Thanks all for your input. I've been debating the merits of this for a while. I DO have about 20,000 MR miles (and that's going to be it as I switch over to using AMEX Starpoints exclusively).

I could use those MR miles to transfer into US or CO, and that would give me just about enough to be a free ticket. However, I have been convinced by the experts on this board that using miles for a domestic ticket is not getting the most for them. So I'm leaning toward transferring to DL where I already have significant miles and would be able to get an international award.

And I don't have a Diners Card, but I once did and they won't give me another sign-on bonus

I have no AA miles (I would have orphan miles on AA, but they expired and they said I could never, never, ever, get them back --one wonders why they still keep this information on the website).

I'll probaly do this, use the US and TW miles for magazines, use the CO miles for HHonors points. Save the UA miles and then convert them to HHonors points (or even a Eurostar ticket) if that becomes necessary.

I did a little reasearch on the HHonors points and while I AM getting ripped off, I can minimize thie by using point strectcher.

I think hotel rooms at a good hotel like Hilton are almost more valuable than airline miles because I can almost always find a good sale fare. But it is hard getting an "upscale" hotel chain to budge off their usually high rates.

Mac

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