Hello everyone,

My current GO membership expires on August 23rd, and I was really surprised to log onto CX's website and realised that I have been renewed GO on August 1st! I called MPC immediately and someone informed me that the system will automatically renew because I was substantially short of the 120k miles goal and not to "waste" my miles. At that point my miles stood at 87910 miles, and now I have 7479.

After explaining to him that I am just about to travel in August, MPC Customer Service officer then asked me if I can complete the Diamond requirement by September 30th, and said he would grant me an extension to qualify. However, I will have to call Macro Polo after I complete the journeys and they will do it manually. While this sounds like excellent news, I am wondering if anyone else have similar experiences, and if I have to do anything to prove that this conversation actually took place?

Now, although on paper, I have almost 2 months to complete this DM qualification, in effect, I only have less than a month because my semester starts soon. Originally, I had the following planned (which would comfortably lead me to DM):

TPE to JNB (round trip): 17703
TPE to NRT (round trip): 3390
TPE to PEK (round trip): 4344
TPE to ORD (1 way): 10325

However, I think it is unrealistic to go to South Africa with such little preparation, so I would need to go somewhere else. Ideally, I would like to start from TPE, and want to go somewhere with minimal stress and hopefully cheaper as well. Maybe somewhere with same day turnaround? How tiring would it be?

I am not particularly keen on US options because as a F-1 Visa holder, I don't really want to deal with immigration twice. And if I go back to the EU countries, would I get into troubles with VATs?

Any suggestions will be appreciated!