Status Credits

[markir]

Hi all out there,
I need a bit of help for a status run with QF. have to made a booking between 24octand 30oct to get 50% extra travel between 24oct to 21 feb2017. Have 95 SC gold exp. 30sep 2017.
Or not I'm not so sure. Have to fly flex and it have to be QF flight number of course. My recent flight was with EK AMS-Dubai and no sc only 800p. We learn one day.
Many thanks, markir

 

[Steady]

Hi markir, if you give a bit more info such as where you will be starting from (HBT, LST, DPO or BWT) it will help people to make some suggestions.

Domestically you will earn SC's on discount economy, flexible economy and business class fares on QF flight numbers.

 

[markir]

Hi markir, if you give a bit more info such as where you will be starting from (HBT, LST, DPO or BWT) it will help people to make some suggestions.

Domestically you will earn SC's on discount economy, flexible economy and business class fares on QF flight numbers.

Hi Steady sorry about this. But will start from LST. But try to get most SC for my money. To take advantage of the 50%. Even go further US maybe?
Thanks Steady

 

[mviy]

You should give an indication of flight budget and how many SCs you are after.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

LST - MEL - AKL - SYD - MEL - LST.
If you do this in whY you will earn maybe about 70 QF SC. Cheap as about Aud$1000.
You can also buy the seat next to you on your flights, have to phone up QF telephone sales, you will earn the SC for yourself and also for the seat you have bought next to you.
This can raise the SC earn, but of course, will be more expensive.
You can do LST - MEL about mid afternoon, and get the MEL - AKL late night departure, arrival into AKL about 5am.
Stay there a day and a bit and then do a turn around.
Australian passport, its easy, using Smartgate, if asked why such short trip, you can say you are doing a MR or that you have to work the next day. I clean shops, so have an excuse, more than one employer so long weekends are the only time I can get away.
Aussie long weekends are good to do trans Tasman.
I have done many Easter trips and also long weekend trips, some Christmas long weekends too.
LST - MEL - SIN - SYD - MEL - LST in whY can earn more.
Try to save some $ for a subclass of J somewhere, they will earn you more QF SC.
Edit: this is what I did my first year of SC chasing, AKL/WLG have also been destos.
ADL - SYD (subclass of J) - 40 SC
SYD - CHC (subclass of J) - 80 SC
If you want to do it, you can get about 120 easily, transTasman subclass of J for 90 SC (10 SC on the Dash8 + 80 SC on the 737 across to NZ, coming back, and it can 180 SC.

 

[markir]

LST - MEL - AKL - SYD - MEL - LST.
If you do this in whY you will earn maybe about 70 QF SC. Cheap as about Aud$1000.
You can also buy the seat next to you on your flights, have to phone up QF telephone sales, you will earn the SC for yourself and also for the seat you have bought next to you.
This can raise the SC earn, but of course, will be more expensive.
You can do LST - MEL about mid afternoon, and get the MEL - AKL late night departure, arrival into AKL about 5am.
Stay there a day and a bit and then do a turn around.
Australian passport, its easy, using Smartgate, if asked why such short trip, you can say you are doing a MR or that you have to work the next day. I clean shops, so have an excuse, more than one employer so long weekends are the only time I can get away.
Aussie long weekends are good to do trans Tasman.
I have done many Easter trips and also long weekend trips, some Christmas long weekends too.
LST - MEL - SIN - SYD - MEL - LST in whY can earn more.
Try to save some $ for a subclass of J somewhere, they will earn you more QF SC.
Edit: this is what I did my first year of SC chasing, AKL/WLG have also been destos.
ADL - SYD (subclass of J) - 40 SC
SYD - CHC (subclass of J) - 80 SC
If you want to do it, you can get about 120 easily, transTasman subclass of J for 90 SC (10 SC on the Dash8 + 80 SC on the 737 across to NZ, coming back, and it can 180 SC.

Thanks AustraliaPoochie, This is great and I will look into this. Reason is I lost 1050 SC just 350 short to get plat, my ann. is 30SEP16 I don't understand this. So to retain gold I have to get 600SC I got 95SC one reason to take advantage of the 50% extra.
I better ask what is a MR? Would they really ask questions? I will look LST-MEL-SIN-SYD-MEL-LST see how much it is. What is (subclass of J) ? I only know Bus and flex Bus.
Sorry about all the questions but I ask them any way and I found it not easy to write in the forums. A newbee one of those. Thanks again you were a great help. markir

 

[Quickstatus]

MR = mileage run aka status run.

But reality check: why you need to get to gold of for that matter any level of status.
If you are not able to get to the US and do intra US status run which can cost $1-5 per SC, intraoz/NZ SC will cost at best about $10 per SC. 1.5x SC offer makes this $7.5 per SC.

So of you need say 500 SC = $3750 (at best)

After you get your status will you be doing much flying where the new found status will give you benefits in excess of $3750?

