Originally Posted by
Oneworldplus2
I did PER-SYD vv last year, maybe 7-9 times, on Red eDeals, and l was still only Silver. Cost ~$4000 and each return trip, say 10hours. The earning of SC's in Discount whY is TERRIBLE. Flying in J you'd hit SG comfortably and maybe even WP doing PER-ADL-SYD routing.
Aaah, I think you will find that QF stack up pretty well in this regard compared to a lot of programs. A lot of airlines actually exclude earning on the most heavily discounted fares, or heavily discount the earning (look at NZ, SQ, TG, CX), at least you still get full points earned, and some contribution to status (FWIW if you did get a 100% miles earn on all fares, you would need 6 1/2 returns to SYD-PER to get to silver if it was based in the standard for such programs of 25,000 miles = silver)