Moderator: Asiana & Qantas Frequent Flyer
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: STR/SYD/SMF
Programs: QF LTG / P1 , LH LT SEN / HON, OZ LT Diamond +, Marriott LT PT, HH Diamond,
Posts: 15,149
Hendrik, yes, you can get to IPC as part of an award and many people here have done this. Or as part of a xONEx.
But, LA has the habit to make only a fraction of the award seats available to other OW members. I was trying to book PPT-IPC as a QF award next year and there is no availability at all over a 5 months period. LANPASS however shows availability on almost every flight.
So if you have no plans to fly OW anywhere in the near future I'd suggest you join LANPASS for this. You will need 45,000km for this award. When you sign up to LANPASS online you get 5000km bonus, so you need another 40k. That would be for example 20k SPG points (actually gives you 50k km).
I see you are an Amex Platinum, so maybe you can transfer points from Amex to SPG and then to LAN. There might be many other ways as well.