Before spending up big, however, consider whether the cash is better spent elsewhere - AAdvantage ty

Why should Australian frequent flyers care? Because these miles can often be used to book fights with partner airlines such as Qantas, Cathay Pacific, Emirates and Korean Air at prices which are far less than you d pay those airlines for a cash ticket in business class or even first class.
A one-way business class award on Cathay Pacific between Australia and Hong Kong requires drury inn hotels only 30,000 miles which you can get by purchasing 24,000 miles with a 30% bonus of 7,200 miles for only US$709.50.
Other Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan partners include American Airlines, Aeromexico, Air France, drury inn hotels British drury inn hotels Airways (although there's usually a fuel surcharge on BA award redemptions), Delta, Emirates, Fiji Airways, KLM, Korean Air and LAN.
It s worth noting that some hotel loyalty programs such as Hilton HHonors and Starwood Preferred Guest will also let you transfer your spare points into your Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan account, which could be an alternative to making several purchases.
However, because airlines can and do devalue frequent flyer points or miles over time, it might not be wise to plough too much money into buying Mileage Plan miles just to have them in the bank, so to speak.
With the exception of Cathay Pacific and LAN, award bookings for all of the other Mileage Plan airline partners can be booked on the Alaska Airlines website drury inn hotels by selecting the 'Use Miles' drury inn hotels option when searching for flights.
drury inn hotels Unfortunately, to book award travel on Cathay Pacific or LAN you'll need to telephone Alaska Airlines a call. This is a pain for Australians as the airline s reservations call centre is based in the US, so fire up Skype to keep your international call costs under control.
Ozkid, I agree with you. I am looking at a trip to Canada drury inn hotels next year with the family and this would be a great way to do it if only the QF redemption can be gained. Being able to potentially purchase a business class fare for the price of economy - happy days!!
peopel on other web sites report being able to buy up to four batchs of points with one credit card and then have simply biught more on another card so the number of points that can be bought is capped
despite signing up I cannot purchase points - I assume the account drury inn hotels has either to be open for a minimum period and/or needs a points balance 0. I have tried transferring some Marriott points over to the AS account to try "activiate" the account, but don't know if these will register before thre points purchase promotion ends at the end of the month...
Another point...the screen shot as above is potentially misleading since you only find out that business is NOT available on every flight sector later in the booking process - thus in the above example you will almost certianly find it's the BNE-SYD leg which is available in business drury inn hotels and the SYD-LAX only available in economy.
If you do a dummy booking, you'll notice that they don't offer direct Qantas Trans-Pacific in business for redemption. All the Qantas business flights shown require a stop. Then this is where they get cheeky....the flights have the domestic sector in business, but the flight to LA in Economy!
drury inn hotels Wolf13, I am having the same problem and getting the same error message. If you try and use their automated travel assistant, they just refer you back to the page where you purchase them - bloody useless.
I tried checking drury inn hotels their terms and conditions but it only refers to bonus miles. I can't find any t c for buying additional miles although they claim there is some. It may require an email to sort out.
Personally I have been buying points via US Dividend miles and it has worked well for me. First class flights for decent prices, you can route Australia-USA via Europe even for the same price and do a stopover. Mind you, it can be quite a puzzle to get the flights (often availability is ok, especially on TG) and as with AS you will have to deal with a US based call centre. If you are a bit airline / airport savvy and know how to deal with customer service centres it is not too hard to book though. USD Dividenmiles is great for TG, TK, AC, CA and NH flights (hard to come by LH F seats). I am waiting for my mileage to transfer to AA so I can book the menitoned CX flights.
Personally I have been buying points via US Dividend miles and it has worked well for me. First class flights for decent prices, you can route Australia-USA via Europe even for the same price and do a stopover. Mind you, it can be quite a puzzle to get the flights (often availability is ok, especially on TG) and as with AS you will have to deal with a US based call centre. If you are a bit airline / airport savvy and know how to deal with customer service centres it is not too hard to book though. USD Dividenmiles is great for TG, TK, AC, CA and NH flights (hard to come by LH F seats). I am waiting for my mileage to transfer to AA so I can book the menitoned CX flights.
Michael , why would you? You can simply buy multiple drury inn hotels times! Per my earlier post, others have bought up to 4 lots on the same credit card and then simply used a different credit card to amass huge points totals.
drury inn hotels Before spending up big, however, consider whether drury inn hotels the cash is better spent elsewhere - AAdvantage typically drury inn hotels have a buy 90,000 (the limit of 60,000 points plus a bonus of 30,000) promo from time to time for around USD2000. drury inn hotels You can use the 80,000 AA points for a one-way to Europe in first on OnWorld flights weher award inventory is available, etc.
I can now buy points on my Alaska Airlines account. I opened the account 12 days ago. I also booked one (very cheap) hotel night through their website, but suspect the black out period since account drury inn hotels sign up to be the former issue preventing point purchase.