Hi all

A newbie to Qantas, after flying to Singapore last week on a Qantas business return from Christchurch and from various domestic jetstar flights, i am only 95 credits short of gold, but these need to be earned by 28th Feb on the website. i figure I might as well go for it and look at a business trip to Australia.

Some questions:
- Is the 28 February strict, will they allow some flexibility (i.e. flying in March) and do they look at a rolling 12 month period like air NZ?
- If I buy a one way business class flex ticket from CHC-MEL the website routes me via SYD. Looking at the calculator on the website, CHC-MEL in business flex is 90 credits, or do I add CHC-SYD (90 credits) + SYD-MEL (45 credits) giving me a total of 135. I will be booking one ticket.
- related to the first question, if i do get gold status, I have some business class flights to Europe late in the year on CX, will I start back from 0 on my gold requal or is there a rolling 12 months that applies?

Thanks!