<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by thezipper:
TC Fly Girl, former APN guy here... good luck with the Concorde award, I recently got mine booked for next summer, using the SPG>Qantas>BA route. Also, if you have AMEX rewards points, you can convert those to SPG points and into Qantas miles, but hurry, SPG is going to a 1:1 from a 1:2 Qantas miles ration at the end of the year. Good Luck!</font>
Major bummer on changing the conversion from 1:2 to 1:1 (sure enough, its noted on the Starwood site). This already was a great deal yet I was lucky enough to also convert AMEX MR points at 2:1 (special promotional conversion rate - normally it is 3:1) to Starwood then Starwood to Qantas at 1:2 which when combined with the 25% bonus given by Starwood for every 20,000 points transferred yielded (2) BA 1st Class awards N. America - Europe (each limited to 10,000 total miles flown including any open jaw) thru Qantas which are usable for Concorde on the JFK-LHR portion of the trip, the rest in Europe is in business class. All of this for a mere 100,000 AMEX MR points !!!
As they always say, anything that's too good can't last forever.