Reached Partner Gold, first time ever

[JohnK]

I am very excited at this achievement.

A lot of the travel was necessary and there was some fun along the way going the long way around to my favourite destination. What made it even harder was that in the same time frame I also credited over 400 SCs to Virgin to maintain Gold for another year.

And it was fitting that the flight that got me to 2400 SCs was the second leg of SIN-BNE-SYD itinerary a few days ago.

I received an email from Qantas a few hours ago and the choice for me is very simple and will get me to within 50,000 QFF points of my goal of 1,000,000 QFF points before the end of the year.

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[TD="width: 580"]By reaching 2,400 Status credits this membership year, you can now choose your reward from the following options*:
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[TD="width: 570"] Complimentary Gold membership for a family member or friendˆ, or
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[TD="width: 570"] Three complimentary invitations for Qantas Valet Parking or Qantas Chauffeured Transfers˜, or
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[TD="width: 570"] A bonus 50,000 Qantas Frequent Flyer points[SUP]†[/SUP]
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Need to hurry up and retire so I can start using some of these points on my 2 favourite pastimes....

 

[mitch24]

Congratulations!

 

[danny09]

Congrats JohnK, very nice to hear

 

[CaviAck]

Congrats JohnK!

 

[Travelqueen]

Congratulations John

 

[Inver]

A big congratulations JohnK​!

 

[Red Roo]

Congrats on reaching this milestone! Now for the hard part, choosing a family member or friend...

 

[serfty]

Congrats on reaching this milestone! Now for the hard part, choosing a family member or friend...

I believe JohnK has indicated they will take the 50K QFF points in their OP.

Well done John.

While I have surpassed 2400 SC's a number of times, it was back when PG was the only option at 2.1K SC's.

I'll be on 2.5K this time next month.

 

[Red Roo]

I believe JohnK will take the 50K QFF points ...

Sorry...bad joke.

 

[nlagalle]

Well done JohnK.. Certainly a great achievement considering the domestic hops you do!

 

[nlagalle]

You don't have a relative who would swap 50k of points for Gold? win-win situation!

 

[dfcatch]

Sorry...bad joke.

That's ok Red Roo - I'm sure there's lots of chances around here to win over some potential "Family or Friends"

 

[Red Roo]

That's ok Red Roo - I'm sure there's lots of chances around here to win over some potential "Family or Friends"

In the case of AFF, some friends are as good as family.

 

[JohnK]

Thanks everyone.

You don't have a relative who would swap 50k of points for Gold? win-win situation!

Only relatives in Australia are parents and brother and they hardly fly so Gold status would be wasted. Plus if i did gift status to tbem i wouldnt expect anything from them.

The 50,000 QFF points will come in handy.

 

[Nizar]

JohnK - congrats, that is quite an achievement ?
I'm curious to know - how do you plan to spend the 1million QFF points once you get there ? :mrgreen:

 

[serfty]

...

Only relatives in Australia are parents and brother and they hardly fly so Gold status would be wasted. Plus if i did gift status to tbem i wouldnt expect anything from them.. .

Doesn't need to be a rello ... it can be a Friend ...

 

[nlagalle]

Thanks everyone.



Only relatives in Australia are parents and brother and they hardly fly so Gold status would be wasted. Plus if i did gift status to tbem i wouldnt expect anything from them.

The 50,000 QFF points will come in handy.

I was being sublime.. You could swap gold to someone for 50k...

 

[legroom]

Late to the party but congrats JohnK.

I could only imagine how much flying that was !

 

[drewbles]

Well done JohnK.. Certainly a great achievement considering the domestic hops you do!

With the number of delays and irrops JohnK has, it's amazing he made it to 2400

 

[JohnK]

I'm curious to know - how do you plan to spend the 1million QFF points once you get there ? :mrgreen:

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