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Jun 22, 2010, 3:04 pm

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josephstern

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Originally Posted by kinglobjaw

Just to be safe- to get the 35% bonus, do I transfer 20,000 SPG points since in the end, 25,000 AA miles will post prior to AA35% bonus, or should I transfer 20,001 SPG points since the AA bonus will look at the actual 20,001 miles transferred to AA before the 5,000 miles bonus from SPG?

-Kinglobjaw

People have reported that the 20K transfer does the trick. I think the key is that AA sees the 25K, and that's all that matters.