I transferred 250K of mine into TWA just before that window closed, and they of course merged into AA (which, now in retrospect, was a poor choice, given what milesaaver has just done to AA's Aadvantage award availability).

Now, I usually move 112,000 MR points at a time (I think think this is the right ratio or close to it) into SW Airlines in a single conversion, yielding a handful of SW awards with NO CAP CONTROL, BUT ALSO (and this is the main reason) that SW Companion Pass which is good for one year.

This is KEY because SW Airlines, unlike any other airline in the world that I know of, lets a COMPANION PASS awardee ALSO fly free on the primary person's free award itself. Yes, two can fly on a single ff award w/ SW Airlines if the companion pass is used in conjunction. Very powerful leverage, especially for the leisure traveler where time and 2-3-4 stopovers to get from point a to point c is not a problem.

If you can use LUV, then for definitely under 125K worth of MR points (SW uses a funky conversion scheme so my math may be slightly off), you get a handlful of passes and a way to get at least one more person on every flight. For leisure travel, I can think of no better leverage than using AMEX MR points, essentially now worthless at least for air travel due to lack of decent partners (and the ones remaining, US Air and Delta, we mostly agree, are pathetic in terms of offering award seats, with US Air adding the further sting of a SAT stayover), to convert to LUV, especially if you can move enought to also get your SW Companion Pass.

FWIW, I now also do not accumulate MR points, long ago have deemed to them to be poor currency. I would urge you to consider switching to the AMEX/starwood OPTIMA, which is an AMEX on its face, but is really more a credit card versus a charge card, per se. BUT, the starpoint is much more flexible as a currency than is a MR point. Could spend 30min on this point, but won't bore you further.


If you're indirectly asking if MR points can be migrated into AA miles...would advise against. Would be a vicious dilution to get them there. One quick way would be:

MR to spg starpoints, and then back to AA.