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Old Feb 4, 2015, 4:29 pm
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lowfareair
 
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Originally Posted by travel light
This just in: Changes to EarlyReturnsŪ Mileage Expiration
Beginning March 7, 2015, you'll need to earn miles using your EarlyReturns account every six months in order to keep the miles that are currently in your account.
For those with orphaned points, here are some of the points swapping options through points.com, per 1000 F9 points transferred*:

297 IHG
276 HA
233 Amtrak
198 AC
184 US
153 AA**
138 B6
138 DL
125 VX

I know the ratio is crap, but it is better than losing all of your miles. Other decent options include midsize car rentals except NY (7,500 for a day with Avis, 12,000 miles for a 2 day with National, 18,000 for 3 weekend days with Hertz) or "participating" (god only knows what that means) Radisson Hotels for 25,000/night in NA or 40,000/night Internationally. The Radisson could be decent if you are staying in some more expensive cities with decent Radissons (Austin, SF, Philly, Chicago, etc) but I have no idea what 'participating' means.

*You can transfer any number of points, minimum 1,001 F9 points per transfer, at a similar ratio, using 10000 as an example
**assuming you don't need the points right away, transfer points to US instead of AA, as the ratio is better and they will be the same number of points once the programs merge this spring

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