is now 0.25 PPM then 0.5 EQP per mile earned making it 0.125 EQP per mile.
So your round trip PER-SIN-PER would get you 4842 x 0.125=605 EQP :shock:

 

[knasty]

You could combine this into a multi-city with BA in W, doing the PER-SYD now, and saving SYD-SIN-SYD-PER for later. The transcon books into B class

This is good advice. Once you have Platinum the flights to/from Sin will earn at Platinum rates. Take advantage of the current special - BA is a great earner for AA.

 

[_Clifton_]

Make sure you use the second table "Effective for flights flown on/after August 1, 2013" which has the updated earn rates. Unfortunately for O class that is now 0.25 PPM then 0.5 EQP per mile earned making it 0.125 EQP per mile.
So your round trip PER-SIN-PER would get you 4842 x 0.125=605 EQP :shock:

Eww... wow, okay I didn't realize it was for mile earned instead of mile flown. That makes this much less attractive. I guess it's not the same as flying on AA flights where I got 0.5 EPQ per mile despite being in S class.