DONE to the Max: Creative ideas needed
Fellow Flyertalker! I find my self in need to be at the receiving end of the collective and individual knowledge of this forum.
Prologue: I planned two DONE4s for this year. The goal was to attend business meetings and to reach Qantas Lifetime Gold status on the way. Everything was nicely planned and so I started on my first DONE4. Hawaii, Los Angeles, London, Beijing, Tokyo, a beautiful collection of cities and earning enough Status Credits (SCs) to get me to lifetime gold after completing my second DONE4.
Everything would have worked nicely, wouldn't it have been for an AA MD80 which went technical on me at DFW. Because of this I missed two flights and I find myself now 220SCs short of reaching my goal if I would do my second DONE4 as planned.
For those of you not familiar with the QF FFP. Rather than EQM, QF uses status credits to determine your FF status. The number of SCs depends on the class you fly and on a range of distance in which the oneway flight falls. In the table below, a flight from JFK to DFW would give you 120 SCs because it books into A and because it is more than 1200 miles.
Table: QF SCs for bookings in D and A.
Distance D A
1 0-600 40 60
2 601-1,200 60 90
3 1,201-2,400 80 120
4 2,401-3,600 100 150
5 3,601-4,800 120 180
6 4,801-5,800 140 210
7 5,801-7,000 160 240
8 7,001-8,400 180 270
My current DONE4 goes like this:
SYD-HKG-BOM-HKG-CMB-HKG-JFK-DFW-LAX-DFW-ANC-DFW-LAX-LHR-LIS-LHR-HAM-LHR-HKG-SYD
This would give me 2100 SCs which now leaves me 220 SCs short of my goal.
The question to this esteemed forum is:
How can I get the required number of SCs (2320) out of this trip.
I must go to LAX, LIS and HAM on business. I am however willing to make HAM and possibly LIS sidetrips which I will book with points. So obviously I can then go LHR-MCT-LHR instead of LHR-HAM-LHR. This give me an extra 120 SCs, so just 100 more to go. Any ideas?