But not telling you how to spend your $$$ - just an alternative POV.

There are flights which have 2 sectors to get from A-B via C which is the same price as a 1 sector A-B and you get the SC for A-C, C-B.

For example MEL-CHC can sometimes be same price as MEL-SYD-CHC but worth more SC

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

I think its that you did not fly enough, you have to fly 1400 QF SC in that one year, to get WP status.
If you are short, even 350, in your first or second year, QF don't care.
If on the other hand, you have shown QF you "care", ie its your 3rd year of WP, and you are short, on here, its said that QF will give you WP on the 3rd anniversary.
So you losing 1050, means you didn't fly enough.
If on the other hand, you had flown 1400, or over, you would have attained WP.
Now that your new year has started, aim for SG, which is attainable for a working person.
I got it, but quite pricey.
WhY (discY on QF) Au to the US also earns very little.
Even if you get an ETSA for entry the US, you still face questionings by US C&BP. Answer the questions rightly, your entry. According to what I have seen on Youtube, if you stammer, or umm and ahh with C&BP, they can make your entry to the US hard.
Going to NZ as I mentioned above, with an Au passport, is chicken feed/feet!
TransTasman flights if you can afford in J, or flexY, plus some whY/flexY Au domestic trips, will get you SG quite easily.
As you have gotten to 1050 SC, I guess you have SG this year to Sep 17, that has some benefits, more so than as a PS/NB.
Edit:
I did this, as a test, and it only earns 185 QF SC, out of Au and coming back, quite a lot of money: all in whY
LST - MEL - NAD - LAX - PPT - SCL - AKL - SYD - LST
Launceston, Melbourne, Nadi Fiji, Los Angeles, Papeete, Santiago, Auckland, Sydney, Launceston.
If you want to try it!

 

[RichardMEL]

So you losing 1050, means you didn't fly enough.

The 1050 were not "lost" - they still count to lifetime status - it is just that the 1400 was not reached in the membership year, so when the membership year reset, the year to date status credits reset to 0, as they do for all members.

the OP still attained/retained Gold with those 1050 anyway.

If on the other hand, you had flown 1400, or over, you would have attained WP.
Now that your new year has started, aim for SG, which is attainable for a working person.

That's a fair assumption to make IMHO. Everyone's circumstances are different.

I did this, as a test, and it only earns 185 QF SC, out of Au and coming back, quite a lot of money: all in whY
LST - MEL - NAD - LAX - PPT - SCL - AKL - SYD - LST
Launceston, Melbourne, Nadi Fiji, Los Angeles, Papeete, Santiago, Auckland, Sydney, Launceston.
If you want to try it!

I'm sorry you've totally lost me with this one - it makes no sense whatsoever. Why on earth did you even come to pick such a ridiculous routing?

Plus Nadi is NAN, not NAD so you're confusing things with an incorrect airport code, but why go from PPT-SCL? or did you perhaps mean NAN-PPT-LAX-SFL-AKL ? that would make somewhat more sense, but is a convoluted routing and as you said has a huge price tag. None of thise helps the OP with his quest to max SC's for the lowest price either and additionally QF flies almost zero of those sectors you've mentioned, so the SC offer would be irrelevant! eg: SCL-AKL-SYD would have to be a QF codeshare on LA, SYD-NAN would be a code on FJ, NAN-PPT-LAX I have no idea who even would fly this.. maybe FJ/TN and LAX-SCL would be on LA.

I'm sorry Pooch I understand you are well meaning but this suggestion actually meets zero of the criteria of both the mentioned bonus SC promo (which I note has now expired anyway because it was a short booking window) or a cost effective SC earner.

Markir I hope you managed to find something to book to take advantage of the 50% SC promo to get something out of it. I do tend to agree with some others that mauybe your travel patterns may not make the effort worth it fully but only you can decide on your budget, future travel plans and how you may make use of any status accrued.

best wishes

 

[markir]

The 1050 were not "lost" - they still count to lifetime status - it is just that the 1400 was not reached in the membership year, so when the membership year reset, the year to date status credits reset to 0, as they do for all members.

the OP still attained/retained Gold with those 1050 anyway.


That's a fair assumption to make IMHO. Everyone's circumstances are different.




I'm sorry you've totally lost me with this one - it makes no sense whatsoever. Why on earth did you even come to pick such a ridiculous routing?

Plus Nadi is NAN, not NAD so you're confusing things with an incorrect airport code, but why go from PPT-SCL? or did you perhaps mean NAN-PPT-LAX-SFL-AKL ? that would make somewhat more sense, but is a convoluted routing and as you said has a huge price tag. None of thise helps the OP with his quest to max SC's for the lowest price either and additionally QF flies almost zero of those sectors you've mentioned, so the SC offer would be irrelevant! eg: SCL-AKL-SYD would have to be a QF codeshare on LA, SYD-NAN would be a code on FJ, NAN-PPT-LAX I have no idea who even would fly this.. maybe FJ/TN and LAX-SCL would be on LA.

