Originally Posted by
Firewind
I'm pretty sure that E-rewards are open enrollment, and thus they can be shot to a number of redemption targets.
I am sorry to inform you that you are wrong.
It's never open enrollment for e-Rewards. You need a sponsor invite to join e-Rewards. Go and check e-Rewards' website and I doubt you could find any proof of open enrollment. There used to be a link to request an invite though.
And e-Rewards started the practice of (airline) sponsor-restricted redemption maybe 4 or 5 years ago. Say if your sponsor is Delta, your airline redemption is locked in with Delta. This is the thread that discussed that change:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/s-p-m...ough-them.html (Dec 2007)
Meanwhile, some long-time e-Rewards members, say enrolled in 1990s, aren't affected by such change and still have a wide range of redemption options, airlines or otherwise.
Originally Posted by
Firewind
If I'm not mistaken, I think it's E-miles that resulted from a Hilton invitation.
Hilton is just one of the many partners for e-Miles. People sign up with e-Miles thru different partners. See this master thread for more discussion:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/s-p-m...er-thread.html