twoner32

This post got me thinking...

http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemil...ransfer-bonus/

Here's a few points:
-My wife has 26,000 miles
-She needs to go to PIT in late Sept.
-Cost for the flight is $293.00 or 25,000 miles

She could care less about EARNING miles--

So I am thinking about transferring 25,000 miles from her account to mine-which would cost $280 and thus, I'd have 50,000 miles-Spend the 25,000 miles on her ticket-
Same amount of $$$ spent and I've have an "extra" 25,000 miles in my account for who knows what

Thoughts?

3Cforme

Your account nets 27,000 miles from this transaction after you have used your miles for an award ticket. Her account is emptied.

animalj7

It sounds like you are sold on spending the ~$300?

The third option would be just redeeming her miles for her flight and not spending the money to chase extra miles.

If you feel you are going to get more than $300 of value out of the extra 25K miles, then go for it.

Personally, I wouldn't buy the revenue ticket.

twoner32

Well she has a $75 voucher that expires soon...

fti

It is a tough call. If you bought her ticket, she would also have 25K miles that you could use sometime. And she would earn miles on the paid ticket. Seems like that is easier than the transfer for $300.

Plus, if you bought her ticket, it costs $293 = $75, correct?

DL miles can be used for low level awards, but it is very tough.

But there is no reason at all to transfer miles for $300 then use your miles for her ticket. If that was what you were going to do, just spend the $300 on the revenue ticket and leave the miles in her account. Same net difference, except that she will now have a few thousand more miles. Even though you said SHE could care less about earning miles, you certainly seem to care about it. I would rather spend $300 (actually $293 - $75), have 26K miles and earn more miles on a revenue ticket than spend $300 and have 27K miles.

twoner32

All good Points. But I would also have a ticket too for $300 and I would have 25k miles

But might just buy ticket.

fti

Whether you transfer the miles then use miles to buy the ticket or you purchase the ticket with $300 cash and leave the miles where they are, your net result is that you will have +-25K miles (just in your wife's account, not yours). I don't understand your point.

ffI

Use the voucher buy the ticket. = 220$ cost.

If you still want, you can now spend 330$ to move 26k miles to your account = not useful; you will have 52k miles for 330$ in 1 account.

If you want you can wait until she travels = 3k more miles = 29k miles transfer for 320$ will get you 58k miles in your account.

For you to spend 300$ to move 26k miles first to your account will just get you 52k miles - 25k for ticket = 27k miles for the 300$ + you can not use the voucher = 75$ loss. so 27k miles for 400$ = certainly not worth it.

aubreyfromwheaton

If you were transferring to get just enough miles for a J ticket that's worth more, then it would be easier to justify transferring i think.

otherwise you are just buying 25K miles for $280 and losing on the miles and mqm's you would get by just buying the ticket

Unless you feel that you can get secondary gain by transferring control of her miles to you, for example so that you can later book a LAS trip under the guise of "it's free honey"