Thanks for input.

Wow, playing with a million points is a bit of Russian roulette tho surely if as Randy says, they lower the transfer boom gate fast?

Here is an OPTION that some may like to look at.

Amex MR in OZ have limited transfer options.

The best one has always been one (oz) MR point = one Qantas FF point.

Qantas just did a TOTAL revamp of their scheme, possibly with consultant input from one Randy Petersen.

A superb thread outlining this new plan, with the head of Qantas FF scheme answering questions is here:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum39/HTML/000184.html


PART of this "new deal" is that for some reason Qantas will allow you to move 1,000 MR points into the QF sceme and give you a 20% "bonus" making 1,200 QF "Miles". I have about a million MR points, so I get 1,200,000 QF "Miles" with them on this basis.

With those QF miles I can redeem AA flight awards (or any One World awards of course) at better rates than I think it takes using AA points - even if you do have AA points. Better still I understand is that an American resident "transferring" his Amex account (and MR points) to an OZ address gets a far better deal than 1 MR = 1 MR as the OZ dollar is half the US dollar of course. i.e. right now I get one MR point for spending US50¢, AND a 20% bonus on that when I transfer it! Me spending US$10,000 (=$A20,000) gets me 20,000 QF points + 20% = 24,000 QF points, enough for many awards.

I won't spell it out in full here, but as I said, food for thought. Read the QF Forum, having a lot of QF points will be ahem, very useful when they transfer their scheme, in many ways.

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~ Glen ~