Originally Posted by ma91pmh

he did them airline by airline. here is one for american airlines. it shows the amount of points you would get for different spend levels within different programs. it did not take into account promos, status bonuses, additional credit card linked spend etc

so taking me as an example, i have an annual spend around $10k. at starwood that would generate a base of 20k points, which would generate 25k miles. at hyatt same spend generates 50k points = 25k miles. more ammo to my equal value argument (actually more to support hyatt being worth more as 50k hyatt buys more hotel stay than 20k spg but the same airline miles). my best options if i wanted miles would be wyndham, club carlson or hilton. however for me i tend to use hotel points for hotel stays (i used to be a mileage convertor until i started finding ways of extracting better value through hotels)

http://boardingarea.com/blogs/loyalt...otel-programs/