<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by eager to learn:
I want to start by thanking all the people on this board from who i have learnt so much. I have some questions-- thought i was good at math but find I am lost. so here goes: </font>
I don't think 1 and 2 were questions
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">3. I have a diners card and a British Air account.
Should I get starwood points to transfer to Quantas or to AA (AA needs 105000miles to fly each of us bus. class sfo to sydney) Or should i get 3500 diners points and transfer them to BA for 3500 miles.</font>
According to the Starwood site, transfers from *wood to AA are 1:1, transfers from *wood to QF are 1:2 so for every *wood point you transfer, you get 2 QF FF miles. If you had no miles in AA then we could eliminate AA just based on the conversion ratio. Since you don't say how many AA miles you currently have it will be imposssible to decide which is the better airline for you.
Transferring 20,000 *wood points to a FF program adds a "bonus" of another 5,000 *wood points to the transfer.
A QF BC award requires 100,000 miles which in turn requires 40,000 *wood points.
40,000/2,500 *wood points/subscription = 16 subscriptions or $960 per person.
I believe the BA award is also 100,000 miles, but I may be wrong. If it is then:
100,000/3,500 miles for the DC promo = 29 subscriptions or $1,740 per person.
The QF site says that extra miles may be required for stopovers. Be sure to check my math for yourself
YMMV.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">4. If i order say 30 subscriptions can i order them for 6 people for 5 years? this way i can keep 1 and give 5 different libraries a subs for 5 years.</font>
I would like to know the answwer to this as well.
Cheers,
birdstrike