<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by volrichard:
looks as if you could also go from MR to Best Western Gold Crown Club, then convert to Alaska Air Miles. According to the BW website, 500 GC points gets you 1000 Alaska Air miles.
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But since it takes 8 AMEX points to get 1 BW point, it would take 4,000 AMEX points to get 1,000 Alaska Air miles using BW. Not a very good conversion ratio.