thank you birdstrike. 1 and 2 were the facts. Anyway you have answered my question. I better order the magazines. I will call tomorrow and let you know on this thread about getting multiple years subscriptions pd in advance. I have about 500000 miles currently in AA. However i want to save them as i will be using some for europe 2for 160000 miles. Big difference between the cost for quantas and British Air. I guess I will get the starwood points. I suppose I could order all the magazines in one name put in it one starwood account transfer to one quantas account and get 2 tics issued from that account-- one for me and one for my husband.