Chase would not agree to a "final" redemption for BA miles. However, they credited 2,500 bonus points for the inconvenience -and- they agreed that the Amazon points could be transferred to Ultimate Rewards (which can be redeemed for BA miles) if we open a Sapphire Preferred account.
Hmm thanks for the info. How did you you get this information? I called twice and sent a secure message and got nothing as helpful as this. The last rep did tell me to fax in a letter to their "correspondence center" which I did. I noticed 2500 extra points in my Amazon chase account yesterday, but haven't got a letter back from them with the explanation. It still seems like a ridiculous way to reward a loyal customer of the card for nearly 8 years...