Hello fellow FT's! Semi-new lurker, first time poster.

I have a question that has been bugging me, and I've been trying to find an answer .. or at least an answer favorable for me.

First for a mini-background:

My main cc the past 9 yrs has been Southwest's, where I was earning an average of 30 free flights/year (2-3/month). My workload and family responsibilities do not allow me to travel as often as I like, so I give them away to friends and family, and even sold a few to them for 50% of what they would have paid (a win-win, I say)

Naturally I've become the favorite "Cous" in the family

Now that Southwest's program changed in March, I googled around to see what programs were out there, and somehow found FT. I've been addicted to this site ever since. I must say I sincerely appreciate all the advice, wisdom, expertise, and humor from everyone here, so THANK YOU! I hope to someday reciprocate to all you as well!

So far, I have applied and received the Cap1 Venture card for both personal & biz, and have applied today for the SPG AMEX biz card. I'm hoping to stagger it over a few months and add both my parents, and brother for both personal and biz, to get the 25k bonus for each of the cards, and get a combination of 200k (if it is do-able).

For now, I've been eager to maximize my points and was thinking that my biggest biz expense is wiring about $1.75 million/yr to China for the products they manufacture for us.

Our bank does not charge us any wiring fees, which is a big 'plus'. I've asked my supplier if they accept cc pmts, and they said they do not.

I checked, and going thru paypal would be expensive. I called Citibank last week (have AA MC thru them since 1995) to ask if it would work if I prepaid them XX amount of $$ in advance to avoid any cash advance fees and use one of the checks they send with the statement to make deposit back into my biz account (thinking this way it would go thru the credit card), and proceed with the wire as usual. I was told no, since points aren't given on those checks - darn!

Soooo ... my question is ... IS there a way for me to get points on my credit card by sending a wire pmt? If there were a flat fee of say $200/month +/-, I'll surely do it, as I think the benefits certainly outweight the fees.

It sure would be nice to get those points!

note: I wire 2-3x/month

Many thanks in advance for everyone's advice!