Originally Posted by
intl_flyer153
Award travel won't get you RDM/EQM miles, so I don't usually use award tickets for myself and just use them for family traveling with me. If you think about it, if you pay for the Australia ticket, you will be getting 17K miles + 100% bonus which is 34,000 RDM miles. That's close to halfway to another saver award ticket to Australia and since you travel for business frequently, you won't have to worry about expiring miles and can use those miles for the next family trip.
I'm single, not sure if the GF has earned that many miles, we'll see how she's doing in a couple months
But then, you would have to reach 1P before your trip to get the 100% bonus. You can also hope for another DEQM, do a cheap MR, and may not need the Australia trip to make 1P.
How about this for another option. I read in the status match thread that UA doesn't match but instead does challenges. From what i've read on FT about UA's challenge they give you immediate status for the flight that qualifies. If I buy a RT business class ticket (C) to Australia that should be enough to push me over the limit for a challenge and they'd give me the 1P 100% bonus?
Then the only question is if I would want to buy C ticket on UA to SYD when I could pay same money and fly biz on QF A380.
