This is a complete grunch as I haven't read much in this thread at all. My business partner and I live in Reno, NV and don't have much use for Air Canada. He has accumulated over 1M Bank of America World points however and it seems they may be transferable on a 1:1 basis to Aeroplan miles.

If this is true, and we can successfully get a bunch of miles in an aeroplan account, are we able to redeem these for use on United and other Star Alliance members? Are we able to transfer the miles to any US based FF program?

Thanks!

Steve

A little digging shows that the "visa extra points" that he's accumulated can be redeemed at 460,000 points for a "RT First class ticket." Details are sketchy...

Yes - worldpoints can be transferred 1:1 to aeroplan. The way to do this is very obscure on their website. If you call them, chances are the CS rep would not know anything about it and they will tell you this is not possible - don't believe them.

Yes once you turn them into AP points, you can use them on *A reward flights - including business and first class rewards. Those tend to give you the best value for your points. I don't know much about whether you can convert AP points into U.S. based programs such as UA's MP.

Step 1: create an AP account to receive the points. (maybe wait for a day or two to make sure this is completely propagated throughout AP's system. Don't overestimate AP's IT ability to do anything real time).

Step 2: start a web browser, and remove all cookies on that browser (this step can be important if you ever used your browser to access a worldpoint account - there seems to be cookie issues when going through the next few steps)

Step 2. on BOA site, go to the reward home.

Step 3: in the reward home. Go to travel reward - this step is very important because that's the step on BOA's website to properly set the authentication cookies onto Worldpoints website (I'm talking about web app jargon here - the website actually is passing credentials across different domains using an SSO technique). You won't see anything about AP points transfer in this travel reward section, BTW, and the travel reward will pops up a new browser window/tab

Step 4: go back to the original BOA reward home, click "Cash" reward.

Step 5: in that cash reward page, click "reward home" upper right hand corner.

Step 6: in the new "reward home" you will see a link that says "Travel". It's actually a different place from the travel thing you see in step 3 - yes this is confusing. Go there, and you will see a "partner reward option" at the lower right hand corner. One of them is Aeroplan.

Step 7: go into the aeroplan partner reward option, and click "redeem". You can redeem points 1:1 into AP in 1000 point increments.

Thanks.

1000 pt increments? Is there a maximum per day or other time period?

I'm not aware of any maximum - there could be one that I haven't encountered. The most I've done was 19000 points in a single day.

I do however recommend that you don't do too big of a transfer in a single transaction. A few days ago there was a malfunction on Worldpoint's website which resulted in points deducted from Worldpoint balance while giving out an obscure error on the website (and no points deposited to AP). It took people several phone calls and a few days for Worldpoint to get that corrected (and points eventually deposited into AP).

When it works correctly, the points are transferred into AP instantaneously. You can log into to AP immediately after the transfer and see those points there.

Is this still possible?

My partner hasn't done anything with his points and now has over 3M.

The website he logs into is now called "visa rewards" i dont know if this is the same as "world points"

any help would be appreciated.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-c...ht=worldpoints