American Express Membership Rewards - Can you transfer Hilton HHonors Amex point to regular membership rewards?

Is points earned using the Hilton HHonors AMEX card able to be transfered into regular AMEX Reward points? If yes, at what ratio?

Thanks

To my knowledge there is no airline or hotel program that currently offers transfers into Membership Rewards. However, you can borrow 15,000 Membership Rewards points (60,000 if you have a Platinum or Centurion card) through a feature called Points Advance which you can read about on http://membershiprewards.com

Is points earned using the Hilton HHonors AMEX card able to be transfered into regular AMEX Reward points? If yes, at what ratio?

Thanks
My vision might be clouded but why would you want to do this? Have you considered a trade in the coupon connection?

My vision might be clouded but why would you want to do this? Have you considered a trade in the coupon connection?

Could be that I am just misunderstanding how it works,
but I only really need points to redeem for flights, and it appears to me that you can earn points faster using the hilton hhonors that by using a regular amex card.

It's true that you earn 1 point per dollar when using a Membership Rewards card versus 3-5 points per dollar when using the HHonors card, but they aren't the same points. Just as countries denominate value in various currencies, each loyalty program invents its own pseudo-currency. American Express purchases points from Hilton and deposits them in your HHonors account. The greater number of points per dollar reflects the lower value of an HHonors point, but also the fact the Hilton has also allowed Citi to offer an HHonors VISA. Competition is a wonderful thing ;).

You can convert HHonors points to airline miles. 10,000 HHonors points converts to 1,000 or 1,500 miles, depending on the carrier. However, most would agree that HHonors points are more valuable when redeemed for lodging.

You can also purchase pts from AMEX at the rate of 1,000 per $25 up to a max of 500,000 pts per year