Just to clarify something:
With 125000 points I can use BA to fly from JFK to LHR in First Class go on using Club World to AMS and return to JFK the same way. True?

By the way: Club World is Economy? I can't fly Business?

Thanks for your help.

"With 125000 points I can use BA to fly from JFK to LHR in First Class go on using Club World to AMS and return to JFK the same way. True?"

Actually it is false. You can fly JFK-LHR in 1st or on Concorde and continue onto AMS in Club Europe (not club world) and then do the same on the way back"

"By the way: Club World is Economy? I can't fly Business?"

Club Europe, which you would be entitled to use, is BAs European business class

Club World is BAs Longhaul business class product

Euro Traveller is BAs European Economy Class

World Traveller is BAs Long Haul Economy Class

Dave

Thanks Dave for the clarification.

I got a little mixed up with all the "world", "club", "traveller", ...

Dave Noble

May I impose on your expertise here

I want to do LAX-JFK-LHR and return in BA first with concorde for JFK-LHR. SInce I will be exceeding the 10,000 mile limit and will be using the next category of miles, what would you suggest as further destinations in europe to get the max out of the 15000 mile category?

MAD, BCN? any other thoughts would be most appreciated

The next category is 17,500 miles. You will need a One World award since JFK-LAX will have to be on QF or AA. The cost is 230,00 points.

LAX-LHR and LHR-JFK-LAX comes to 11,350 miles leaving 6,150 miles to play with.
You could go to Cairo for 4380 miles round trip leaving 1770. If you spend the 10,000 points for a stopover in London , you could pop over to Madrid whcih would cost 1548 miles.

The trip to Cairo would be in 1st and Madrid in Club Europe.

If the idea is to do a Concorde trip, have you considered buying a cheapie ticket from LAX-JFK and then doing a 10,000 mile trip from there which will save you 105,000 points?

Dave


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Thanks for your quick response.

Somehow the thought of a trip in coach before and after a concorde trip does not have much appeal, to me it would not fit the experience.

Perhaps I could use 40,000 AA miles for business from LAX to JFK, as a separate ticket, that's better than spending 105,000 extra miles.

Would the following work within the 10000 mile limit

JFK-LHR-Malaga(Spain)JFK
JFK-LHR-Scottland/Ireland-JFK

I am going to hop on the bandwagon and try to get 2 SSC awards through InsideFlyer subs. My math is that I buy 40 subs and will trnsfer them for 250,000 QF points (40*2500*2=200,000 and 5*5000*2 for every 20,000 transfered). Is that correct?

Biggest concern: The second ticket will be for my girlfriend travelling with me, BUT the QF brochure I just got says awards are only for husband/wife domestic partner/de facto. De facto we live together but her german ID is registered to her own appartment. Anyone here with experiences how QF want you to prove domestic partner/de facto ? Does it help that we are travelling together?

Any hint is very much appreciated.

Don't worry...QANTAS are NOT that strict. See the thread below.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/006718.html


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kpc

I am a QF member but not Starwood. Can I do the Starwood thing with the magazines and get the points transferred? And is there an expiration for the 2 for 1 deal posting?

Also when does the subsription drive end? I have been travelling and lost the end date.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

RJ

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The magazine promotion ends at the end of April, only a couple of days left. I am going to order mine tomorrow!

Question to all Qantas-freaks:
When I get my 120000 miles transfered, do I get a silver membership-card? Gold? Platinum Lifetime?

You get Bronze (the zero status level). To get to Silver you have to do 1 paid round-trip in F, or up to 18 paid round-trips in discounted coach. Gold is double that, Platinum is 4 times as much. Lifetime gold is available, at 700 discounted short round-trips. Or about 25 paid F SYD-LHR trips. You actually have to fly to get status (and need Platinum status to get award availability for many of the interesting routes and dates).

Technically QF requires 4 flights per year on QF to participate in the FF plan; maybe Qantas is drooling at all these Starwood points being transferred into QF and then selling those 4 flights to these plan members while holding their points hostage (the QF terms & conditions allow Qantas to refuse award redemptions until you complete the qualifying 4 flights). I'm sure Qantas would never do that, now would it? But some enterprising consultant might point out the revenue from all those brand new, never flown Qantas and never will, but now highly motivated potential customers.

Technically QF requires 4 flights per year on QF to participate in the FF plan; maybe Qantas is drooling at all these Starwood points being transferred into QF and then selling those 4 flights to these plan members while holding their points hostage (the QF terms & conditions allow Qantas to refuse award redemptions until you complete the qualifying 4 flights). I'm sure Qantas would never do that, now would it? But some enterprising consultant might point out the revenue from all those brand new, never flown Qantas and never will, but now highly motivated potential customers.

OH SH!T!

When I get my 120000 miles transfered, do I get a silver membership-card? Gold? Platinum Lifetime?[/B][/QUOTE]

SETJET!!!!
you are REALLY funny!!!

I am waiting desperately for the next 2 weeks as i want to do my concorde flights late april next year. they book 50 weeks in advance.

I think that getting the LAX-JFK on a separate ticket is worthwhile. It would cost 45,000 points using Qantas miles for a business return ticket on QF or AA. I don't know whether you would be able to book the award on Qantas, which is far better than AA, but if you can I would choose that over AA.

You could do either of those easily. To get better value, if you were to pay for a ticket to Madrid from Malaga ( about $85) you could do more

Within the mileage, you could do JFK-LHR-AGP
, purchase to madrid, MAD-BHX-(EDI OR DUB or GLA)-LHR-JFK

which would get you to Malaga plus Edinburgh, Glasgow or Dublin. You need to go to Madrid to be able to avoid London since you can only pass twice through the same city.

The flights to Malaga and from Madrid to Birmingham would be in business class. The flights to and from dublin would be in business class. If you go to edinburgh, it is a one class service so it'll be in economy.

That would cost the 125,000 points plus stopover costs.

Dave

Just called Qantas (and had a good look around the T&C in the website) - can't see that limitation anyway and the booking people knew nothing of it either. Is it perhaps region specific?



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