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Originally Posted by tbonekel
I now have several of the good deal cards (Chase Sapphire X2, Chase Freedom) and I was looking around the rewards site for travel options. we are wanting to plan a trip to Disney next summer. Here is my question. I noticed that I can purchase travel on American with my points or I can transfer my points to Continental. Is there an advantage to transferring to Continental over just flying American? We will fly out of DFW and I think that if I fly Continental we will have to stop in Houston (not sure). I'm still learning a lot about all this cc stuff and I just not getting it yet. I have about 75,000 combined chase points right now and working on my next 50,000. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
A lot depends on how much cash airfares are going for on the dates you travel, versus what kind of availability there is for frequent-flyer awards. Points earned with the Chase Sapphire card can be transferred to the British Airways Executive Club program, and BAEC miles can be redeemed for travel on AA. In fact, BA permits free, en-route stopovers on awards, so (currently) for the same number of miles as your MCO-DFW return flight would cost, you could redeem for MCO-DFW (lengthy stopover) - LAX/LAS/SFO, etc. (Note, however, that major changes to the BAEC program are expected in mid-November, 2011, so if you cannot book your trip before then, you would need to carefully examine the revised program to determine whether it offers good value for your particular trip.)