Originally Posted by
PaulC852
OK, so today's challenge is to work out the cheapest way of maintaining CX DM (let's for a moment ignore the fact that getting there requires rather more). Is it really significantly less than HK$200,000?
Potentially by my numbers - one would need to spend ~30k GBP /300k HKD (including taxes) to maintain BA Gold / OWE.
6-7 round trips to Milan in J would net you 1200 SC, which is roughly 200-250k HKD? If you nest that trip within a few multi-cities ex-PEK/PVG/TPE I think you could make DM for less?