Fly the Concorde for $1259 Roundtrip

[sgopal2]

1) Open a starwood preferred guest account. You can join for free by going to http://www.spg.com

2) Buy 21 subscriptions to Inside Flyer magazine @ $59.95 each by going to http://www.insideflyer.com/starwood

Total cost to you is $1258.95. Get a total of 52500 starwood points. Give away the subscriptions you don't want to charity or your friends.

3) Open a Qantas Frequent Flyer account: https://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyns/joinff

Transfer the 52500 starwood points into a Qantas account. One starwood point is worth 2 QF points, so with the starwood bonus, 52500 starwood points becomes 125,000 Qantas points.

4) Redeem 125,000 Qantas points for a roundtrip ticket on the concorde.

Regular round trip flight on the Concorde (LHR-JFK) is $12,749.02. Enjoy the extra $11,490 you just saved. The concorde flies at Mach 2. One way from London to New York is usually about 3.5 hrs. Supposedly you can even see the curvature of the earth from the great height that the bird flies.

Credit to Johnep1 who originally thought of this idea on Flyertalk.com:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/006677.html

Hurry. Offer ends June 30!!!

 

[aphex]

dear lord... this reminds me of the dude in Tampa that tried to get a Harrier jet from Coke/Pepsi...

I guess in theory it would work, but would anyone wanna temp it?

 

[crypticlogin]

Hahaha! That's an awesome deal if it works out. And I think this reminds me more of the guy who bought the Snackwell's pudding (and donated it to charity) for like a million frequent flier miles than the harrier/pepsi guy.

 

[sgopal2]

The deal works. I read flyertalk.com a lot. If you goto the British Airways forum, there are several reports of people taking advantage of this to get a cheap RT ticket on the concorde.

Supposedly its not that difficult to get reward seats from Qantas either. One glitch would be if Qantas decided not to give up any reward seats on the Concorde....but many people have posted that seats are pretty easy to get.

Do a search on flyertalk.com on the BA, Qantas and Starwood forum for details.....it really does work

 

[aldamon]

Originally posted by: sgopal2
Supposedly its not that difficult to get reward seats from Qantas either. One glitch would be if Qantas decided not to give up any reward seats on the Concorde....but many people have posted that seats are pretty easy to get.

Wow you mean $12000 seats aren't selling? LOL.

Wow, if I were going to the UK I'd jump all over this. Just the experience alone would be worth it. Hell, you might even sit next to Sting or some other celebrity.

 

[mark7636]

Which Starwood bonus makes up the missing 20000 miles? (52500 x 2 = 105000)

 

[TheFishingGeek]

Fly the Concorde for $1259 Roundtrip

Hot damn! I'd better hurry home and start practicing on MS Flight Sim!

 

[drewdogg808]

Hot damn! I'd better hurry home and start practicing on MS Flight Sim!

LOL!

 

[sgopal2]

Originally posted by: mark7636
Which Starwood bonus makes up the missing 20000 miles? (52500 x 2 = 105000)

Starwood has a threshold bonus for point transfers. I don't remember the exact details but I believe for every 20,000 points transferred out, starwood kicks in an extra 5000 miles....read the entire thread in the flyertalk link above for more details.

 

[gotsmack]

I want to fly the concord too.

 

[freebee]

I was in a concorde about 10 years ago. Its incredibly small, compared to regular jumbo jets. I got to sit in the royalty seats....even got some kinda certificate. Never actually flew in one though, mine was a demo.

 

[wuhoo]

so a normal concorde flight costs ~$22k??
wow....some people just have too much money on their hands

 

[slycat]

~shudder~

seriously though'..could u like exchange the points for something more realistic like
free hotel/resort stays...etc..?...like sheraton.

 

[UNCjigga]

Also, remember that every Concorde flight comes with a commemorative kit with silverware, Concorde First Class crystal, photoframe (with a pic of you in your seat), ticket portfolio etc. (need to look at my dad's and see what all was included again...)

EDIT: Seats are not as comfortable as the First Class seats in modern BA jetliners (767, 777, Airbus A3xx etc.)--they are much smaller. Also, it is incredibly loud.

 

[DongTran]

Originally posted by: wuhoo
so a normal concorde flight costs ~$22k??
wow....some people just have too much money on their hands

some folks can make that much in a matter of hours. the time you save from flying on the concorde may be well worth it then...

 

[jackwhitter]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Also, remember that every Concorde flight comes with a commemorative kit with silverware, Concorde First Class crystal, photoframe (with a pic of you in your seat), ticket portfolio etc. (need to look at my dad's and see what all was included again...)

EDIT: Seats are not as comfortable as the First Class seats in modern BA jetliners (767, 777, Airbus A3xx etc.)--they are much smaller. Also, it is incredibly loud.

but to go mach 2!?! (that's approximately 1400 miles per hour depending on your altitude!) SWEET!

 

[Yobbo]

My car can go 1400 mph...why do I need a plane?

But seriously, sweet find for anyone who has $1259

 

[sgopal2]

The roundtrip cost to the concorde is $12,479 not $22K. The amount I quoted above is for round trip fares, not one-way. Once the miles are in your starwood account, you can pretty much do anything with them. There are lots of starwood partners: all major airlines, amtrak, upromise.com, many charitable organizations, AT&T, Avis, Gap, Saks 5th Ave, Wallstreet journal...

Here are some other intangible perks to flying the Concorde:
- Leave London at 10:30 AM and arrive in NYC at 09:25 AM (hence the saying "arrive before you leave")
- Curvature of the earth visible at 50,000 feet
- Windows on the concorde are warm to touch and even GLOW due to the immense friction
- Unlimited caviar and champagne throughout the flight
- Sit with celebrities

Yes -- the seats are smaller than other international First class seats -- but who cares you're only on the bird for 3 hours instead of the usual 8 hour transatlantic flight.

 

[Garet Jax]

Originally posted by: sgopal2
The roundtrip cost to the concorde is $12,479 not $22K. The amount I quoted above is for round trip fares, not one-way. Once the miles are in your starwood account, you can pretty much do anything with them. There are lots of starwood partners: all major airlines, amtrak, upromise.com, many charitable organizations, AT&T, Avis, Gap, Saks 5th Ave, Wallstreet journal...

Here are some other intangible perks to flying the Concorde:
- Leave London at 10:30 AM and arrive in NYC at 09:25 AM (hence the saying "arrive before you leave")
- Curvature of the earth visible at 50,000 feet
- Windows on the concorde are warm to touch and even GLOW due to the immense friction
- Unlimited caviar and champagne throughout the flight
- Sit with celebrities

Yes -- the seats are smaller than other international First class seats -- but who cares you're only on the bird for 3 hours instead of the usual 8 hour transatlantic flight.

Could they slow the plane down a little so I could enjoy my experience a little longer

 

[EvanGeliSt]

Lol

 

[BA]

Oh man, I might actually have to do this. Going to Europe at the end of the summer anyway, the extra $300 to fly on the Concorde might be worth it...

 

[bigjohn456]

You also get the pleasure of saying to the guy next to you, "I paided $1258.95 for this seat. How much did you pay?"

 

[aeroguy]

I want to fly on a concorde sooooo bad. Too bad I can't afford it. Anyone wanna help me out? I'm just a poor college student.

 

[TurtleMan]

wow, this is one crazy deal... COncorde ~~~

 

[Krk3561]

EDIT: Seats are not as comfortable as the First Class seats in modern BA jetliners (767, 777, Airbus A3xx etc.)--they are much smaller. Also, it is incredibly loud.

How could the plane be incredibly loud if you are traveling faster than sound?