I'm one of the lucky recipients of the double SC offer, and am wondering whether the knowledgable FFs in here think using it on a semi-SC run would likely be worth it for me.
My normal annual QF travel is enough to attain / retain Silver, but no more than that: ~9 domestic trips for work, ~2 trips to Hong Kong for work and 1 international trip for a holiday (may or may not be QF), all in Y (normally discount Y).
One of my Hong Kong trips is coming up in a month or so, and through this promo and some cheap ASA fares I can earn a lot of SCs in return for what seems to me to be a pretty reasonable number of points. A couple of options are:
1) MEL-ADL-PER-HKG-PER-ADL-MEL on a JASA - 180,000 points for 960 SCs. This would almost certainly guarantee me reaching Platinum before my expiry date.
2) MEL-SYD-HKG-PER-MEL on a JASA - 120,000 points for 720 SCs. This may be enough to get me to Platinum before my expiry date, but would require another domestic JASA or two (or some sort of other SC run).
3) MEL-HKG-MEL on a FASA - 180,000 points for 720 SCs. Same comments as #2... obviously a less efficient points spend, but tempting as I've never flown F
In all cases I'm only counting the minimum points cost for the ASA as my work will cover the cash component (as they were going to pay for Y anyway, and the cash component is less than this would have cost).
On to the point of all this: given that my normal travel isn't enough to retain Platinum (nor even Gold), I'm essentially looking at "buying" myself ~15 month of Platinum status and 12 months of Gold status for ~180,000 points.
What does everyone think - is this worth it, taking into account the relatively limited amount of QF flying I do?
I know it's somewhat subjective question, but as I've never enjoyed the benefits of Gold or Plat I figure other people's opinions will be better than mine
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