MR reverse transfers?
 

Does anyone know if you can transfer MR points to a specific airline like BA and get the 35% bonus and then after a month or so transfer them back to MR points when it is a straight 1:1 conversion? So that the higher number of points could be used to move them to another airline of choice.

MR points transfers
 

pretty sure you can't do that.

No, you can't transfer out of most airline FF programs. And I don't think there is any way to transfer anything to Amex MR's.

Lol. What if....

As others have said, this isn't possible. Amex specifically states that transfers out of MR are not reversible.

Indeed, leaving MR is a one-way street. You can go into one program and then from there to another program (ex. MR-Virgin Atlantic-Hilton), but not back to MR.

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FWIW, Amex does reverse transfers if in error, or something erroneous like that. I had an instance back when CO was a partner where I hit transfer but then got an error page, and I foolishly went back and did it again and got an error again, and then I did it again, but with the same error result. Fast forward to me checking the CO account only to see 135K points being transferred in 3 times! In hindsight I should have waited and checked the CO account first, but oh well.

Luckily I screenshotted the errors and got on the phone with MR immediately and they said they'd investigate. Shortly thereafter the points were reversed into my MR account.

They will/may reverse a transfer in it's entirety if there is an error, however it's not like you can transfer 100k points to BA, get 135k due to the bonus and then put 100k back so that you stay with 35k Avios and can use the 100k for something else. Ain't gonna happen! Amex would have to be stupid to allow something like this...:rolleyes: