I have been reading the posts on site all night long, trying to work out whether I should switch to AA from QF.
Which brings me to the question, if you earn a lot of points on credit card (by spending other peoples money), in the order of 400,000 points per year, is it worth converting them to AA points? You seem to lose a lot of points in conversion even allowing for the 50% bonus AMEX offers on dollar for dollar purchases.
400,000 AMEX points converts to 100,000 AA miles or 400,000 QF/Virgin or 200,000 Cathay Miles). Or $3200 (at 12,500 points per $100 Myer / DJ gift card).
I have lifetime QC membership, so status points are not all that important. 100,000 AA miles would appear to qualify for AA exec. platinum status, although it seems to be an expensive way to buy it.
My thoughts are that it is better to take the AMEX points as gift cards, hotel rooms etc.
Going forward, I recently flew to the US and back on Qantas Business, and around US on AA. It is likely to happen again once or twice a year. From what I have been reading, I figure it may be worth doing this on AA rather than QF. Mel to LAX to NY and back.
Regards,
Johno
Which brings me to the question, if you earn a lot of points on credit card (by spending other peoples money), in the order of 400,000 points per year, is it worth converting them to AA points? You seem to lose a lot of points in conversion even allowing for the 50% bonus AMEX offers on dollar for dollar purchases.
400,000 AMEX points converts to 100,000 AA miles or 400,000 QF/Virgin or 200,000 Cathay Miles). Or $3200 (at 12,500 points per $100 Myer / DJ gift card).
I have lifetime QC membership, so status points are not all that important. 100,000 AA miles would appear to qualify for AA exec. platinum status, although it seems to be an expensive way to buy it.
My thoughts are that it is better to take the AMEX points as gift cards, hotel rooms etc.
Going forward, I recently flew to the US and back on Qantas Business, and around US on AA. It is likely to happen again once or twice a year. From what I have been reading, I figure it may be worth doing this on AA rather than QF. Mel to LAX to NY and back.
Regards,
Johno