Originally Posted by
LyingFlat
Nearly all of mine come from flying. I've done 4 AKL-LON-AKL trips on NZ this year alone. 3 of these trips were booked in C class in both directions. C class earns 497APD and 476SP each way...
By my quoting, I got $14,717 rt for C class on that route. So you're spending $45k per year for three rt flights? No wonder they are pumping out the airpoints lol. I hope an employer is paying for this.
Originally Posted by
Xiaotung
50 (or 25 in Australia) stays a year at SPG hotels would land me 1000 APD.
Hilton has APD promos most of the time which often awards double/triple/50 bonus APD for weekend stays.
I had no idea about this. Did a quick Google and seems I missed out on quite a few APD by not doing this and I'm just outside the 6 month back claim period.
Originally Posted by
sbiddle
I know a number of people who put $100k + per year on their credit cards. That's pretty easy when you're paying GST + PAYE with it.
Obviously credit card earn is going to crash big time within the next 12 months or so when the expected interchange fee drop occurs.
See, I thought business spend was prohibited from earning APD. Clearly it's not because it would be fairly easy to exclude IRD as earning points, but don't you have to pay a surcharge which would make it not worth it?
FWIW, I made a submission to MBIE on that matter as well. The sooner the payment processing fees come down the better. Needs more regulation IMO.
http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-service...sions-received