Originally Posted by jon503

I just created a new thread on this because I didn't see that the new rules were already being discussed here. You are both right and wrong about the 40k for achieving. It's still 40k, but now only 30k of those need to be flown and the rest can come from OZ affiliated credit card spending. Getting 10k miles from credit card spending is really easy to achieve, especially over two years. This means that now say, someone flying ICN-JFK once a year and flying somewhere to SE Asia or even someone just flying between Europe and Australia once a year could get Diamond status. I mention JFK because the number of Koreans doing that is quite large. I'm afraid that the value of OZ Diamond has just gone down quite a bit. I predict very full lounges and as per the discussion above about upgrades, I think it will take Diamond+ soon to have any shot at an op up.