Originally Posted by
racekp
140 odd SP seems alot to be chasing, you'd want to have some international travel lined up to make best use of being Elite over Gold. I'm going to be in a similar positon in about 2 months but I'll be looking at chasing ~50SP for Elite which I'll be doing for the sake of a $400-500 spend (I hope). From what I have previously read you should be able to get a SP earn rate of better than ~$10/point if you are looking at a pure SP run
It's not so much Elite I'm after - it's the soft landing in Feb 2021 back to Silver if I don't get to Elite by end-June I'd like to avoid. If I get to Elite I'll probably soft-land back to Gold end June 2021 to end-June 2022 . Yes, we'll be travelling internationally to US East Coast and also Europe in these two years, possibly 3 or 4 times, AU on business mutiple times but low SP earn as mentioned. Koru has been good to me/us (4+ years local and International) but it's the expanded Star Alliance network/ lounge options I'm interested in if I choose NOT to fly AirNZ particularly ouside NZ. And there is the possibility I could retain Gold but I'd "manage" that scenario, quite probably in a similar manner.
Again, hoping that makes sense... in other words currently $10 per SP to get me <us> two years expanded travel options....