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Old Aug 18, 2018 | 3:20 pm
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Originally Posted by UA-NYC
I spent most of my SPG points on Starwood hotels, but if I were to transfer 60K points to AA and end up with 75K miles, I can book a one way biz award ticket on CX that may run $4,000-5,000 (say NYC to HKG). There is just no way one is going to get $4K+ of value from 60K Starpoints.

So it's incorrect to make a blanket statement that "the best value of the SPG points are hotel redemption"
AA regularly sells 250,000 miles for $4,311.19. If you really think 75,000 miles are regularly worth $4,000 to $5,000, doesn’t it make senses to simply buy the miles from AA and use the credit card spending elsewhere?
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