With how aggressive the other hotels have been in matching status as well as giving out free nights, it is difficult to stay at Marriotts during the second quarter. This additional change will really make one have to reconsider what to do going forward after that. Earning Delta miles is a totally useless proposition. I have close to a 100k miles with Delta and never can book a ticket without paying extreme premium to book a simple route. Using Delta requires double over AA.

Since I really like Marriott points for conversion, I think I will not convert them to AA. Instead switch to Hilton on future stays where I can still earn some AA miles. With Marriott not allowing conversion to AA, the Hilton AXON travel packages is more attractive to me than the Marriott packages.