tingadingling

The wife has an opportunity to renew her KF Gold by paying about USD350 due to a card link up and some particular circumstances. It will entail rerouting a J booking for 2. How would you value status? Not an especially big deal, but am interested in how others perceive the value of status.

I can think of a few approaches to evaluate this -

Convenience and time:
- Ability to use business check in (god send when queues are long), but of no value while flying business for work which is maybe 25 times a year
- Boarding early, only valuable when in economy (~10 times a year)

Cost savings:
- Lounge access. Somewhat nullified by Priority Pass, but perhaps there are better *A lounges in Asia/Europe/US which are not PP?
- Excess baggage. Rarely hits the cap but >20kg may happen once or twice a year

Service/intangibles: when s*** hits the fan and there are cancellations, irrops etc, maybe better customer service? Potentially invaluable but difficult to value! I find PPS service decent but recall that KFG wasn't forthcoming when it came to clearing waitlists.

When we fly together then she can benefit from my PPS, which is a few times a year.

Any thoughts?

Phaze

I'm clearly missing something here. 25 trips in business a year = PPS to pretty much any destination in the route network with the exception of maybe KUL depending on when the booking is made. Who cares about KF gold?

tingadingling

New job, therefore new flight pattern. The question is relevant to the next 1 year. After that, you're likely right - not sure if $25000 spend for PPS is guaranteed since most will be regional, but Gold should be fine.

garykung

The real benefit of *G is you can have at least business class entitlement while flying in Y. So a better approach is to evaluate if the travel will be done majority in J or Y.

If in Y, you know the answer.

Name one PP lounge that is as par as a SKL or *G lounge.

Even with PPS, your benefit can be only partially extended to your companion.