How many Points saved/redeemed in the Last Year or so

[Alanslegal]

Gosh everyone is talking about hundreds of thousands of points and I'm only in the tens of thousands

My current dilemma is I need to get fly SYD-SIN early May .... so it's either on QF which requires 30,000 points .... or take SQ which is 23,750 SQ saves me 6,250 points .... but I miss out on the F Lounge, F check in and priority boarding .... and maybe any (miniscule) chance of an op-up . Decisons decisions!

 

[samh004]

Last year I managed to earn myself about 50k, and spent about 25k, while this year I’ve managed another 20k with 35k planned to land in my account at some point.

 

[arraitch]

When JQ cancelled our MEL-SIN flight last month, we took a quick look at other options. We were sorely tempted by a FASA the following day for 90,000 points and ~$270. That would've been good for earning 9,373 points + 180 SCs. But, as the point of the exercise was to sample *class, we relented. Still not sure about that decision!

Note that there's another such opportunity tomorrow for anyone who has the time, inclination and points. :-|

 

[AnonymousCoward]

I think you'll find it's also a combination of award inventory showing up as a discounted rate in the ASA engine.

The discounted rates appeared from Day 1 when there were classic awards available on the same flight. I'm pretty sure that the same situation exists today. The only change has been the opportunity to earn SCs/points

 

[serfty]

The discounted rates appeared from Day 1 when there were classic awards available on the same flight. I'm pretty sure that the same situation exists today. The only change has been the opportunity to earn SCs/points

I guess the SC's, especially those available with JASA's now make them a lot more worthwhile for Status Chasers like myself.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Just fly 100+ times a year on Qualifying flights for several years.:shock:

Also, SWMBO has earned plenty of points for travel (after two ATW's) as a Partner Gold. In that time 200K have been Family transferred to my account.

Good point, family have another 250,000. I should consolidate before they do something silly with them, like buying Iphones etc etc

 

[JohnK]

In the last few years I have redeemed

3 x 140,000 Oneworld awards
1 x 72,000 Around Australia award
1 x 30,000 SYD-BKK positioning flight to start purchasing return airfares to Australia ex-BKK and ex-SIN
1 x 8,000 SYD-BNE award for Ozfest as airfare was expensive

I refuse to use my hard earned QFF points (no easy accumulation of CC points via a business) on upgrades to business class as economy is just fine and the whole idea is to stretch the points for as manytrips as possible.

I have close to 400,000 QFF points right now and have started planning another Oneworld award for May-June 2012 and then another in 2014 which may end up being business class for my 50th....

 

[Febs]

Have "bought" 140,000pt RTW fares every year for the last 3 years now. 2 of them in 2009, 1 in 2010 and I just spent 287,000pts on another two for our honeymoon (to be taken in 2012).

Side note: Pretty impressed I was able to get MLE-LGW on points, on the date we wanted. It's not exactly a common flight (3-4 days/week I think) and I honestly thought we'd have no hope of getting 2 x award seats on it!

I now have 123 QFF points to my name (but that was planned, because I plan on spending all my remaining AMEX points on SPG stays ).

Cheers,
- Febs.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Last 12 months.

4 J Melbourne to Manchester
1 J Mel to London
1 F Frankfurt to Mel
4 J Amsterdam to Mel
5 J Mel to coughet via Bangkok
5 J coughet to Mel via Sin
3 F Mel to Milan
3 J Milan to Mel

Do not have the exact point cost. But it must be about 2 million.

 

[whughes3]

According to the QF website, in the last 12 months I earned 138K points and burned 120K; currently have about 80K (with another 25K coming in the next few weeks) plus about 40K of transferable points in CC accounts. A slightly quieter-than-average year for me.

 

[medhead]

I was shocked to review my spreadsheet and realise that I've redeemed 423000 in the last 12 months. That would be for:
JASA BNE-CNS-ADL
JASA SIN-FRA
Some random (5+) classic awards between ADL, MEL, CBR, SYD
Y+ upgrade SIN-SYD
J upgrade SYD-ADL
J upgrade for family ADL-BNE

I still have about 70k points. The icons tell me I earned 238k points in the last 12 months.