Originally Posted by
jmsnyc
Thanks. I like the Alaska idea. Now that opens up a whole bunch of new questions... I wish I was able to transfer miles because I have random miles on AA & Delta that are not enough for a flight but if I could put them all in Alaska that would be cool.
Sign up for the Am Ex SPG card, points transfer 1:1 to both AA and Delta, bonus is 25,000 points.
SWA Chase card offer is 50,000 points.
Depending on how many points you currently have those two cards might be enough to get four domestic round trip awards with just the sign up bonus, three at least I think.
At four flights a year it would take you at least two, maybe three, years to collect enough points for one round trip award by flying. If you pay $30 extra on half the flights in order to collect points all in one program you wipe out the value of that award ticket.