Day 6 1st April 2017
Mid trip round up.
This trip will should see me to Gold. All of the sectors
booked add up to 1760 Tier points with 1500 being the qualification for Gold.
You need 4 sectors booked either on BA metal or as a BA codeshare which I’ve
already got in.
As I land in HKG that’s 880 Tier points in the bag and around 20,000 avios.
I’ll take this opportunity to cost up the trip and put into
perspective what it takes to get to gold these days.
You can certainly still do it cheaper than this but my main
criteria was actually getting to places that I needed or wanted to be as
opposed to just flying around, I’ve routed through as many long distance pairs
as possible on this trip and put in a return to Tallinn at the start and end to
take advantage of physically needing to be at heathrow to start and end the
trip but I’d have been in Shanghai and Hong Kong on some kind of ticket
regardless of tier points.
Total flight costs for the trip:
LHR-HEL-PVG £1329
LHR-HEL-TLL-HEL-LHR £230
x 2 = £460
PVG-KUL-BOM-KUL-PVG = £552
BOM-KUL-HKG-KUL-BOM = £686
Total cost of flights = £3027. I actually had a £150
discount from Amex for this so the cost worked out at £2877 for 1760 Tier
points. £1.63 per tier point which is pretty good if you need to be somewhere
anyway.
The trip will also generate around 40,000 avios which I’d
value at between £200-300 conservatively.