Is it just me? or are Qantas FF miles worthless?
Jul 2, 2012, 9:57 pm
#20
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: wurtulla,queensland,australia
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Well I am with Aadvantage and LTP.Wife is with QFF and WP-that means as we basically do the same travel-in J-it is easier to reach OWE with QFF.
Upgrades on QFF can be reasonable so a good use of her QFF points.
Third the ability to get miles and SCs on QFF any seat awards is certainly better than Aadvantage.
And 4th-getting to QF gold or plat means entry into QPs/J lounges as well as ACs/flagship lounge.
5th-ability to transfer miles for free with QFF
So definitely some positives for QFF v Aadvantage
Upgrades on QFF can be reasonable so a good use of her QFF points.
Third the ability to get miles and SCs on QFF any seat awards is certainly better than Aadvantage.
And 4th-getting to QF gold or plat means entry into QPs/J lounges as well as ACs/flagship lounge.
5th-ability to transfer miles for free with QFF
So definitely some positives for QFF v Aadvantage
Jul 2, 2012, 11:47 pm
#21
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Well I am with Aadvantage and LTP.Wife is with QFF and WP-that means as we basically do the same travel-in J-it is easier to reach OWE with QFF.
Upgrades on QFF can be reasonable so a good use of her QFF points.
Third the ability to get miles and SCs on QFF any seat awards is certainly better than Aadvantage.
And 4th-getting to QF gold or plat means entry into QPs/J lounges as well as ACs/flagship lounge.
5th-ability to transfer miles for free with QFF
So definitely some positives for QFF v Aadvantage
Upgrades on QFF can be reasonable so a good use of her QFF points.
Third the ability to get miles and SCs on QFF any seat awards is certainly better than Aadvantage.
And 4th-getting to QF gold or plat means entry into QPs/J lounges as well as ACs/flagship lounge.
5th-ability to transfer miles for free with QFF
So definitely some positives for QFF v Aadvantage
AA anyseat awards are not ridiculously priced unlike QF ones; 2x miles for an anyseat award as long as appropriate of Y,J or F is available... no 1,000,000 costs ever quoted by AA; it can be possible to receive credit for anyseat AA awards if credited to a different scheme
Lounge access is indeed a benefit of QFF
Transferring miles for free may indeed be a benefit though personally haven't had much use for it
AA also permits awards to be booked for anyone rather than just family
AA also provides 8 Systemwide upgrades at top tier status which is quite a bonus
This week however, US Airways is my favourite; just purchased 150k miles for about $3700 and got a 1st class return from LHR-SYD for trip back to Oz
Jul 5, 2012, 12:01 pm
#22
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Our upgrades are from J-F on QF.
Any seat awards are not all ridiculously priced.Have recently scored 2 JASAs SYD-JNB at about 10% above the classic award points.Then 2 FASAs at the J classic points price JNB-SYD.Those I regard as good value.
And we also bought our US miles last week.
Any seat awards are not all ridiculously priced.Have recently scored 2 JASAs SYD-JNB at about 10% above the classic award points.Then 2 FASAs at the J classic points price JNB-SYD.Those I regard as good value.
And we also bought our US miles last week.
Jul 5, 2012, 4:32 pm
#23
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Sydney, Aus
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Not really. It depends on how you look at it. I managed to book two RTW first tickets using miles for this year (of course, booked 12 months in advance). Yes, it cost 900,000 odd points, but then I wouldn't have gotten those points in the first place if I'd used AA as probably 75% were from credit card spend.
Jul 5, 2012, 5:08 pm
#24
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Not really. It depends on how you look at it. I managed to book two RTW first tickets using miles for this year (of course, booked 12 months in advance). Yes, it cost 900,000 odd points, but then I wouldn't have gotten those points in the first place if I'd used AA as probably 75% were from credit card spend.
Jul 5, 2012, 5:41 pm
#25
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The best use of QFFFP I have found is for some (not all) domestic business class QF Any Seat award. There are occasionally stupidly cheap ones around and you get some points back as you earn points and SCs (not that SCs matter to me) on them.
Jul 5, 2012, 5:44 pm
#26
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Jul 6, 2012, 5:20 am
#27
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Any seat awards are absolutely wonderful. I like how I can, with a bit of searching get a one way F seat from SYD-LAX (or vice versa) for 144,000 QFF points and earn points and SCs towards requalification.
Have already booked by JASA for MEL-LAX-JFK return for next year. ^
Jul 6, 2012, 6:49 pm
#28
Join Date: Jun 2012
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I was just looking at any seat rewards for MEL-FRA (F class) and every day was roughly 692,000 points each way. Of course I was looking at the next couple of months so that may have something to do with it, but how did you find an F seat for 144,000???
Jul 7, 2012, 12:13 am
#29
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Citibank Platinum (now closed) $125 annual fee (1/2 price) > 60,000 QFF Points
Deathstar Mastercard $0 annual fee (first year) > 30,000 QFF Points
(...and a Virgin Flyer CC with 50,000 Velocity Points).
Speaking of Velocity...it can offer much better value than QFF...e.g. EY flights to Europe with no fuel fines.
Jul 7, 2012, 4:55 pm
#30
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I had a fully refundable Business any seat award for MEL-LAX booked at 11½ months out with an Expertflyer alert for P class.
That came up (luckily I guess) 8 months out and was able to book FASA online and cancel the JASA.