Delta to Hilton
 

For anyone as uninformed as I, you call Delta, not Hilton to make point exchanges of Delta miles to Hilton. You can only excange in 5,000 point increments. You get 2-4-1. Delta sends you a certificate and then you send that to Hilton.

Hilton phone wait, 16 minutes, but the estimate was 13, so not so bad given I new what I was in for. Wait at Delta, less that 60 seconds. Both people were polite, professional and helpful.

DL miles to HHonors xchange Question
 

Does anyone know if I can exchange DL miles from my account to another persons HHonors account? It appears that the DL to HH exchange is done by issuance of a certificate. So, is there a name on it? Or can you designate the name of the recipient into whose account you want to transfer miles? What about other airline to HHonors exchanges for different peoples' accounts?

I think it is possible. A long time ago my parents transferred miles to their HH program and their miles in two different Delta accounts went to one Hilton account. This was a long time ago though (I think at the time Delta needed 40K miles for a domestic RT).

PG - Married couples can have a single Hhonors account that they can both contribute to (by reward exchange, earning points at Hiltons and for earning elite status). Given that, the case you cite may be different from what myleguy wants to do. Unfortunately, it is a while since I have transferred DL points to HH myself, so I don't remember if the certs have a name on them.

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I transferred some DL miles to HHonors points a few months ago. The member's name is shown on the award certificate. In addition, the certificate is non-transferable.

Thanks UpInTheAir. Sounds like it won't work. I may keep working on this and will post if I can figure out a way to do it.

In the case of my parents, they have separate HH accounts which are not tied together. I think what happened was that they mailed their certificates together with their respective HH account numbers, but HH simply deposited the two points in one account.

Is there a way to ask Delta to issue the certificate in someone else's name?

Delta Miles --> HH
 

I recently transferred miles from a Delta account that I never use to Honors. I received the certificate and mailed it to Honors about three weeks ago. The points have yet to post -- should I be concerned yet?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

smk219 -- I wouldn't worry too much yet. My recent DL --> HH transfer took about 5 weeks since I've mailed the cert to HHonors. They used to process those transfers much faster though (took about 2 weeks about a year and a half ago).

If you need those points for an award, you should call HHonors CS and explain the situation. More than likely they would issue an award for you while waiting for that transfer to get credited to your account.

smk219:
You should have no problem if you are trying to get an award issued. I have some CO miles that are being transferred over, and they issued the award to me after I told them that the miles from CO were on the way. I don't know if/how they verify that the miles are on the way there, but CO takes about 60 days for their "electronic" transfer. UA only took me 8 days! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
Used the miles to get a TEEN award for 6 free nights at Tapatio Cliffs in Phoenix.

Transferring Skymiles to HHonors points
 

Is it possible to exchange Delta Skymiles for Hilton Honors points? If so, what do I need to do?

Sorry, duplicate posting.

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cheerladie, here's a link to the Hilton HHonors web site that explains how to do it. http://www.hilton.com/hhonors/rewards/exchange_1.html

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Sorry, duplicate posting

[This message has been edited by BL1KITW (edited 04-27-2001).]

cheerladie -- For more information see this thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum57/HTML/001442.html

And welcome to the Board!