BA Gold - any better way of getting there?
 

Morning all. So, my BA status resets in early November, I would like to then get to gold as quickly and cost effectively as possible, and I need to go to Taipei. Currently the best option I can find is as follows:

LHR - DXB - BA Y - 20tp
DXB - CMB - UL J - 140tp
CMB - CGK - UL J - 140tp
CGK - CMB - UL J - 140tp
CMB - DXB - UL J - 140tp
DXB - CMB - UL J - 140tp
CMB - CGK - UL J - 140tp
CGK - HKG - CX J - 140tp
HKG - TPE - CX J - 40tp
TPE - HKG - CX J - 40tp
HKG - CGK - CX J - 140tp
CGK - CMB - UL J - 140tp
CMB - DXB - UL J - 140tp
DXB - LHR - BA Y - 20tp

Total TPs 1,520 Total cost £2,285 (I will do a ver quick LHR-AMS turnaround for the remaining 2 BA sectors).

It will be a bit gruelling, especially with the late night short hop UL flights ex DXB, so does anyone have an better ideas, that include TPE for travel between 10-30 November?

Moving this to the BA board.

Gardyloo
Oneworld moderator

It's not quite the full monty 1,500, but something along the lines of:

LHR-HEL (overnight HEL to be safe)
HEL-somewhere nearby in Europe e.g. ARN/CPH
[CPH]-DOH
DOH-CMB (redeye)
CMB-DEL
DEL-KUL (redeye)
KUL-TPE

The above should be 720 each way.

Gold for < £3k, mainly in business - is that a record?

A scenic ex-DUB to HNL used to give 1000+ TP for a little over £1k per person. Topping that up to 1,500 was fairly oainless, albeit on a longer timeline than the OP.

560tp on UL for the DXB-CMB-CGK for £640 and each sector just over the magic 2000 miles

AMS-LHR-DXB-LHR might be a very cost-effective way of getting one of your additional two sectors. Get the second one by positioning to Dubai on the same plane from Heathrow, and you're sorted.

Yes that is what I am looking at right now - thanks

Won't work for you as you'd want to do the flights in Jan for 2 yrs status - but if you're happy with Oneworld Emerald vs BA Gold then the current Malaysian "triple" everything promo is very interesting - book by TONIGHT (KL time... so 5pm UK) though.

I haven't run the numbers fully but cost wise seems like running Y segments could actually be best....44 of them @ around 1100gbp. that's a lot of MH peanuts and juice tho :D

im sat in CGK about to do my second return run of the month CGK-CMB-DXB-LHR
Had to do it for business anyway.
Did PE DXB-LHR-DXB and got bumped both times on last run, so fingers crossed again for this one.
Did a few DPS-KUL-SIN runs on MH for peanuts as well which picked up 160 for about 250 GBP each time
Add in a couple of LHR-AMS-LHR runs and pretty much there when i get back to DPS next week

I think 44 Y sectors on Malaysian would be a bit out of the time frame I have :) - Thanks for the suggestion though, triple everything is great, but honestly not sure how they work fully, so would have to do a lot of studying to understand and booking before 5pm.