I hold both cards and was just assessing distribution of spend (particularly tax bills).
Putting aside the recent double points promotion with the Altitude card, it strikes me that the earn rate is far superior on the Earth card (see the two examples below). Clearly availability is also a relevant issue.
This is based on Earth transferring at 1:1 and Altitude transferring to CX and SQ at an effective tfr rate of 0.75 (clearly the promotion rate of 1.5 was superior, but after the promotion ends, seems to make more sense to revert to QF? As a P1, availability not an issue).
Have I worked this out correctly?
cheers
MEL – HKG in business (return)
Qantas: 120,000 points = $80,000 of spend on Earth Amex Card
Cathay: 80,000 points = $106,000 spend on Altitude Amex Card
MEL – JFK in business (return)
Qantas: 256,000 points = $170,600 of spend on Earth Amex Card
Cathay: 175,000 points = $233,000 spend on Altitude Amex Card
Putting aside the recent double points promotion with the Altitude card, it strikes me that the earn rate is far superior on the Earth card (see the two examples below). Clearly availability is also a relevant issue.
This is based on Earth transferring at 1:1 and Altitude transferring to CX and SQ at an effective tfr rate of 0.75 (clearly the promotion rate of 1.5 was superior, but after the promotion ends, seems to make more sense to revert to QF? As a P1, availability not an issue).
Have I worked this out correctly?
cheers
MEL – HKG in business (return)
Qantas: 120,000 points = $80,000 of spend on Earth Amex Card
Cathay: 80,000 points = $106,000 spend on Altitude Amex Card
MEL – JFK in business (return)
Qantas: 256,000 points = $170,600 of spend on Earth Amex Card
Cathay: 175,000 points = $233,000 spend on Altitude Amex Card