HSBC Star Alliance credit card in Australia

I love to travel said:
Trying to time by star gold for Europe next summer so hopefully they will extend offer.
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I am looking at something similar, but from reading this thread I believe if you go through AC/Aeroplan (and keep the card open and pay annual fee again next year) you get 50K/*G status to the end of the calendar year in which your status expires - so should be end of 2025?
 
Received my CC today. So far, my travel plans for the next year are:
Mel - Europe on SQ J.
Europe - Mel on Qatar and QF.
Intra-Europe - a couple flights economy on Swiss and Austrian.

May do a flight to Singapore/SE Asia and within Australia on Virgin in the next 12 months.

Would you put status with AC, KF or other?

Many thanks.
 
LA10 said:
Received my CC today. So far, my travel plans for the next year are:
Mel - Europe on SQ J.
Europe - Mel on Qatar and QF.
Intra-Europe - a couple flights economy on Swiss and Austrian.

May do a flight to Singapore/SE Asia and within Australia on Virgin in the next 12 months.

Would you put status with AC, KF or other?

Many thanks.
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Putting your status with Aeroplan (AC) will give you the 50k points. That’s worth $1000 in terms of buying points, and much more in terms of a redemption.

Crediting your points from flying is another matter… you can choose the program you want at the time. If you are close to an award on SQ because you already have a stash of points in krisflyer, then credit there, and redeem.

Otherwise Aeroplan is a good place.
 
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MEL_Traveller said:
Putting your status with Aeroplan (AC) will give you the 50k points. That’s worth $1000 in terms of buying points, and much more in terms of a redemption.

Crediting your points from flying is another matter… you can choose the program you want at the time. If you are close to an award on SQ because you already have a stash of points in krisflyer, then credit there, and redeem.

Otherwise Aeroplan is a good place.
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Thanks for clarifying, I was under the impression the 50k was allocated to AC regardless of my choice. My bad, thank you!
 
I'm still awaitng for the bonus 50K points to be posted after selecting Aeroplan, but was wondering if I wanted to ask, should I be asking HSBC or Star Alliance?

It's been over 6 weeks now that I've hit the spend threshold, so just wanted to see who to chase/follow up with
 
I've got the HSBC Star Gold credit card and have aligned with Air Canada aeroplan. I signed up for the card in March 2024. I met the minimum spend to reach 50K status in April which will last the rest of this year and until the end of 2025.

I can't find a direct answer to this online but my question is regarding requalifying for status with the $60,000 spend. Through a combination of wedding, honeymoon and other expenses I think I will have met this spend soon also (but can pay with other means to not reach the $60,000 also).

If I meet this spend to requalify for Star Alliance Gold/Aeroplan 50K status will there be any benefit if I am already going to have 50K status until the end of next year?

Is there benefit if I hold of and wait for the $60,000 spend to be met at the start of next year.
This would be just before my 12 months of HSBC card ownership and into the 2nd calendar year of aeroplan 50K
Would it then re-trigger and give me status 2025 plus the following year (2026)?

Thanks :)
 
Mattg said:
It’s still there are far as I can see? Showing an offer expiry date of 3 June 2024.
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But there doesn't seem to be any mention of it on the HSBC page once you click through from AC. Not sure if there was before?

Given they (HSBC) are the ones actually providing the financial product, I am a bit concerned, as was planning on applying in the next week or so.
 
donkeykong said:
I'm still awaitng for the bonus 50K points to be posted after selecting Aeroplan, but was wondering if I wanted to ask, should I be asking HSBC or Star Alliance?

It's been over 6 weeks now that I've hit the spend threshold, so just wanted to see who to chase/follow up with
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I didn’t realise it was posted to my Aeroplane account - posted on 1st May
I kept checking my star alliance account - my bad!
 
oz_mark said:
I don't think it was ever on the HSBC site
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Would be great if someone could confirm this.
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djkelly69 said:
But there doesn't seem to be any mention of it on the HSBC page once you click through from AC. Not sure if there was before?

Given they (HSBC) are the ones actually providing the financial product, I am a bit concerned, as was planning on applying in the next week or so.
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This is what I am worried about too.
 

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