Originally Posted by
Mauibaby2008
Generally it works the other way around hotel points > airline miles. I wonder why it is like that? Any insight to that would be cool
I think it's a side effect of earning. You can earn airline miles (as an alternative to earning hotel points) in most hotel programs, on a per-stay basis. It's then easy for the hotel program to add a related feature which lets you transfer points earned on stays to those same airline miles.
On the other hand, no airline I've ever heard of awards hotel points as an alternative to awarding airline miles. And so they don't even typically have the infrastructure for transferring out that hotels have to have (because of partner earnings on stays). So for those few airlines that support transfers of miles to a very few hotel programs, those airlines have to set up a special procedure / interface which is used for those transfers and for nothing else.
AA used to have transfers to a couple hotel programs, the last of them being Hilton HHonors, through a special website, then that was finally taken away a few years ago. Now AA itself doesn't transfer to any partner any more that I know of, except whatever you can do through points.com perhaps.
But WyndhamRewards
doesn't participate in points.com.