MilesBuzz! - Inside Flyer/Starwood offer

I've been following several threads on this promotion including "Fly the concorde JFK-LHR for $1259 courtesy of Randy"
I'm new to FF travel and stumbled on this site a few days ago. I'm thinking of taking the plunge on this offer and am interested in having the *woods points transferred to Qantas. On the Starwood site this was listed under Qantas Airways "Starwood Preferred Guest members can transfer up to 39,999 Starpoints into Qantas Frequent Flyer points at a 1-to-2 ratio." How have you been able to get 125,000 points transferred?

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Hoss:
On the Starwood site this was listed under Qantas Airways "Starwood Preferred Guest members can transfer up to 39,999 Starpoints into Qantas Frequent Flyer points at a 1-to-2 ratio." How have you been able to get 125,000 points transferred? </font>

The limit is per every 24 hrs... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

And welcome to Flyertalk, Hoss!

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Hoss:
On the Starwood site this was listed under Qantas Airways "Starwood Preferred Guest members can transfer up to 39,999 Starpoints into Qantas Frequent Flyer points at a 1-to-2 ratio." How have you been able to get 125,000 points transferred? </font>

Hi Hoss, welcome to FT! The 39,999 limit is a per day limit. Most people have been transferring 20K Starwood points per day, so that they can maximize the free Starwood add-on of 5K points (you receive this bonus for each 20K transferred - thus, with the 39,999 daily limit, you are only eligible to receive one bonus per day). This way, you receive 50K Qantas miles.

20K Starwood + 5K free bonus * 2 = 50K Qantas

Yipee!!! Thanks so much for the quick responses. I love this site! ...now I just need to decide how many subscriptions I want.

Just a small reninder that the current Starwood offer is only current through June 30 at which time it reverts to the normal 1,000 points per subscription - so don't spend too much time thinking that you miss the deadline.

Thank you again Randy for the helpful reminder. I am debating doing this, so I will be quick about it.

Thanks!

I had a question too if anyone can answer. The concorde has been a dream as well for me to fly and this deal sounds great. In reading the posts, me, coming from Northern California, would have to arrange my own way to JFK for the concorde, but would be able to book the JFK-LHR-CDG flight using BA thru Qantas, BUT, my question also is: What are my alternative options in using this 125,000 award from SFO or LAX. Could I in fact book BA Biz from either of these starting points? Is 'any' BA metal flight good from any destination to any destination provided you stay within the 10,000 mile return limit? Coudl I in fact buy more subs for the 200,000 allowing me to still procure BA first class from SFO or LAX to LHR/CDG? or even further as long as its on BA metal? say India or Greece??

I am new to this site also

QUESTION: I have like a gazillion miles on AA...can I some how transfer them to Starwood then transfer again to Qantas to get this offer? Thx

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JHIN:
I am new to this site also

QUESTION: I have like a gazillion miles on AA...can I some how transfer them to Starwood then transfer again to Qantas to get this offer? Thx</font>

The same question was asked (and answered) on the AA forum.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum71/HTML/009870.html

Has anybody actually booked a flight on the concord using Qantas' miles?

I have been confirmed for my september trip.No problems once the points post to your Qantas account.Be aware that may take at least 30 days.

If you check the BA, Qantas or Starwood forums you'll find lots of FT'ers who've both booked & already taken Concorde trips both due to the IF promotion as well as by just transferring points to QF. The process (once begun) is relatively painless. I, for one will be travellng from NYC to Berlin next week via BA First & Concorde thanks to the information gleaned on this site http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mauld:
I, for one will be travellng from NYC to Berlin next week via BA First & Concorde thanks to the information gleaned on this site http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif</font>

What day are you flying this route? I'm flying JFK-LHR-TXL starting 29 June.

I'm on BA #184 EWR-LHR 6/20 First Class
BA #982 LHR-TXL 6/21 Business
BA #981 TXL-LHR 6/23 Business
BA #001 LHR-JFK 6/23 Concorde

Come to think of it, with so many of us doing the QF/BA Concorde trip due to this deal, we should set up a separate site so we can all post when we're travelling http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I was able to make two QF reservations quite easily. One using subsonic BA first class and one using the concorde. Quite simple

Just booked 5 rts. on the Concorde. Piece of cake http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Unless you just want to say you flew the concorde, save yourself 25,000 QF and go BA biz. Flat sleeper seats etc. The concorde is quite the cozy place. It is fast.

You may also wish to check QF redemption with some of their airline partners. With the 1:2 transfer, you actually use less miles than if you went to the partner direct.