I'm not sure which one of your writers recommended using a hotel program in lieu of airlines a few months ago, but we stopped using our United Visa, and started using our Starwood American Express card whenever possible. --racked up quite a few points since then. The article said that we'd get 5000 extra points when we converted 20,000 points to airline miles.

Now, I go on Starwood's website and find out that it takes 2 Starwood points to equal 1 Mileage Plus point. ?????
Seems I'm further behind than I would have been had I stayed with United's Visa.

Any ideas?