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Aug 20, 2011 | 3:16 am

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bertheike

Join Date: Sep 2002

Location: Germany / Thailand

Programs: M&M/S SPG livetime gold, but not running behind status & points anymore! Now only book value for $

Posts: 3,103

Thanks for your quotation.
Most travel is UK-MIA/TPA/PLS ( would be on BA solely )
And UK-HKG, which could be on BA/CX or QF.
Now I cover this by BMI and China with the USair miles on LH first.
So I want to transfer the AMEX points to a oneworld, to choose from them, even thought availability is more worse.
The best would be AA, but IDC issued in UK has no option to transfer to AA.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pogonation

Don't transfer to IB! You will get the least value for your miles.

Comparisons:

BA:

Europe - USA
C = 100k
F = 150k

Europe - China/HKG
C = 160k
F = 240k

CX

CX is done by mileage so here are some examples (red = 1 carrier. blue = 2 or more carriers):

LHR-JFK:
C = 80k
F = 120k
C = 80k
F = 105k

LHR-ORD:
C = 80k
F = 120k
C= 85k
F= 115k

LHR-LAX:
C = 120k
F = 180k
C = 115k
F = 155k

For rewards to China/HKG:

LHR-HKG/China
C = 120k
F = 180k
C = 115k
F = 155k

MH

Since it is not part of *A yet we can't really speculate how good the burning will be. But you may be able to take guesses based upon their own mileage system:

Europe - KUL - HKG/China
C = 102k

To me it looks as though CX is your best choice!

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