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Old Jul 29, 2016, 3:22 pm
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Question Booking flight to Cancun

(apologies for my very basic questions...)

I have a basic business Citibank card with over 200,000 ThankYou points. I am booking flights for 2 from PDX to Cancun. When I priced it out on the ThankYou Rewards travel center the flights will cost 144,000 points. The flights are American Airlines.

I just learned recently about transferring points over to the airline directly and then booking reward travel. Would this be a better deal for these flights? If so, how do I find out exactly how many points to transfer over? Do I do this through the Rewards center?

Thanks in advance!
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Old Jul 29, 2016, 3:31 pm
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American Airlines is not a transfer partner of ThankYou points.
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Old Jul 29, 2016, 5:31 pm
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You need to look at their transfer partner's award availability. I see some flights for 25k/pp roundtrip if you were to transfer to AirFrance and use Delta.
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Old Jul 29, 2016, 5:39 pm
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Originally Posted by travelfam7700
I have a basic business Citibank card with over 200,000 ThankYou points.
As far as I know, to be eligible to transfer points to airlines or Hilton HHonors you need to have a Prestige or Premier card. Does your ThankYou Rewards account show the transfer option?
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Old Aug 1, 2016, 5:11 pm
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A belated thank you for the helpful responses. I will check to see if I can transfer the points, if not I will just book a regular reward ticket.
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