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  • Transferring your frequent flyer award miles between airlines

    Did you even know that you could actually transfer frequent flyer miles from one airline to another? You should certainly read on if you only need a few miles to get a free flights or you have some miles close to expire that you already gave up on.

    The answer to your problems of getting those miles you need or ‘recycling’ the ones that are about to be expired is transferring them to another program!  The below chart will show you what are the best and weakest transfer rates for different programs and airlines – if you’re a frequent flyer, you should really know how transferring your frequent flyer award miles works. 



    Plan Ahead!

    I would recommend you to acquire a Chase Saphire Preferred Card with 50K bonus points, then you can easily convert the points at a great 1:1 rate to boost your airline accounts by just calling Chase Saphire. You can also acquire an account Starwoods Preferred Guest and a Starwoods card, with this Starwoods card you get 10K award points – you can transform those to the same amount of American AAdvantage or Delta Skymiles bonus miles or 5K United Mileage Plus Miles, you just have to make a call to Starwoods.

    Transferring miles through a middleman

    Hilton Honors can be used as a middleman for award mile transfers, but they transfer with a very bad rate.  Amtrak is good for Continental points, but has got its limits.

    Points.com allows you to transfer miles from one program to another, it is costly in terms of points and cash alike, but you might want to take a look at it still.

    Start with miles in Transfer Ratio Middleman Transfer Ratio Turn bonus miles into Gotchas
    American Express 1:1  
    Alitalia MilMiglia
    Aeromexico
    Aeroplan
    All Nippon Airlines
    AirTran
    British Airways
    ElAl
    Frontier
    Flying Blue
    Hawaiian
    JetBlue
    Iberia
    Singapore Air KrisFlyer
    Virgin Atlantic
    Virgin America
    Best Western
    ChoicePrivileges
    Jumeriah
    Hilton Honors
    IHG Priority Club
    Starwood
    There are some programs where you cannot transfer directly, but if you really need to, for those you can use third parties like Amex, Starwood or even Hilton Honors if you’re very desperate.
    Continentale.g. 10,000 1:1 Amtrak e.g. 10,000 1:3 Hilton HonorsChoice Privilegese.g. 30,000 Must be Amtrak Select or Elite, or hold an Amtrak Guest Rewards MasterCard, max 50,000 points/yr
    Starwood  
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    65:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    2:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:2
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    1:1
    2:1
    2:1
    1:1
    Aeroplan
    Air Berlin
    Air China
    Air New Zealand
    Alaska Airlines
    Alitalia MileMilglia
    ANA All Nippon
    American AAdvantage
    Asia Miles
    Asiana
    British Airways Exec Club
    China Southern
    Continental OnePass
    Delta Skymiles
    Emirates Skywards
    Flying Blue
    Hawaiian
    Japan Air JAL
    Kingfisher
    LAN Lanpass
    Mexicana
    Miles and More
    Qatar
    Saudi Arabian Air
    Singapore Krisflyer
    Thai Airways Royal Orchid
    US Airways Dividend
    United Mileage Plus
    Virgin Atlantic
    VARIG Smiles
    Very good rate for conversion, if you need to top up a program use Starwood!
    Chase Ultimate Rewards   1:1 Most Airlines including United Mileage Plus
    American
    Amtrak
    CSA Czech
    Hawaiian
    Icelandair
    Mexicana
    Olympic Air
    Virgin Atlantic
    3:5
    1:3
    1:1
    1:2
    1:2
    1:2
    1:2
    1:2
    Hilton Honors
    4:1
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1
    1000:2
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1.5
    1:3
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1.5
    10:1.5
    10:1.5
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1
    4:1
    10:1
    10:1

     

    10:1
    10:1.5
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1.5
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1.5
    10:1
    10:1
    10:1
    10:0.85
    10:1
    10:1.5
    Aeromexico
    Aeroplan
    Air Berlin
    Air China
    Air New Zealand
    Alaska Airlines
    All Nippon
    American AAdvantage
    Amtrak
    British Airways
    Cathay Pacific
    Continental
    CSA Czech
    Delta Skymiles
    Etihad
    Frontier
    Gulf Air
    Hawaiian
    Icelandair
    Japan JAL
    Jet Airways
    JetBlue
    LAN
    Kingfisher
    KLM/Air France Flying Blue
    Malaysia
    Mexicana
    Miles&More
    Olympic
    Qantas
    Qatar
    Saudi
    Singapore
    South African
    TACA
    THAI
    United MileagePlus
    US Airways
    Virgin America
    Virgin Atlantic
    Increments of 5000;90% reduction in value, but if the points are going to expire or never be used anyway, using Hilton as the transfer is a method of last resort.
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