Spending points/Airline/Getting free QF membership

[PLANT]

Hi there,

Have CBA card with 400,000 points
Want to go Brisbane to Heathrow Business class RETURN.
Which is the best FF club/airline to go with/join?
How many points including TAXES?

Can you transfer CBA points into another family members QFF account?
Can you then allocate the tickets to a another family member name from the QFF club?

Any Free credit cards giving FREE QF frequnt flyer club on join up?
Any cheaper than paying the $80? $90 bucks to join QF?

regards

[Commuter]

What sort of CBA card? Conversion ratio to FF points appear to vary depending on the type of card.

[PLANT]

Whoops sorry Basic/Standard CBA card.

[coyote25]

It's difficult to answer all those questions without knowing the CBA conversion rate and when you want to leave, I'll just cover off on QFF program.

Heathrow Business class RETURN costs 256,000, taxes need to be added onto this.

You can't transfer CBA points to anyone but yourself (or that used to be the case). However you can allocate 100,000 points to another family member from your QFF account per year. Having said that there is nothing stopping you getting an award ticket for a family member from your QFF account.

The only 'free' QFF membership I know of is the Earth card (www.earth.com.au) however you'll need to pay the annual fee. There promotions however also usually come with points so it can still be worth it. Keep in mind it can take up to 6 weeks to get the QFF membership via Earth (took a friend 2 weeks but plan for worst) so this might be a problem depending on how soon you wish to go.

Finally keep in mind it can be difficult to get an award seat to London at any time. It does seem to be a little easier now that the airlines are struggling for business passengers but still it can be hard.

Doing a dummy booking there are seats available 7 May 2009 returning 21 May 2009. Actually there are heaps of dates available but keep in mind you'll still need to be flexible. Good luck.

[2muchplastic]

Easiest way of getting a free QFF memebership is registering with a non AUS/NZ address (I used my semi-valid UK address - I still own the place!), then miraculously move to Aus a couple of weeks later and $82.50 is saved.

QF only make locals pay for membership for some reason.

[medhead]

NAB offered me free QFF membership as part of the changes in their cards to direct earn with qantas. This was for a gold rewards card.

Otherwise the earth card might be a good deal, annual fee of $75 and you can get 5000 bonus points if you apply by 10 Jan. Slightly better value then buying membership directly.

[straitman]

Hi there,

Have CBA card with 400,000 points

regards

PLANT,

Standard CBA card is a 50% ratio so 400,000 points equal 200,000 QF FF points.

[PLANT]

If I get platinum will my existing points go across to this card and be used in Frequent flyer 1:1?

[serfty]

If I get platinum will my existing points go across to this card and be used in Frequent flyer 1:1?

Yes, presumably I doubled my QFF transfer redemption value should I wish to go there ...

[Schebesta]

I was also offered free QFF membership with my altitude card as they were closing up the swap over.