50% bonus for converting your hotel points to U.S. Airways miles
Mar 11, 2012, 5:47 pm
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50% bonus for converting your hotel points to U.S. Airways miles
50% bonus for converting your hotel points to U.S. Airways miles March 11 – March 31, 2012. Most hotel chains are listed. This is a particularly good offer for conversion of Starwood points to Star Alliance member U.S. Airways miles - every 20,000 points will convert to 37,500 miles. Caution: Dividend Miles members will earn only one bonus when they transfer hotel points into Dividend Miles during the promotion.
Last edited by pgary; Mar 11, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Mar 11, 2012, 6:02 pm
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Also should combine with the current Amex MR to SPG point transfer bonus of 2:1. Neither is a truly great offer, but 40,000 MR points, to 20,000 SPG points, to 37,500 US Airways miles is not a bad idea in certain situations (mine would be one of those!).
Edit: Just completed the aforementioned transfer through SPG. Good to finally find a use for me of the Amex MR points, since I wasn't too thrilled with their current partners as I focus on AA and US.
Edit: Just completed the aforementioned transfer through SPG. Good to finally find a use for me of the Amex MR points, since I wasn't too thrilled with their current partners as I focus on AA and US.
Last edited by TheBOSman; Mar 11, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Mar 11, 2012, 6:09 pm
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Does anyone know how often these come around? Don't have a need for Dividend Miles in the next year or so, so if this is a recurring bonus, might just wait. ALthough I guess the AMEX --> SPG bonus doesnt happen often?
Mar 11, 2012, 6:49 pm
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I can't find anything in googling it. Also, the current Marriott Rewards to US Airways transfer is 125,000 Marriott points for 50,000 Dividend Miles. I do not see a near 4x bonus coming.
Mar 11, 2012, 7:04 pm
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Mar 11, 2012, 7:46 pm
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Mar 11, 2012, 8:00 pm
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My sister has US, and I have SPG.
We have the same last name and address, so I am hoping to get them into her US account with the bonus. I would prefer not to have to wait a month though.
Instead, get mom an SPG account if she doesn't already have one. Wait 30 days, then transfer the points to her SPG account from yours (assuming she has the same address on this account as you do), then have her transfer the points over to AAdvantage from her own SPG account.
Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Online Guest Feedback Coordinator
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
DAMN, probably won't get the US bonus now.
T&C shows this
Both accounts must have been active and with the same address on each for at least 30 days. SVO Owners may transfer to other SVO Owners even if not at the same address. Starwood Employees may not have any Starpoints transferred into their SPG account.
We have the same last name and address, so I am hoping to get them into her US account with the bonus. I would prefer not to have to wait a month though.
Instead, get mom an SPG account if she doesn't already have one. Wait 30 days, then transfer the points to her SPG account from yours (assuming she has the same address on this account as you do), then have her transfer the points over to AAdvantage from her own SPG account.
Best regards,
William R. Sanders
Online Guest Feedback Coordinator
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
DAMN, probably won't get the US bonus now.
T&C shows this
Both accounts must have been active and with the same address on each for at least 30 days. SVO Owners may transfer to other SVO Owners even if not at the same address. Starwood Employees may not have any Starpoints transferred into their SPG account.
Last edited by JapanFlyerT; Mar 11, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Mar 11, 2012, 8:19 pm
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Mar 12, 2012, 1:27 am
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This doesn't really make sense. Do they mean only one transaction within the promo period will yield the bonus? That would be a real mess with the likes of Wyndham, which will break up a larger transaction into individual chunks of whatever amount you transfer multiples of (7k, 12k). For instance, a transfer of 60k will post as 5 transactions of 12k. Will this yield only 18k * 1 + 12k *4?
