yosithezet
Junior Member
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- Jan 22, 2011
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My name is yosithezet and I'm addicted to points and miles. I'm not looking for help to break my addiction.
Assuming my visa comes through, I'll be relocating to MEL within the next few months. I spend a week a quarter or so down under but living there will be new to me.
I've been gaining amazing value from FlyerTalk for the past 6 years. Since I'll be moving down under it makes sense that I should be able to gain even more value from a board with a local focus. In going through some of the posts I've already spotted some familiar usernames so I know I'm in good company.
Generally my travel is for business. I'm APAC presales director for a software company. My job description says to expect about 50% travel but last year I was on the road some 85%. That should come down a bit since the trips to Australia won't be necessary with me living there. I'll probably see an increase in short trips within ANZ.
On the hotel side I have been able to maintain Hyatt GP Diamond and SPG Plat for the past few years. I see SPG as my main program and should find some excuse to burn Hyatt points. I had over 200 hotel nights last year. Sadly some were in Mantra on Lt. Bourke where I couldn't earn anything of value.
I've got a US bank account so I churned lots of AAdvantage credit cards and am set with AA miles for a while.
As for airlines I've been flying LY from TLV into Asia and then using TG to get around Asia. I've earned TG Gold and LY Gold. However, I was able to take the TG Gold and get NW to give me Plat (slid over into DL Plat). The NW Plat gave me BD Gold. When BD pulled out of TLV I was able to get BA Gold comped. LY was a bit more difficult as they wanted to see flights. I put some OZ flights on BD and sent that off to LY. They eventually comped me Plat for 6 months with a challenge to get to about half of what is needed to qualify in 6 months to extend Plat for another year. I didn't make it but was able to get them to extend by showing them some good reasons to extend. Of course since I'd put some miles on BD it made sense to put some more on and re-qualify for Gold with hope that it will bring me M&M SEN with the merger. This was done while still re-qualifying for TG*G. I guess you could say that I get around a bit.
Other than that I love to cook and go to hip hop clubs (Anyone know of any in MEL where a 43 year-old won't feel out of place?) My waistline belies my love of fine food whether form a street cart or white tablecloth restaurant. I plan to work on the waistline once I'm settled in and I don't mean to build it out further. Also hoping to learn golf and some language skills. I hear yinz have a better life/work balance down under and I hope to take some advantage of it.
Anyway, looking forward to meeting lots of yinz in person over the coming years and hope to be able to add something to justify all that I'm sure I'll gain.
Oh, and... Go Steelers! (Gridiron)
Assuming my visa comes through, I'll be relocating to MEL within the next few months. I spend a week a quarter or so down under but living there will be new to me.
I've been gaining amazing value from FlyerTalk for the past 6 years. Since I'll be moving down under it makes sense that I should be able to gain even more value from a board with a local focus. In going through some of the posts I've already spotted some familiar usernames so I know I'm in good company.
Generally my travel is for business. I'm APAC presales director for a software company. My job description says to expect about 50% travel but last year I was on the road some 85%. That should come down a bit since the trips to Australia won't be necessary with me living there. I'll probably see an increase in short trips within ANZ.
On the hotel side I have been able to maintain Hyatt GP Diamond and SPG Plat for the past few years. I see SPG as my main program and should find some excuse to burn Hyatt points. I had over 200 hotel nights last year. Sadly some were in Mantra on Lt. Bourke where I couldn't earn anything of value.
I've got a US bank account so I churned lots of AAdvantage credit cards and am set with AA miles for a while.
As for airlines I've been flying LY from TLV into Asia and then using TG to get around Asia. I've earned TG Gold and LY Gold. However, I was able to take the TG Gold and get NW to give me Plat (slid over into DL Plat). The NW Plat gave me BD Gold. When BD pulled out of TLV I was able to get BA Gold comped. LY was a bit more difficult as they wanted to see flights. I put some OZ flights on BD and sent that off to LY. They eventually comped me Plat for 6 months with a challenge to get to about half of what is needed to qualify in 6 months to extend Plat for another year. I didn't make it but was able to get them to extend by showing them some good reasons to extend. Of course since I'd put some miles on BD it made sense to put some more on and re-qualify for Gold with hope that it will bring me M&M SEN with the merger. This was done while still re-qualifying for TG*G. I guess you could say that I get around a bit.
Other than that I love to cook and go to hip hop clubs (Anyone know of any in MEL where a 43 year-old won't feel out of place?) My waistline belies my love of fine food whether form a street cart or white tablecloth restaurant. I plan to work on the waistline once I'm settled in and I don't mean to build it out further. Also hoping to learn golf and some language skills. I hear yinz have a better life/work balance down under and I hope to take some advantage of it.
Anyway, looking forward to meeting lots of yinz in person over the coming years and hope to be able to add something to justify all that I'm sure I'll gain.
Oh, and... Go Steelers! (Gridiron)
