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Most efficient transfer OUT of AA
Hello! What rewards programs of any variety (airline, hotel, anything) will give me the best value to transfer my 50,000 AA miles to?
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Originally Posted by lmsmedley
(Post 32398595)
Hello! What rewards programs of any variety (airline, hotel, anything) will give me the best value to transfer my 50,000 AA miles to?
You don't have to use the miles to fly AA. You can use them on OneWorld or other partners. like Alaska Airlines. You can use them to book hotel or car rentals, although those rates are not very good compared with using them for air tickets. |
There's no meaningful value to be had in transferring your miles out of AA for anything.
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This is not just AA.
FWIW - once the reward has been made available in the program account, the only practical way is to spend it. Even transfer might be available, it will cost you a lot making the transfer moot. |
You can check the website points.com. It's legit and provides transfers. When it performs a transfer, it's via transfers authorized by the subject programs (sometimes more than one).
However, when available, transfers are almost always at unfavorable ratios. I think I remember once seeing a transfer at an 85% ratio (i.e. 15% haircut). Some have much larger reductions. My sense is that transfers from hotel programs to airline programs tend to be the best. Starwood used to have a ratio of 1:1 or sometimes even 1:1.25 for conversion to airlines points. That's gone now of course since there is no more Starwood. Sidebar: I once used the site because Air Canada had a promotion where you got a certain number of points toward a promotion for each "activity." An activity included a transfer into Air Canada of any number of points. The ratio of USAir (it was about 8 years ago) to Air Canada was something like 3:1 or 5:1, but by converting 50 US points to 10 AC points in 10 transactions I was able to get 10 "activities" and ended up with a very nice bonus from the promotion. |
Originally Posted by redtop43
(Post 32400540)
You can check the website points.com. It's legit and provides transfers. When it performs a transfer, it's via transfers authorized by the subject programs (sometimes more than one).
However, when available, transfers are almost always at unfavorable ratios. I think I remember once seeing a transfer at an 85% ratio (i.e. 15% haircut). Some have much larger reductions. My sense is that transfers from hotel programs to airline programs tend to be the best. Starwood used to have a ratio of 1:1 or sometimes even 1:1.25 for conversion to airlines points. That's gone now of course since there is no more Starwood. Sidebar: I once used the site because Air Canada had a promotion where you got a certain number of points toward a promotion for each "activity." An activity included a transfer into Air Canada of any number of points. The ratio of USAir (it was about 8 years ago) to Air Canada was something like 3:1 or 5:1, but by converting 50 US points to 10 AC points in 10 transactions I was able to get 10 "activities" and ended up with a very nice bonus from the promotion. In fact, I see only 9 exchange partners on points.com, and AA isn't one of them. Hilton lets you transfer from only Virgin Atlantic, Hawaiian, and AMTRAK I do not see a way to transfer AA miles to any travel partner right now, is this even possible now? |
If there was a transfer out partner the ratio would be terrible. You can always donate https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-ser...ght/donate.jsp
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