Originally Posted by
Jasper2009
Iīm no expert on the Ultimate Rewards program, but unless something has changed you can already redeem UR points for Fairmont Ovation certs. At least when they ran the 100k points sign-up bonus that was one of the better redemption options (along with Fairmont and Hyatt GCs).
The same is true for many countriesī AMEX MR program and many mileage program, however itīs rarely a good deal with those programs IMO.
You can always use Chase's travel booking engine to book flights and hotels and pay with points - and you can presently buy Fairmont gift cards in a similar manner as well. I haven't seen anything about buying ovation certs (though I'm not saying it isn't there somewhere).
My real question is if they would find a way to incorporate it more succinctly - in the way Chase currently allows 1:1 points transfer to a number of partners (united, hyatt, etc). All of their credit card partners (to my knowledge) allow this transfer. Korean air is the only transfer partner that they allow direct transfer to who they are not the affinity card provider for.
I'm not familiar with Fairmont at all - but since they don't have a "points" program per se in the way that other airline and hotel programs do, I am curious if they would find a way to streamline this into UR as a "transfer" partner of sorts.