Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Programs: SQ, QF, MH, VA, AA, BA, AMEX, Citibank
Posts: 289
Luckily while point buying promos have been very thin, sign on bonii have by Australian standards (normally not as many players, or as generous) been quite frequent of late.
I just grabbed 40K of QFF points on a NAB Amex at $0 first year fee, and will have the wife do likewise soon. So that will be an easy 80K at no cost to add to the war-chest.
Sadly the MH option of using Amex MR points just got virtually closed off as they havejust basically doubled the cost of many redemptions from Australia based departures with their newly revised points tables for MH metal.
Still I grabbed two J returns to Kathmanadu, Nepal from Melbourne for this December for a spot of trekking to burn the points I had stored there for 2 J tickets to go to Europe next year after transferring points from Amex MR over Xmas to gain the 15% points bonus then on offer.
This will follow our African sojourn over June/July.