simongr said:
That was 3 J class rtn tix to perth wasnt it? That's one thing that makes a difference is the number of people travelling - multiple people means multiple fuel fines
3 J tickets routing BNE-xMEL-AKL-xMEL-BNE.
Similar difference if only one person flying. Points would have been 35,000 AA vs 100,000 QF. Taxes for AA for one adult would have been $85 and would have been $262.
And a big factor for me was that I earned those 105,000 AA miles, and hence 3 x J return award flights, on a single DONE4 trip (spend around $10,000). The same DONE4 credited to QF would not have even earned 1 of those award tickets. I would have needed more than 3 x DONE4 at a cost of over $30,000 to get the same award via QF FF program.
simongr said:
I I was putting another $80K of flights per year on my cards I might think about the earn/burn ratio of those. Maybe I might do some rework on the estimates I have if I factored in my CC points. I am selling this message to other people and dont want them to miss out on CC points if they pay for flights themselves.
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My ticket costs go on a Corporate Diners Club card for which I get 1 DC point per $ spent. I have not transferred any DC points out of their program yet. I expect they will eventually find their way to QF for me to use for long-haul international upgrades (such as 60,000 for J->F MEL-LHR). But they will remain in DC until I need them.
My Amex points (all personal spend since all business spend must go through the Corp DC card) will either go to QF for upgrades or to HHonors for hotel stays (at 1:1 transfer rate).