jungly

To Summarize:
Most of us keep the following cards in our wallet: Chase Reserve + Amex Platinum as our keeper. Disposable cards throughout the year tend to be "Chase Marriot, Freedom, Freedom Unlimited, Amex SPG, Barclay Aviator etc" - you transfer all your UR points to your reserve card and close the others (that have a yearly fee), as for SPG, marriot, and others you have to use their freebee perks that year or carry forward and pay the annual fee.

All year round I stay with Hilton Hotels (Diamond status via CC), Avis (transfer to AA, not car points, Avis sucks for loyalty will be ditching them next year), and AA ( may be close to Executive Platinum).

So what's the end game? Since AA has no partner with Amex nor UR points, I'm out of luck. But I just want to take the family to a vacation overseas, so my allegiance to AA is null if my purpose is to get the best bang for the buck via credit card points.

Finally what I've learnt here:
UR Points: For Hyatt hotel
UR points: Delta (never flown with them, but then again there's no AA with chase so I'm stuck with Delta to get overseas)
Amex Plat: Again no AA. Anyone know which airline Amex gives highest transfer partner to overseas?

Moral of the story: Looks like I'll stick with UR due to peace of mind, even though Amex MR have higher rates per cent. Reason being: when the time comes to book flights more people like TPG are biased to Chase so its easier to research deals. For example: I learnt in this thread to book with Hyatt and Delta using if I ever decide to redeem my UR points. As for Amex Plat - that's still up in the air on what to do with all those points.

Question: Since AA is being stingent on acquiring partnerships with Chase/Amex - would you recommend I change to Delta next year and demand elite status match? If that were to happen, then yes I'd be biased to Delta and only accumulate Chase UR points because I could get free delta upgrade seats. Assuming Delta has the same policy of AA, where all Exec Plat AA members get complimentary upgrades on any flight including overseas.