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Old Jun 5, 2012 | 1:28 am
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Originally Posted by lwildernorva
I'm sure I miss some sterling conversion opportunities, but I've found it a fairly safe general rule that the best use of almost any earned/bought mile/point is in the original program.
Absolutely agree. The only times I do hotel points -> airline miles conversion is when I have some orphan points laying in some program and if at the same time there is some meaningful conversion campaign - as I did with my orphan Hyatt points to BA Avios with the 25% bonus.
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