Thanks for posting this. Your post reminded me that I can convert my orphan SPG points to airline miles, in my case, to NW. I just got an e-mail from NW informing me that come October, I, as a status-less member having no WP credit card, will not be allowed to issues JAL award tickets using WP miles. With a couple thousand miles I transfer from SPG I hope to use up all my WP points and issue two JAL domestic tickets while I can. kojiro