Can you get Platinum solely with an Amex pts transfer?
Apr 16, 2004, 8:42 am
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Can you get Platinum solely with an Amex pts transfer?
Having just transferred a small number of Amex MR points to Priority Club, the website has reduced the 'points required for platinum' total displayed on screen.
What I'd like to know is - if I transfer enough Amex MR points across to PC to hit the 60,000 target, will I get upgraded to platinum?
I usually put my MR points to Starwood and then to British Airways, but I would be willing to forgo the SPG 25% mileage bonus and transfer them to BA via PC if it meant I could get PC Platinum on the way. This would allow me to increase my future PC earnings through the 50% base points bonus and benefit from room upgrades.
What I'd like to know is - if I transfer enough Amex MR points across to PC to hit the 60,000 target, will I get upgraded to platinum?
I usually put my MR points to Starwood and then to British Airways, but I would be willing to forgo the SPG 25% mileage bonus and transfer them to BA via PC if it meant I could get PC Platinum on the way. This would allow me to increase my future PC earnings through the 50% base points bonus and benefit from room upgrades.
Last edited by RJB; Apr 16, 2004 at 10:32 am
Apr 16, 2004, 5:26 pm
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RJB....the yearly quota amount to get or maintain plat. is 60K points annually. The 60K does NOT need to come from hotel stay strickly. IE transferring your Amex points over to PC will get you closer to Plat status and the 50% bonus. I get about 30-40K yearly from PC partners, Office Max, PC Visa & a few others!
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Apr 17, 2004, 9:35 am
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For US AMEX-card holders: 1.000 MR points = 1.000 PC points.
Apr 17, 2004, 2:03 pm
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Originally Posted by Patron
For US AMEX-card holders: 1.000 MR points = 1.000 PC points.
Consider this.....
1 Amex Rewards Point is worth 1 FF Mile in most to all airlines. 4 PC points are needed to make 1 FF mile. So I think this might be a bum deal. If you have 1,000 Amex Reward Points & transfer to say Delta, you get 1,000 Delta Skymiles, which has a par vaule.
I did some general calculations & made a post about it, take a look at how I
valued it all out,
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=133107
Ric
Apr 18, 2004, 7:37 am
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This makes it very attractive and easy for USA-based PC members to achieve Plat status. In the rest of the world, we must do it the old fashioned way: staying at PC participating hotels. We don't have the PCVisa card, nor any of the corporate tie-ins, let alone the Amex MR transfer ability.
Apr 18, 2004, 7:49 am
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Apr 18, 2004, 9:17 am
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Originally Posted by Gustaf
1:1 in the US then... same in Europe?
Apr 18, 2004, 9:18 am
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In the UK, 1 MR point = 2 PC points. You also cannot transfer MR points directly to British Airways, so you have to take a circuitous route such as SPG or PC.
Apr 18, 2004, 9:42 am
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Originally Posted by Patron
For Swedish AMEX Card Holders: 6 MR points = 1 PC point
Not a great value for us here in Sweden then
Apr 20, 2004, 4:03 pm
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Originally Posted by RJB
Having just transferred a small number of Amex MR points to Priority Club, the website has reduced the 'points required for platinum' total displayed on screen.
What I'd like to know is - if I transfer enough Amex MR points across to PC to hit the 60,000 target, will I get upgraded to platinum?
I usually put my MR points to Starwood and then to British Airways, but I would be willing to forgo the SPG 25% mileage bonus and transfer them to BA via PC if it meant I could get PC Platinum on the way. This would allow me to increase my future PC earnings through the 50% base points bonus and benefit from room upgrades.
What I'd like to know is - if I transfer enough Amex MR points across to PC to hit the 60,000 target, will I get upgraded to platinum?
I usually put my MR points to Starwood and then to British Airways, but I would be willing to forgo the SPG 25% mileage bonus and transfer them to BA via PC if it meant I could get PC Platinum on the way. This would allow me to increase my future PC earnings through the 50% base points bonus and benefit from room upgrades.