[edison]

Yet another 40K points for Ultimate Card offer. Offers ends at end of March 2008.

American Express

[Mal]

Note the condition of spending $5000 before June 30, 2008 to earn 32500 points, 5000 points on your first spend and 2500 points for your first Qantas spend equalling 40000 points total.

[BiziBB]

What are the free flight redemption options - east coast or east coast-ADL only rather than SYD-PER or SYD-DRW?

The latter could be appealing for Asia-centric deals.

What are some alternative mile-award cards, which could net 20k+ QFF miles in six months?

Hopefully 36k miles would suffice for a QF award JFK-SYD later in the year.

[oz_mark]

The PDS (Qantas American Express Ultimate Card Product Disclosure Statement and Domestic Return Flight Conditions) is here:

http://www.americanexpress.com/austr...timatecard.pdf

Can do:

ADL -> BNE or MEL or SYD
BNE -> ADL or MEL or SYD
MEL -> ADL or BNE or SYD
PER -> ADL or MEL or SYD
SYD -> ADL or BNE or MEL
CBR -> MEL or SYD

[albatross710]

I love the way Amex think...listed for benefits are the following:

Other Benefits

• Annual Card fee of $395 p.a.
• Interest rate of 19.49%p.a.5

I don't think of fees and charges as benefits.

[beardoc]

Has anyone that has previously got the QANTAS Premium Amex with 17500 free points had any success in applying for these cards and getting them approved? I signed up with the Premium Amex in November, so am within six months, but if I can get this card, I'll happily cancel the Premium Amex if I can get the Ultimate Card - the 40000 points, 1.5 points per dollar and the free flight is too good to pass up!

Or am I out of luck being under six months? I'd really like to know other people's experience on this.

[JohnK]

Originally Posted by BiziBB

Hopefully 36k miles would suffice for a QF award JFK-SYD later in the year.

A one-way award JFK-SYD on QF requires 64,000 QFF points.

[nowork]

Hmmmm another 40,000 points could come in handy.....

[beardoc]

Just checking again - is anyone applying for this that has previously undertaken offers for the premium card or similar in the past?

[ksthommo]

Was weighing up the options of ditching the Amex Maximiser for a year and taking up this offer. Checked the Amex website for the Maxmiser annual charge ($144?) and the card is no longer listed. An old link took me to the Amex Gold Card.