I went ahead and got and Amex Starwood account.

How long after statement do the accounts show on Starwood's SPG.COM?

And after that, How long (in reality - as I know they say up to 30 days) it takes Starwood to transfer these to Asiamiles?

I have about 9 K asiamiles and would like to have 40K for a "C" to "F" by November 5th (when I will fly HKG-LAX) I am flying west via Asiana.

I know Cathay lets you buy up to 30% - so I need 28,000 total or 19,000 additional. I already have earned the points needed in Starwood's Amex - but I doubt I can transfer on time.

I could go ahead and buy miles from gift miles, but at $0.0325 per miles it does not make sense - as I easily earn them for free via AMEX. I have tons of points in AMEX Rewards, American, United, Delta and Diners - but all have bad conversion ratios to Asia miles.

A cousin has plenty of Starwood point but they are not allowing us to transfer 20,000 to me (Any one know of an exemption to this rule or a better suggestion?)

I called Amex to transfer miles to my Asia Miles account on Saturday. The miles credited today (wednesday), that's two working days!! They say it will take a couple of weeks, but..... that might just be Japanese efficiency

My father did the transfer early this year and took 3 days only.

i suggest you check if the award is available before you rush to transfer miles

Yes. You may book the award upgrade first before you have enough miles in your account.

Regional asian transfers from Amex to Asiamiles take about less than a week. Starwood's AMex card, if USA, I have not idea how long that will take.

wait a minute, i had always thought you cant tranfer amex point to asia miles, can someone explain how you are doing this

As far as I know you cannot transfer AMEX USA Membership rewards to Asiamiles. These must be NON US AMEX cards

From Asiamiles website:

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=>If you live in the USA or Canada you can exchange reward programme currencies between Asia Miles and other loyalty programmes.

To do so, you need to be a Gold member of points.com which enables you to earn, buy and swap your miles or points with over 25 leading reward programmes.

=>The Points Exchange partner categories

1. Airline
2. Financial Institutions
3. Hotel
4. Retail
5. Online Portals for Gift Certificates, Travel and Shopping Malls
6. Petrol Station
7. Telecommunication and more ...

=>Terms and Conditions

1. The Points Exchange transaction will appear on your Asia Miles account within 48 hours of transaction completion.
2. All transactions are non-refundable, non-transferable and non-reversible.
3. points.com offers The Points Exchange feature to members in the USA and Canada only.
4. points.com terms and conditions apply.
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The OP is talking about the Starwood Amex card. These points get automatically placed into your SPG acct(at a 1:1 ratio), not Membership Rewards. From SPG, you can then transfer to Asiamiles. For Membership Rewards, you would first have to transfer your points to SPG(at a lousy 3:1 ratio), then to Asiamiles.

Starwood transfers to Asiamiles take about 24-28 days, EVERYTIME. Trust me, I know. Probably the longest of all the Starwood partners.

Mike

Any one know the conversion factor at POINTS.COM for AAdvantage or AMEX goint to Asia Miles? I have emailed this quesyion to them but they do not respond and I do not want to join their gold program if this does not work.

Thanks

I did my transfer to UA's MP from Amex and it look took 3 days as well ^