Status Points Run - Silver to Gold
 

Looking for advice. I'm 87 status points off Gold, need to earn SP by 20 August 2019. Any tips for the cheapest / easiest way to achieve this? I'll get 10-15 from credit card before then. From what I can gather it'll cost around $1k to get this, although I've been looking at this with severe jet lag :-) I'll be travelling to Europe again next year, so I think it's probably worth chasing the points. Thanks!

Isn't 20 a return trip wlg to Akl. Depending on which fares get and might be $400ish return?

20SP is about $150 tops, less if you're wanting multiple flights (remember even $39 main trunk flights are 8SP per flight)

Really depends on where you're based and where you want to fly..

$1k would get you return flights to Asia on sale. You can definitely get 20sp for cheaper. Fly between AKL/CHC/WEL on the A320s on the cheapest flights you can book.

OP said 87 SP off gold though correct?

I read it as 87 off but only needs 20 more before August assuming the other 67 is accounted for

OP needs 87 status points by 20th August and thinks s/he may be able to get 10-15 from credit cards before then, meaning s/he needs to earn a further 72-77 SPs by the 20th. Not sure where this idea of subtracting 20 from the 87 comes from (have people misread the 20th date as needing 20?)

Asia on sale would seem to me to be the fastest way of doing it, and could combine it with a long weekend at the same time. Otherwise it's the domestic shuttle?

Oh haha I see, we all misread it. We saw "20 August" and thought of that as 20sp.

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Sorry for the confusion, yup I did mean I need the points by 20th August :-)
And should have mentioned I"m based in Auckland.

I'll check out the Asia sale!

Need 87 SP
 

How many from flights and how many from credit card ?
If you can get 87 from credit card and you do not need flights then maybe just pay some rates or tax ...they are surcharged but a lot cheaper than flights

...and a warm welcome to FlyerTalk :)

I looked into this for fun.

I took a random day with domestic fares on sale - August 14th.

8:30am - 9:35am (AKL - WEL) - $39 8sp
10:04am - 11:05am (WEL - CHC) - $89 8sp
12:05 - 1:05 (CHC - WEL) $69 8sp
1:35 - 2:35pm (WEL - CHC) $89 8sp
3:05 - 4:05pm (CHC - WEL) $69 8sp
4:35pm - 5:35pm (WEL - CHC) $269 21 sp - flexi ticket
6pm - 7:20pm (CHC - AKL) $259 18sp - flexi ticket

TOTAL: $883 / 77 SP so you'd need that extra 10 or so SP you'll get from your card. If you think you'll get extra SP than just 10 you could downgrade some flexi tickets to normal tickets.

Looking into it, it's either do this or take a long haul flight there/back. Honolulu in The Works looked to be your cheapest ($860 for 74 SP if you get the on-sale fares going right now). Neither options are convenient, but at least this one would take 1 day versus 2 whole days spent on a plane in an economy seat. I would definitely pick this over a return Honolulu flight unless I was going to somehow make a vacation out of it.