There are a huge range of ways of collecting frequent flyer points.
With flying a lot less now I am retired a very small proportion that I collect are actually earned flying.
Qantas
As Australians we find it more useful to concentrate on collecting Qantas points, as they more useful to us.
Here are the the ways my wife and I collected 217,453 Qantas Points in the past year:
- Credit cards and banking 175,605 (81%) – Including changing credit card with a 100,000 bonus.
- Flights 20,750 (9%) – Of the 29 flights we took only 6 earned us Qantas points.
- Shopping 16,530 (7%) – Mainly Woolworth supermarket and fuel.
- Surveys 4,568 (3%) – I am registered with a Qantas survey site which pays me in points to do marketing surveys.
Even though we are keen points collectors we didn’t earn anything on restaurant meals, car hire, hotels, travel money, or insurance.
To give you an idea of what those points are worth we used them, with some points previously collected, for 2 Business Class single tickets to London in May this year (128,000 points each)
Other Airlines
I also collected 14,125 Emirates points and 3,400 Lufthansa points from trips to Iran and Bangkok .
No Additional Spending
None of the points we have gained have resulted us in any additional expenditure over what we would otherwise have spent.
We did get a new premium credit card but I have previously explained there are offsetting savings with that card.
Why not look to finance some of your holidays with Frequent flyer points?
Disclaimer I haven’t been paid or received any benefit from this post.
