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Diners Club allows you to transfer Diners Club points to AA - and if you do so indirectly, via Starwood, then you get a modest uplift in the points that you accrue.

Here's a table for those considering purchasing a Global Explorer (mileage based) ticket, rather than the more expensive One World Explorere (sector based) Country / local currency AU$ Australia...

Good question, serfty. I don't know - and would like to know. The fares are taken off the oneworld site, and converted from local currency into AUD using www.xe.com . I don't know if the oneworld site includes the 10% discount in its fare estimator. Of course, currency fluctuates all over...

Here are some prices (with some gaps) for economy class, using xe.com: ONE3 / ONE4 / ONE5 Australia - ... / 3150 / 3,600 Indonesia - 3,765 / 4,518 / ... New Zealand - ... / 2,700:cool: / 4,518 Thailand - 3,617 / 4,347 /4,999 Singapore - 4,241 / 4,810 / 5,532 Hong Kong - 3,735 / 5,242 / ...

Evan, Did you end up ticketing ex-ICN? I am looking at doing a DON4 ex-ICN - but I have no travel plans to enable me to pay for the ticket in person at ICN. Does that mean I am stuffed??? What I really want to do is go: MEL-LHR-MCI-MEL for the least $$$. A straightforward trip, not...

Quite correct - my bag. The DONE3 ex-South Africa price I earlier posted is in fact the DONE4 price (and the DONE4 price I posted is the DONE 5 price)

For business class, South Korea and South Africa are both attractive... EX- DONE3 / DONE4 Australia ... / 9,900 Japan 10,171 / 12,095 Hong Kong 10,752 / 12,132 Malaysia 10,233 / 11,571 New Zealand ... / 8,875 Singapore 10,639 / ... South Africa 6,637 / 7,622 South Korea 5,727 / 6,826 :D...

Fellow FFers If, like me, you are considering buying some Aadvantage miles in the near future, check out this offer from AA, effective from 1 February: Special Offer - 30% Bonus!* Buy American Airlines AAdvantage® miles between February 1 and March 31, 2009 and earn 1,500 bonus miles for...

Fellow FFers, I am able with accumulated cc points to book two business class ATW tickets (5 stops) - one ticketed via AA (150,000 points) and one via QF (280,000 points). A third ticket for baby can be purchased through QF for taxes only (contrast AA who charge 10% of ticket class plus...

Thanks Simongr and NM - your comments are very helpful and much appreciated! smithy789

Fellow FFs, The smithy789 clan (me, wife and 3-month old) are planning a 4-week around the world trip in May 2009. A straightforward itinerary (shame, I know) of Melbourne, London, Lyon, Kansas City, Melbourne. Ideally we'd like to cash in some points and travel in business class all the way...

Good thinking - but unfortunately, the concierge service can't help me - they can't buy AAdvantage points for me with my Citibank points (although they can, of course, purchase tickets for me).

Hi All, Have any of you more experienced FFs yet found a way to convert / launder either Citibank points or Westpac Altitude Points to AAdvantage points? re: Citibank, this question was raised back in 2006, but so far I haven't seen a way to do it. Has anything changed? I have (like many...

Hi Frequent Flyers, I would like to fly from Melbourne to London to be there on the 31 August for a family pow-wow. Plans are a bit last minute, but I don't want to / can't pay 'through the nose' for the priviledge of flying at short notice. Tickets seem to be about the A$3,000 level...

The promotion is with Diners Club - not everyone's favourite card, but certainly mine. The promotion is with their business card - for which you need to have a registered business name and also to be registered with the ATO. Formally, the offer expired at the end of January 2008, but there is...

Possibly - but that's the fun thing about spare time: I get to choose how to spend it. Any contribution on my cunning plan? Smithy789

Hmmmm... I wonder what happens if the refund is made to a card such as ANZ's new balance visa card - (where you accrue points for paying off debt, not for accruing the debt in the first place...) Is that double dipping? It would look like this: 1) Book a $5,000 ticket, say with AA MEL-LAX...

Thanks fellow FFs - you've givem me some good ideas... Are stopovers allowed en route - either within Aus or to NZ? (That would be too good to be true I'm guessing)

Fellow Frequent Flyers, My better half and I have both finished a AA platinum challenge each and accrued a healthy 24,000 odd points each. Thanks AA! I understand that for 20,000 each we can take an internal return flight from Melbourne within Aus or even make it to New Zealand and back...

I see that Velocity is offering a 50% increase on points transferred from Diners Club to Velocity (up to the 30 May 2008). Is this a good deal? I haven't flown with Virgin Blue / Virgin Atlantic & their partner airlines much - and have focussed on gaining AA platinum more recently through...