I've started my travel hiatus and am planning out the rest of my year; I'll restart in about 6 weeks and should be at ~115k SQM and 19,400 SQD by the end of September. I thought it would take till my last Asia trip in November to hit SE but I made a critical error. I didn't realize I was going to be this close and flew a DEN-YEG booked directly on United to get an Amex statement credit and missed out on the SQD.

I have an AC to AC transfer on seperate tickets as part of my November trip and thought SE and concierge access might help me out of a jam if it happens. Is doing an SQD run in Sept worth it to get SE before that trip versus maintaining my 75k peasantry until I my outbound credits?

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