Concorde travel on miles?
 

Hi guys, I've seen postings elsewhere about Concorde travel on miles, but does anybody know if I can use my AAdvantage miles to fly BA concorde? I've used AA miles to fly BA before with no problem. I've phoned AA and the response was not encouraging but I think that it may be because it was an unusual request and the agent on the other end (quite unusually) simply didn't know the answer. Any help is much appreciated, trying to organise special anniversary trip for my wife!! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/thumbsup.gif

I think the answer is no. You can't accrue or redeem AA points on BA trans-Atlantic flights or vice versa.

Qantas is what you need to get this done 125K points gets you the Concorde on BA booked in Z class.
You may want to try coupon conection and see if you can do a swap for Qantas miles. You may also want to check if award seats are still avaliable before you try.I sometimes have read that there are no seats avaliable and then someone says they opened up,you may want to do a search on this.

I used 160 K to fly AF Concorde on 5/21. I had called almost daily this month and there were no seats. Thanks to a FT posting last week, I snagged one! If you can work out the mileage issue, I would keep calling AA/ Qantas, etc to see if one opens up. As you can imagine, they are quickly snatched up.

It is TRULY a ONCE IN A LIFETIME experience!! Give it your best shot! What a great anniversary present! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

There are still some seats available in June, July and August. BA released a batch of seats about 9 days ago and these are the remnants. Westbound seats are much more difficult to come by than eastbound, but 'twas always thus.

Remember you can fly concorde one way and BA
first on the return.This is how I went and am happy I did. I enjoyed each way for different reasons and still got great use of my miles.

Did you book using AAdvantage miles?

I've got boatloads of points in CO Onepass, Amex MR, Hilton HH, Marriott MR (Probably not enough, though). I don't see any easy way to convert any of those to QF at all or at any (reasonable) rate. Any ideas?

You can convert your American Advantage miles into Diners Club points. Starting June 1 you can then move your Diners Club points into British Airways Executive club miles. There is no dilution in this transfer.

Diners Club limits the conversion from American at 50,000 miles. In practice I do not know if this is enforced. You might want to do another search.

Good luck!

At some point doesn't the number of QF miles required jump from 125,000 to 200,000??

After 10,000 miles. Since (BA) Concorde only flies JFK-LHR (and return) you can continue on to almost any city in Europe on the same award.

If you live in the West, you could get to NY on your own and then fly New York to LHR on Concorde, and then back to Denver or Seattle in BA F on your award.