Hi Amex MR Gurus,

Looking for advice on the best use of close to 240,000 MR points (in my wife and my accounts).

I have seen the various options for transferring points to airlines and hotels through Amex MR but not overly attracted to any of them.

The main reason being we have a large number of UA miles that can be used on *A carriers and BA, one of the transfer partners not *A which interests me, to my understanding can charge high fuel surcharges on many routes. Asia miles is also somewhat appealing, but I think it is a ratio of 1.0:0.75 so not great.

I have been debating transferring all the MR points to SPG points, then to AA with the 25% bonus they have in place to transfer from SPG to an airline. I believe the MR to SPG ratio is 2:1 so we would lose a decent number of points, but would then grab some back with the transfer to AA.

I have close to 220,000 AA miles and these seem to be some of the best currency for use on OneWorld partners so the idea of building this balance (despite the transfer loss) is appealing to me at the moment.

Is this a crazy waste of points to do this? Any inputs appreciated

Steve