<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by HChrist:
Hi all. I have 40k AA and 40k MR points. Would like to turn these points into an int'l FF award, probably US-Asia, which will run at least 60k miles. Since AA now allows miles transfer (I think?), is it possible for me to dump my MR points into someone else's FF account and for them to give me their AA points in return? Or vice-versa? Basically, I just want the FF award, and 40k miles doesn't get me far enough. Any ideas?? Thanks much in advance.</font>
It isn't easy to get your AA miles into another account. They
charge for the transfer you're describing. Personally, I wouldn't do it.
You could
turn 40,000 AA points into 40,000 HHonors points and then turn those HHonors points
into 7,000 miles with another carrier. Pretty much a losing transaction.
And, of course, you can't turn Membership Rewards points into AA miles directly.
You could turn 40,000 MR points into 13,333 Starwood points (sorry, but you missed the 9/30 deadline for 1:2 conversion). Then you could turn those Starwood points into AA miles.
You
could transfer 40,000 MR points into 40,000 Delta miles. Then you could turn those 40,000 Delta miles into 80,000 HHonors points. Then those 80,000 HHonors points could be turned into 18,000 AA miles. Again, not a good exchange rate. However, you would only be 2,000 AA miles shy of the award you seek.
Then, with a few
surveys you'd be almost there.
You can also get bonus miles for signing up for an AA Mastercard or for the right phone service...
Another possibility is to sign up for several free hotel credit cards that have bonuses -- see
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/007672.html and other threads.
You should be able to get 10000 Marriott points, 10000 Priority Club points, 17500 Hilton points, 4000 Starwood points, and 5000 Goldpoints. Convert all those into miles and you have over 10000 AA miles.
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