The easy DOUBLE status credits hack anyone can do! 

Hey Stef that is a ventilation building for car exhausts I believe

Interesting video although from my experience status credits can be earned FAR cheaper. For instance, it's quite common to see red e-deals between Sydney and Melbourne or Sydney and Brisbane for $100 which nets you 10 status credits so $10 per status credit. JetStar can also be quite a good deal too having flown Sydney to Darwin and Sydney to Perth on a Max fare for $330 AUD which earned 100 status credits. The best deal I've found thus far though was flying Sydney to Auckland (via Melbourne) for $1000 AUD in business class on Qantas. This was booked during their double status credit promotion meaning I will earn a whopping 480 status credits for $1000 in spend. Not bad! Another "trick" I use is to maximize the benefits of cancellations. When the airlines cancel my flights I try and book in as many connections as possible since that will attraction additional status credits at no additional cost to me (other than time I suppose). Now for flying in the US, the key thing to realize is Qantas doesn't understand US geography at all. A flight from Chicago to Seattle will earn the same number of status credits as a flight from New York to LA (in business class that would be 100 status credits one-way). Hence, a trick would be booking a trip where you cross the Mississippi thereby forcing Qantas to think you are travelling between the east coast and west coast of the US. For instance, instead of flying San Francisco to LA direct on AA you could book it as a connecting flight through DFW. In a business fare that would earn you 400 status credits (100 status credits from LA to Dallas, 100 status credits from Dallas to SF). That's just a start too! Flying between Hawaii and US West coast there's a similar trick too!

Love the nod the Casey Neistat with the running montage and music 😂❤

Although u can earn more SC by flying other airlines, you need to also fly min. 4 trips of QF flight to maintain the QFF Plat. status. I suggest ppl to look for double credit status promotion. I buy all my tickets in one go (Buy saver/Flex) and get to change the date with min. penalties then enjoy the SC boost.

Do you get lounge access with the First ticket alone? I thought the stingy US airlines limited access to status only. Take off may have been aborted if another plane was late exiting the runway. Saw an ATC video about that today so just a guess. Thanks for all the great videos as always.

Since becoming a private pilot my status has dropped. Flying everywhere locally myself instead. Sometimes those tunnel buildings are fake facades for things like fans and stuff.

My go to is Daily Bagel, corner of 1st Ave and E61st. Of course depends where you are staying in NYC - plenty of options.

What is the story with the dog? how can you get them in the cabin?

How much did you want to bump into Casey running down there!??

Not really a fair comparison if you compare economy in Australia with business in the US. Also, the flights you mentioned are larger distances then SYD - MEL.

Pilot misheard the call and tried to take off without permission?

Make sure to one day try out the superior Montreal bagels! 😉

Great hack, enjoyed the vid. The spot you stood on in Washington Square Park is where my wife had to help me up one night, after I went down on one knee to propose...

You will find better $$/SC with Alaska. Can get easily under 4 with a number of routes they provide.

Maybe accidentally started roll without clearance?

👍☑ What no costar Jackie in this one, oh well not all your videos have top notch talent I guess. Tks Stef

was that clapping on landing? I've never understood that...

Interesting Video from Timor Leste 🇹🇱

Yeh it’s a ventilation building. You can actually have a tour of one over in Liverpool for some reason.

Hope you enjoyed your stay in our fair city 🗽

Very nice..

Prolly traffic congestion led to the rejected t.o. The Pilot should have made an announcement as to the reason why.

The RTO it was probably due to some sort of pilot error or caution warning came on on the panel. If it would’ve been FOD on the runway are service vehicle not clear of the runway they would’ve made an announcement.

Does Qantas Gold status help you find more classic reward seats over silver and bronze or not really these days since Qantas release classic reward seats in batches for all?

Thanks for all the tips Stefan! But then Qantas is extending status one more time :) Just telling.

From all the videos I have watched you do not get lounge access when travelling domestic first class on the US big three.

Did you actually abort or was it a pre-emptive throttle up for a clearance that never came? Possible the crew thought they were going to be able to keep rolling into a 'squeeze play' departure that the tower renegged on. Not that I blame them... discretion is the better part of valour! And less paperwork!

I also wondered what credits you are getting. Qantas? How do you get them? Do you have to book using the Qantas website only? I have never been able to book a flight on the One World website using my Qantas points. Can I do that or do I have to only ever use the Qantas website to book?

Is your Strava public Stef?

Are you getting qantas status points on American Airlines. That won’t make much sense if you don’t fly American often

So here is my recent points booking story Qantas FF over 2 million points many from Amex business etc But haven’t flown much last few years as we all know why So have a business interest in NYC Decided to book a flight First Class using some points with dear old Qantas the former great airline I deserved it ok I wanted to go in February next year not peak time so thought points and pay yes ! So they wanted ALL my points yes ALL plus nearly $12k too Then I thought I’ll check the cost of just buying a FC seat Price ? $17000 return Conclusion over 2.5 million points is worth $5k It’s a rip off A Qantas rip off

Dear lord, the clapping after landing... Why America, WHY! It's like saying that you have absolutely no confidence in the pilots abilities to safely get you to your destination. Do you clap every cab driver or train driver? Why on earth do you clap a pilot?

Note that not every airline refers to it as Status Credit.. on BA it's Tier Points for example. And on American it's Loyalty Points which unfortunately are based on $ spend... A$8/SC is also rookie territory for Qantas. A few years ago (particularly when AA F earnt as First rather than Business) some multi-leg segments to the Carribbean could go as low as A$2/SC.

Jetstar regularly do $39 fares for Sydney to Melbourne or Adelaide to Melbourne. You don't earn any SC on the Starter fare but upgrade to a Starter Max fare for an extra $85 and you earn SC's at the QANTAS flexible economy rate. This would net you 20 status credits for $124 each way which works out to $6.45 per status credit. If you are flexible with when you fly and don't mind booking months in advance, this is an easy way to get some cheap status credits without relying on a double status credits promo

Ventilation shaft, similar to the ones you see in London

I have no idea how do these calculations

Meanwhile.....I just lost all my status credits, wwwwwhhhaaaa :( . Doesn't really help that I'm a once a year flyer now, does it, haha?

new york is sinking

Wow, I haven't heard clapping upon landing in a while. I kinda' like it. I almost mentioned in another video that we need more running content. Well, here it is!

Changi

Stef, just to let you know that there are two other RU-vid channels with the same name!

At 7:10 , perhaps a runway incursion, or the Pilots realised they weren’t completely configured for takeoff (didn’t quite complete the checklist before proceeding with the takeoff roll) ?

bro you got the best vlogs from an aussie!