Help Need 85 SC to reach Silver by 31/10/2012 - Rec'd bonus offer

[DontGetMeStarted]

Can someone please assist advise the best way to earn the 85 required to Silver Status by 31/10/2012 - I received the recent bonus offer and my husband did'nt and he needs 85 too. Melbourne based but with nothing in the pipeline at the moment. Sitting on 800,000+ points (saving for a J class RTW Explorer in 2013) and husband has 300,000+.....Trouble is I don't know whether its worth the effort to get to silver, have only achieved it once before. Thanks in advance

 

[Simo]

IMHO I don't put any real value in Silver.

The benefits start when you get to gold.

If you had some travel planed then go for it otherwise don't bother IMHO

 

[Limewood]

If you can do status run via Brisbane or Sydney to Darwin using any seat award will get you stacks of status points. Aug next 72K points + $370 will get you 480 status points and 11K points back on double offer. Gold is the way to go.

 

[samh004]

I would agree Gold is the way to go, but if you’re going to be doing a J RTW then you’ll have lounge access and most of the important benefits that Gold provides anyway.

From BNE you could easily get to Platinum with 96k points and a little cash in two JASA’s to DRW, which would make the RTW more fun as you’d get to use the F lounges, but it’s a lot of work, a lot of flying