These are fantastic prices for business class to Europe and America. Real prices are even a little cheaper than advertised. Eg. Sydney to Vancouver is $4744. Korean Air fly their A380 out of Sydney which is among the best business class product available. The fares allow for a stopover in Seoul too.
Ticketing Period : now ~ 30th November 2015
Departure Period : now ~ 31st March 2016
Blackout Period : 5th ~ 22nd December 2015
everyone likes a good bargain, including the luxurysuperrich.
How else do they stay super rich…
They get a better job
creative accounting
Not sure if the comfort of flying Business and adding an extra 50% flying time would be worth it. I guess only if you feel you would like to expereince business class at a cheaper rate.
I did find one fare leaving tomorrow and coming back next week for under $3K. Looks like its a last minute rate.
Flying first and business is only a bargain if you're doing so by redeeming free/cheaply acquired points. And yes, it is worth paying 2x the points for the luxury.
It's only extra flying time to the USA. For Europe it is pretty standard with only one stop in Seoul.
Is this a joke for Ozbargain community
Ah, an expert social commentator.
Did you realise that how some people get rich is to buy a bargain rather that pay full price.
Supermarket surveys found stores in wealthier areas were often cheaper than those in poorer areas
So that explains why my milk cost so much in Melton. Makes sense. Charge the poor more money because they're naive
While people on hundreds of thousands each year shouldn't scrimp on costs (it's pretty pathetic, really, if you're worth over several million, to pinch pennies), of course they'll look to save money on luxuries (saving $5k on their business class airfares several times each year will have some impact on their wealth).
There was a poster here last year asking which credit card she should use to pay for her husband's $800k tax bill.
Agreed, even the wealthy ones use their Amex Centurion cards to pay for antique purchases costing millions of dollars. Those millions of extra points will surely be useful for some nice redemptions.
The merchant bill must make the eyes water.
Any idea how many points per dollar a Centurion card earns?
No idea… don't even have the Platinum card yet lol.
Pretty similar to the platinum card but with a higher bonus points cap of 750k. Generally speaking it is 1 point per $.
@donga100: So the benefit in having it is purely for the side perks (lounge access, concierge, hotel status) and snob value.
@JohnHowardsEyebrows: Not exactly, it is a charge card rather than a credit card which means that your credit limit isn't counted as a liability so it doesn't affect your ability to borrow from other sources. 0.5 points per $ with ATO is also handy for some. The side perks are great if you do a lot of travelling as you get hotel/car/airline upgrades and status.
However, I imagine the $5000 per year annual fee would not be popular here… :)
@donga100: To get $5000 value, you'd have to be travelling a lot. To be travelling so much, you'd likely get status anyway. The fee might be tempting for all the perks, but the minimum spend to get invited (think it's $250k) on existing Amex cards is absurd (how does one spend that much on an amex, if not travelling, or shopping for overpriced luxury goods?).
@JohnHowardsEyebrows: You wouldn't necessarily have high status with all of those airlines/hotel groups and the Centurion would allow you to enjoy the benefits without going through the effort to earn them. Most people I assume use it for business expenses, booking employee travel, etc.
@JohnHowardsEyebrows: centurion card is actually a thing?!
I thought you just made that up to make it sound epic! (Which it rightly does!)
Something similar to… Unicorn card.. Maybe not
@Hirolol: It's a case of life imitating art. Rumours were circling that certain uber wealthy individuals (like the Queen) had black Amex cards, so they decided to cash in on the rumour.
@JohnHowardsEyebrows: Before we had google on tap, concierge was a pretty useful perk. Not so much now.
I thought there wasn't a points cap on Centurion card.. or is it the case in Australia? Some guy in China/HK bought antiques in 8 figure sum and paid using Amex Centurion
@lilkid28: There is a points cap on the bonus earn rates (eg. 3 points per $ at restaurants, 2 points per $ on airfares), no limit after that but everything is earnt at 1 point per $.
The European deals aren't that great IMO (check KLM) and I would wait for a Qatar deal to go on their A350 from ADL via DOH to Europe.
As for the USA deals, sometime Qantas runs special for Business around this price point which I would prefer as you are flying direct rather than via Korea.
Qantas have a special to San Francisco currently for Business Class which was $4900 last week for Nov-Jan travel period.
This is ozstingybargain. Not ozluxurysuperrich.