The Qantas Status Run Master Thread

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I'm pretty new here and interested to hear experienced thoughts...

With 4 months left I'm 225 SCs from Gold and wondering if it's worth trying to get there or do I just be content with yet another year of Silver. (A little more content with that assuming I now won't lose all those surplus points when my Qantas year ticks over.... ).

I'm based in Darwin so have fewer flight options but I'm wondering if something like a SGP trip via another domestic capital would be one reasonably cost effective strategy.

Also curious if people think there might be another double status credit offer soon or definitely no?

I travel to DRW from ADL 6-8 times a year to see my parents so my views are from that. Outside of sales and DSC the best I can find is usually $10 per SC.

Whilst I haven’t looked at to or from SIN the cheapest I can think of for 225 SC would probably be something like:
DRW-ASP-ADL. If you booked a few months in advance you can usually get it for $1,165 for 120 SC. So not amazing, but about as good as it gets from Darwin.
DRW-CNS-BNE is usually around $1,172 so basically the same if you’d rather end up in Brissy.

Of course if a double SC promotion comes you’d only need to do that one way and then Jetstar the other direction to save some money.

I'm hoping I'll have 20-60 SCs in November from work travel but that's uncertain.

If you were able to get, atleast, 25 SC from work then potentially you could do something like DRW-ADL-ASP-DRW. That would get you 200 of the SC and work could cover the rest and that would be about $2k. If you need to do it over the weekend your likely have to spend the night in Adelaide but if you have a weekday free you could get it done in one day. For the same price.


Weekend overnight

Same day return

I think would be difficult to earn the number of SC needed for less than the cost of a QC membership. If you only fly Qantas (especially domestic) I think that would be the more sensible option.

I agree with the other poster though that it’s gonna be pretty difficult to get those SC for less the then a few years of QC membership cost.