600,000 Qantas FF points

[turtlemichael]

That itinerary is under 25,000 miles. Was cost 280k points?

My understanding is the OP decided in the end to pay real money for the flights.

 

[Foreigner]

Yes, anything above 19,200 is 280K

Thanks. I suppose with 6 pax you will have limited availability in order to travel together. Can you suggest itineraries to get closer to max. 35k miles. Could be RTW, no?

 

[Princess Fiona]

Thanks. I suppose with 6 pax you will have limited availability in order to travel together. Can you suggest itineraries to get closer to max. 35k miles. Could be RTW, no?

There are lots of suggestions in the OW Award sticky, definitely possible to go RTW in multiple ways.
For me it wasn't about optimizing the routing to 35K, only concerned with having J travel to and around the LOTFAP.

 

[Foreigner]

There are lots of suggestions in the OW Award sticky, definitely possible to go RTW in multiple ways.
For me it wasn't about optimizing the routing to 35K, only concerned with having J travel to and around the LOTFAP.

Thanks. Maybe what I write now will be OT but I am thinking it could be better using 110k US Airways miles to create same itinerary you had.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Thanks. Maybe what I write now will be OT but I am thinking it could be better using 110k US Airways miles to create same itinerary you had.

You are correct. However I don't buy US miles and I have a lot of QF and AA miles which were used for these flights.

 

[Foreigner]

You are correct. However I don't buy US miles and I have a lot of QF and AA miles which were used for these flights.

QF points have so less value. Anyway...happy travels to OP.

 

[por930]

Seems like a nice itinerary ... By the way, you do have access to AA's Lounges via "class of service" if this is on "the same day" as your international segments.

Otherwise, you might like to consider an AA Admirals Club 30 day membership for USD99 - this gives access to a member and two guests at an Admirals Club During the thirty day period.

We are overnighting it in DFW, so this break means we lose the international connection. I have been looking at the USD$99 deal, which maybe an option, as you say, with one of us a member, the other can be a guest.

When we return, we will both be gold QF, so, a better time for using our points for the next trips, as a bit higher in the pecking order when the award seat crumbs from the P1 and P people fall.

I was amazed how easy it was to use the United site points booking system for three 'free' legs where we had 70,000 miles. It was like booking a normal flight. Wish Qantas would do similar to simplify their award points usage, though I suppose, not their idea to make points usage easy as this means giving some thing back to us.

 

[JohnK]

QF points have so less value. Anyway...happy travels to OP.

Wouldn't that depend on how someone earned those QFF points?

Say I gifted you 100,000 QFF points or you had to purchase 100,000 AA miles. Which is worth more?

 

[por930]

Because we are 'buying' this flight with real savings, no tax advantages, and no employer to fund the trip, I guess these flyer points/status points are more valuable to us, than if we were employees and were gifted them. Spoke to QFF people and they said we would each get approx. 860 status credits, plus FFPoints so, when we get back end of October, should have got back to Gold until 2016, with approx 700,000 FFpoints, which may help with award seat selections for the next jaunt. Our previous credits got zapped last month, which makes getting to plat status(meaning easier award seat selection) impossible without some serious saved monies being spent.

 

[SQ421]

Wouldn't that depend on how someone earned those QFF points?

Say I gifted you 100,000 QFF points or you had to purchase 100,000 AA miles. Which is worth more?

In that scenario AA miles will *cost* more but continue to have more *value* than an equivalent number of QF points. Price != Value

(Unless you want to redeem on EK, in which case QF points are great!)