Mardi
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OK, yes, this is another "wow I just made platinum for the first time" threads but I am amazed at how happy I feel about it!
I joined QFF in 1997 and was bronze until a couple of years ago, when to my surprise I became silver without having realised it would happen. I managed to get to gold in October last year and at the time I thought that was pretty amazing and never would have thought I'd get there.
On 20 June husband and I flew to Sydney to visit his mum (she's just had open heart surgery) and on the way back he asked how many SC I needed for platinum. I said I thought it was 210 but my year ended on 30 June so I didn't think it would be feasible. Over the next couple of days I remembered I'd received a double status credit offer - I remembered because I got double SC for the trip to SYD on 20 June. So there was another 20 SC off the total needed, bringing it to 190, half of which is 95.
So after looking at various options I booked one JASA and one YASA. The first was in J CBR - SYD return on 24 June. I realised that there was enough time (just!) to fly SYD - CBR return in between the two flights, in Y. So, as I have mentioned here already, I spent 24 June flying CBR - SYD - CBR - SYD - CBR and managed not to miss a single flight
So I eagerly awaited the change of my status to Platinum. One of my J flights appeared in my account. Then one of the Y flights. Then the DSCs for each of them. But what about the rest? My year ended 90 SC short of platinum
I rang QF yesterday and a nice man helpfully looked into it and did something to my account and finally, today, I checked my account to see that lovely word "Platinum".
Yes this is yet another "wow I just made platinum for the first time" thread but since you guys are the only ones who understand, I had to do it!
Do I need to be platinum - not really! Husband is platinum and 95% of the time I would travel with him. Hopefully being double WP will push us up the upgrade to F list for our trip to the USA later in the year. Extra FF points. I'm not sure how else it might benefit me, but if feels good!
I joined QFF in 1997 and was bronze until a couple of years ago, when to my surprise I became silver without having realised it would happen. I managed to get to gold in October last year and at the time I thought that was pretty amazing and never would have thought I'd get there.
On 20 June husband and I flew to Sydney to visit his mum (she's just had open heart surgery) and on the way back he asked how many SC I needed for platinum. I said I thought it was 210 but my year ended on 30 June so I didn't think it would be feasible. Over the next couple of days I remembered I'd received a double status credit offer - I remembered because I got double SC for the trip to SYD on 20 June. So there was another 20 SC off the total needed, bringing it to 190, half of which is 95.
So after looking at various options I booked one JASA and one YASA. The first was in J CBR - SYD return on 24 June. I realised that there was enough time (just!) to fly SYD - CBR return in between the two flights, in Y. So, as I have mentioned here already, I spent 24 June flying CBR - SYD - CBR - SYD - CBR and managed not to miss a single flight
So I eagerly awaited the change of my status to Platinum. One of my J flights appeared in my account. Then one of the Y flights. Then the DSCs for each of them. But what about the rest? My year ended 90 SC short of platinum
I rang QF yesterday and a nice man helpfully looked into it and did something to my account and finally, today, I checked my account to see that lovely word "Platinum".
Yes this is yet another "wow I just made platinum for the first time" thread but since you guys are the only ones who understand, I had to do it!
Do I need to be platinum - not really! Husband is platinum and 95% of the time I would travel with him. Hopefully being double WP will push us up the upgrade to F list for our trip to the USA later in the year. Extra FF points. I'm not sure how else it might benefit me, but if feels good!
