<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by shillard:
As previously mentioned, QF elites can also qualify for lifetime free membership by obtaining lifetime gold, at 14,000 status credits (the equivalent of 10 cunningly planned F RTW trips).</font>
Or those who are really cunning can do it in 4 trips. As an academic exercise I worked out the maximum for an AONE6, and it is 3800 status credits (also 170K QF miles). Not bad for approx. AUD 16K, and almost all of the cities are ones that I would want to visit (great places like Easter Island, for example, though I suppose IPC can't be called a city). I suspect another 10% could be added to the mileage and status credits if the routing is picked solely for maximum credit.