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Howdy folks,

Need some help here.

I've read the Inside Flyer website - I love it. I'd like to buy a subscription for myself and a couple of other FF's that I know.

Here's question for the gurus:

1 - I fly mostly AA and stay at mostly Hiltons. Secondary (about 5% of my travel) is Delta and Marriot; given this - what 'points offer' should I take when buying the subscriptions?

Thanks in advance,

Pakse

Well, the current thought would be that you should take the SPG points, transfer them to the Qantas program, then redeem AA awards from within the Qantas program.

Howdy,

If I have say, 7500 Qantas points, and say 20000 AA points --> Any way I can combine them to get a 25,000 economy ticket AA award?

Thanks,

Pakse

No, but you can transfer 20K SPG points into 25K AA miles.

[This message has been edited by mktozd (edited 04-08-2002).]

Awesome - if I can redeem SPG points for AA points - I'm home free.

Thanks much, I must have missed this.

Pakse

Pakse - SPG has the following conversions with these airlines.
Keep in mind that if you transfer 20K you get a 5K bonus, so your 20K+5K=25K.
Double that on Qantas!

Airline Conversion Rate
Starpoints to Miles/Points)

Air Canada Aeroplan 1:1
Air FranceSM Frequence Plus 1:1
Air New Zealand Air Points 1:2
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan 1:1
Alitalia MilleMiglia 1:1
All Nippon Airways ANA Mileage Club 1:1
America West Airlines FlightFund 1:1
American Airlines® AAdvantage 1:1
Asiana Airlines Bonus Club 1:1
British Airways Executive Club 1:1
Cathay Pacific® Asia Miles 1:1
Continental Airlines® OnePass 1:1
Delta Air Lines SkyMiles 1:1
El Al Israel Airlines Frequent Flyer Club No transfer option
Emirates and Sri Lankan Airlines Skywards 1:1
EVA Air Evergreen Club 1:1
Japan Airlines JAL Mileage Bank 2:1
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flying Dutchman 2:1
LanChile LanPass 1:2
Lufthansa Miles & More No transfer option
Mexicana® Frecuenta 1:1
Northwest Airlines World Perks 1:1
Qantas Airways Frequent Flyer 1:2
Qualiflyer 1:1
Saudi Arabian Airlines Alfursan 1:1
Thai Airways International Royal Orchid Plus 1:1
United Airlines Mileage Plus 1:1
US Airways Dividend Miles 1:1
Virgin Atlantic Airways Flying Club 1:1

so 4 subscriptions equals 10,000 Quantas Miles, which equals 20,000 SPG which equals 25,000 AA?

No.

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[This message has been edited by cactuspete (edited 04-11-2002).]

Looks like someone has decided to profit from the Inside Flyer promo on Ebay.

Another 500K auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=1345610140

Just out of pure curiosity - do the airlines monitor sites like ebay for people who sell 'coupons' etc. on a regular basis ?

If this is the case, the seller may be on much firmer legal ground.

While you're not allowed to sell your AA miles, I don't think there are any rules against Starwood-to-AAdvantage transfers.

The same seller also has a VIPOW for sale on eBay, so he's not worried about the AA cops.

http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAP...id=chaneytexas

HI Pakse-

Since you seem to be interested in domestic (US) coach awards, be aware that (According to the chart at:
http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/...erAwardTables)

20,000 Starpoints= 25,000 AAdvantage miles

20,000 Starpoints= 50,000 Qantas points. According to the chart above, an AA award through Qantas (for between 2001-5400 miles) is 30,000 points in Coach and 45,000 in Business

So, for 20,000 starpoints you can put the points into AAdvantage and fly a coach r/t, or you can fly in AA biz through Qantas and have 5,000 points left over!

Does this math check out?

Are we sure this 500,000 mile auction (just about to end) and another one he has up for 100,000 miles is from this promo. I thought for SPG to mileage transfers had to be done to your own account. Something on the SPG site that says the names on the accounts have to be the same.

I called and confirmed that both the name and address must be identical for a transfer.