I'm sorry Pooch I understand you are well meaning but this suggestion actually meets zero of the criteria of both the mentioned bonus SC promo (which I note has now expired anyway because it was a short booking window) or a cost effective SC earner.

Markir I hope you managed to find something to book to take advantage of the 50% SC promo to get something out of it. I do tend to agree with some others that mauybe your travel patterns may not make the effort worth it fully but only you can decide on your budget, future travel plans and how you may make use of any status accrued.

best wishes

Dear all,
This the third time trying to reply, losing the posts I write. Freezing of the webpage unresponsive etc. I must be doing something wrong, but I try again.
Thanks to all who replied.
Clarify my situation: I let go the 50% extra to get SC. This year I flew twice to AMS LST-MEL-SYD-SIN rt with QF SIN-AMS rt with KLM mistake. 2nd trip LST-MEL-PER-DBX-AMS no SC on leg DBX-PER was a EK flight number. Another mistake.
I do my own bookings with the consequences of making mistakes. Flew LST-MEL and LST-BNE a few times some in flex or disc. all with QF or Jetstar. On the basis of this I would have WP. Still there is that Gold and I hope it will be shining.
Planning next year a trip to AMS e.g. LST-MEL-DBX-AMS rt 300SC in flex $3141 Sale: 150SC $1440 twice is $2880 also 300SC but a cost saving of $260! Weird I found. I hope I did the sums right. The lesson or rather the choice is this I think:
1/ Go for the cheapest you can with any airline. Forget about points SC,s and the like or
2/Stick with in my case with QF and have a bit more comfort and on some occasion an upgrade in business. Although QF is more expensive it give excellent service I found. (I found KLM disappointing)
If any of your guys have a better suggestions I'm listening travel via US?
And Pooch what are you trying to do to me after your suggesting flights, it would kill me. But thanks anyway.
To all happy flying because the sun is shining. markir

 

[Quickstatus]

Markir:

Best fare of Day (BFOD) is a very good idea.

Sounds like you dont fly enough to really get to WP without assistance of SC offers or MR (mileage run/status run). If it takes the whole year to scrape into WP you are just like a hamster in a wheel.

Upgrade to business as a WP? - you would certainly be infront of SG in the Upgrade lottery. However there are many other WP and P1 who will be ahead of you. It is very rare for a WP to get a complimentary upgrade travelling QF. Travelling EK (as a QF codeshare) the comp upgrades were easler to come by but that airline is now putting QF WP behind passengers who paid more than you for the ticket.

After scraping into WP will you have enough points or time for international J class award travel?

Tier status are really only worth it for passengers who fly Y a lot as they can get at seats further up front of plane, quicker phone service, and lounge access for the several times they fly a week. Or for those passengers who can accumulate more than 500,000 points a year via Credit cards and need better access to International award seats

So SG (gold) could be more achievable target for you, but I suggest have a think about BFOD.

 

[RichardMEL]

I tend to agree with Quickstatus. For a few trips a year international and a few more domestic, it's probably not worth chasing the higher status because the benefit would outweigh the cost and the benefit in following years may not be fully realised if flying patterns/circumstances change (unless one flies more )

You have learned from the mistakes you made with booking EK flight numbers and flying on non partners (eg: KLM) but we all live and learn when new to the game (and then it gets fun when things change, or get "simpler and fairer" ). You'll know better next time if you decide to stick with the one horse (QFF).

At the end of the day there's no "right" answer as everyone's circumstances are different.

As an aside, Dubai is DXB, not DBX

 

[markir]

Re: Status Credits
To Quickstatus and RichardMel, I do confer chasing the impossible WP is going be though. Getting 100000's points through credit card transactions plus a lot flying as Quickstatus said is out of the question.
I'm not in that category. So I stick what I'have got and enjoy the flying were ever I can. Thanks for the advise.

 

[Quickstatus]

Markir,

just start accumulating your poimts for the airline tou want to travel in.
not every FF program require high status to get award seats - Krisflyer for example

 

[puppysparkes]

Re: Status Credits
To Quickstatus and RichardMel, I do confer chasing the impossible WP is going be though. Getting 100000's points through credit card transactions plus a lot flying as Quickstatus said is out of the question.
I'm not in that category. So I stick what I'have got and enjoy the flying were ever I can. Thanks for the advise.

Stick with SG. Play the long game and aim for lifetime status. If/whenever you receive as 50% or DSC promo go nuts with your bookings. This has strategy worked for me. I'm half way to LTS at half the cost since joining AFF.

 

[RichardMEL]

Most people consider Gold the sweet spot at QFF anyway for the perks at that level. Sure Plat and higher are nice for F lounge access, better upgrade chances and such, but for mostly domestic travel and things like that Gold is really pretty good