Originally Posted by
flyingmonkie
3) I was Gold and retaining that with BA is actually not too difficult if you pop back to the old country a couple of times a year and if you split your flight at SIN (i.e. the BA16 followed by the BA12 / BA11 followed by BA15) then you can do your four segments in one return trip.
You can also fly on BA flight numbers on something like MEL-SYD-SIN or BNE-SYD-SIN and get your BA sectors that way.
Unfortunately I think getting to Singapore this way is going to be more expensive than using QF or other airlines.