GuyverII

14 days and two hours, and my SPG transfer still hasn't hit my Asiana account. Anyone else have experience transferring SPG points? How long has it taken?

All my transfers to other carriers have taken a max of five days.

THD

It has taken between 3 days and 3 weeks for me to transfer SPG to OZ.

GuyverII

Mercy. That's downright terrible. Thanks for the reply THD!

zippy the pinhead

The name on my SPG account doesn't include my middle name, whereas my Asiana account does, but in a sort of oddball way, since their software pushes the first and middle names together, e.g.,

SPG: John Public
Asiana: Public, JohnQuentin

An SPG rep told me that the names had to match exactly, but in my experience the transfers still go through. They just take a long time. My experience is entirely consistent with THD's experience; I'm guessing they do the transfers twice each month, with a cutoff date. In other words, they bundle all the pending transfers and send the miles on the 15th and the last day of the month, and they post sometime after midnight in Korea on the same or next day. But you have to request the transfer prior to the transfer date or you miss getting into the bundle, etc.

Supersonic Swinger

My experience as well, and took over two weeks before mine came through. Thankfully they held the booking I was using them for, but you wouldn't want to rely on them for any last minute bookings.

gq_dq

I have had the exact same issues with Alaska in my other thread -- except that with AS it could be a month!

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/starw...ska-miles.html

So you're lucky if it makes it in within 2 weeks. Also the name issue.

zippy the pinhead

I suspect that the number of transfers from SPG to a given airline in a two- or four-week period is probably small enough to fit on an Excel spreadsheet. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was sent as an attachment to an email, and each transfer was either manually entered into a computer system, or they had some script that would scrub the FFP numbers, names, etc., from the spreadsheet and import them into their system. Not all are like this; for example, transfers from Chase UR to airlines are realtime and immediate, in my experience.

GuyverII

That would be my guess as well. I can't help but be disappointed that this has taken so long.

GuyverII

3 weeks to the minute for those SPG miles to hit. I learned my lesson on this one!

mjstallion

I transferred points on consecutive days in May from SPG to Asiana, and the first set of points arrived two weeks ago but the second has yet to arrive (it's been almost a month since the second transfer).

How long does it generally take? Does Asiana only post SPG points once per month?

THD

The time to post varies, see following threads.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/asian...ng-asiana.html

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/asian...31-spg-oz.html

Given that it has progressed a month, maybe it would be a good idea to ask SPG about the post which has not occurred.

DownUnderFlyer

[mod hat] Merging this thread with the existing one. [/mod hat]

mjstallion

Has anyone experienced it taking more than three weeks?

THD

I transferred SPG points approx a week ago, and they are now in my OZ account as of today. So if ohter member's guesses are right that OZ process SPG transfers at particular dates each month, then your transfer should have already been processed.

FlyingXplorer

I made a transfer on February 15. Miles showed up on February 16.

I made a transfer on February 20. Miles haven't shown up as of March 1.