Hi Bigintangibles

Thanks -- it seems quite a few people here and elsewhere are recommending Aegean as a generally easy way to quickly get *G.

In my case, however, where I already have the SQ account and this year am currently short 20k to renew Gold by April, the choice to do the next 20K on A3 for Gold is not as clear.

There may be some advantage to A3 since it lasts 3 years, but this is offset by accumulating miles in an account which I can less easily or efficiently use for some short regional flights in Asia.

Regardless of whether the next 20k on StarAlliance flights would renew SQ Gold or achieve A3 Gold, at this point I am still not sure about my original query. Namely, is it better to push these next 20K to secure *G before turning to secure CX Gold and possibly end up 20k shy of Diamond .... or leave SQ at Silver and focus all of the next 120k to reach CX Diamond.

In other words, is it better to have the combination of SQ Gold and CX Gold ... or the combination of SQ Silver and CX Diamond?

Thanks