FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Using AMEX points for MRs

Aug 25, 2015 | 8:36 am

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itsme

Join Date: Jun 2004

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Originally Posted by w0r1dtrave1er

I think you'll find most people would gladly buy your ticket for if you would transfer the equivalent AX MR at $0.01 to their FF account. Sadly Amex no longer allows it.

I know I'd buy you a $1000 ticket for 100,000 Amex points any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

This is why you're seeing these reactions in this thread. To most of us, using AX MR to purchase travel is, in fact, "wasting MR points"

It's been awhile since I used an AmEx card and had any MR, but I'm curious about this. What do people think is the highest and best use of MR - converting to airline miles; and then what value do they assign MR if monetized? How about SPG with the SPG AmEx card?

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