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    Separate Tickets with Emirates - luggage checked through?

    Hi all, Can you experienced Emirates flyers help me? I plan to bring a family member to Australia, using QF points to purchase three separate award flights, flying F with Emirates: LHR - DXB, DXB - SIN, SIN - MEL. 1) Will Emirates check luggage all the way through from LHR to MEL 2) Is...
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    AMEX - cancellation before first annual fee

    My mate has received brand new AMEX Explorer card. The bonus points for meeting the spend requirement have landed, and the $400 travel voucher is also present. The annual fee doesn't yet appear on the account, and may not appear for another few weeks. Does anyone know: Will the annual fee...
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    AMEX 250,000 MR for Corporate Platinum Card with AccessEdge Enabled

    Anyone else received this offer (via LinkedIn) today? What do you think of it? I wonder if paying ATO bills through AccessLine account would work? Hi ... Have you thought about what 250,000 Membership Rewards points could get you? The points you earn can be used on yourself, your family...
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    Switching from Signature to Prestige

    Hi all, I use the Citibank Signature (fee-free for life) credit card, and have accrued a stack of points. Does anyone know if I can sign up for the Prestige card (assuming I meet the criteria), elect Qantas, and have the rewards points that I accrued with the Signature card transferred to the...
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    MEL-LON for family of 5

    Can anyone help me with the following? I am planning a trip for 5 (2 adults, 3 kids) from MEL to the UK (preferably BHX rather than LHR) in business, ideally using points, for three weeks over Easter / late March 2017 I have 890,000 citibank points (signature card - not citiprestige) and...
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    Best one-world airline to accrue points from Y+ LHR-MEL-LHR flights

    Wise FF'ers, my folks have recently flown BA Y+ LHR-MEL-LHR. They haven't joined a FF program yet and so haven't collected the points. They are happy for me ultimately to have the use of the points. I am thinking of registering them with AA - where I have a lot of points - or alternatively...
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    75,000 / 100,000 Aadvantage points - Citibank (USA) credit card offer

    (Offer expires 31 October 2010) For those of you with American ties (social security number / US credit history) there is a great deal if you sign up for an Aadvantage / Citibank (USA) credit card: Receive 75,000 or 100,000 miles (it seems to be random which offer you receive). Here is a...
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    Purchasing AA miles - bonus 30% offer

    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...
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    QF & AA ATW - availability

    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...
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    Help - ATW with American or Qantas?

    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...
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    Citibank points and Advantage Points to Aadvantage

    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...
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    Last Minute Flight tips

    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...
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    Best use of AA points in Aus

    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...
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    Velocity 50% bonus to transfer Diners points

    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...
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    Bonus Points - Cunning Plan

    Fellow Frequent Flyers, A credit card I use has me signed up on a deal offering me 3 FF points per dollar up to the first $10,000 that I spend. I'd like to rack up $5,000 by the end of this month in order to get the extra points - but I don't want to spend the money - if you know what I...
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