Help! I'm new to this!
Apr 6, 2010 | 1:27 pm
#16
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: St. Louis, Kansas City
Posts: 7
Good for you for getting started so young!
I guess I have a different perspective on sticking with one airline than an earlier post. I think there's a lot of benefit to moving up the ranks of the loyalty program, but it's important to pick an airline based on its routes in terms of your location and desired destinations, as well as the strength of its airline alliance.
Happy to share my tipsheet on getting started. You can find it at http://www.scribd.com/doc/17745143/F...Flier-Tipsheet.
If you have any questions, be in touch. Good luck!
I guess I have a different perspective on sticking with one airline than an earlier post. I think there's a lot of benefit to moving up the ranks of the loyalty program, but it's important to pick an airline based on its routes in terms of your location and desired destinations, as well as the strength of its airline alliance.
Happy to share my tipsheet on getting started. You can find it at http://www.scribd.com/doc/17745143/F...Flier-Tipsheet.
If you have any questions, be in touch. Good luck!
Thanks!
-BW
Apr 11, 2010 | 6:44 pm
#17
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: MA
Programs: AA Lifetime Platinum, SPG Gold
Posts: 174
Sorry for the delay in responding to you (post #15). The answer is yes. And, in fact, you receive a premium for most transfers. I use American only, but here's how it works: You use your SPG Amex whenever possible and receive 1 SPG point for each dollar spent. When you reach 20,000 points, you can transfer the points to your AAdvantage account and receive a bonus of 5,000 miles, for a total of 25,000 miles. If you'd used your Citibank AAdvantage MasterCard, you would have received 1 mile for every dollar spent (unless, of course, there's some special promotion.
You can visit www.spg.com and see the conversion ratio of points to miles for all participating airline programs.
You can visit www.spg.com and see the conversion ratio of points to miles for all participating airline programs.
Last edited by MilesMark; Apr 11, 2010 at 6:47 pm Reason: Clarification
Apr 13, 2010 | 2:38 am
#18
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: India
Programs: DL Diamond, Bonvoy Lifetime Titanium, ALL Platinum, IHG Platinum
Posts: 30,691
Happy to share my tipsheet on getting started. You can find it at http://www.scribd.com/doc/17745143/F...Flier-Tipsheet.
Apr 13, 2010 | 7:15 am
#19
Join Date: Apr 2010
Programs: SPG Gold
Posts: 142
What a generous and excellent primer for beginners! ^
Happy to share my tipsheet on getting started. You can find it at http://www.scribd.com/doc/17745143/F...Flier-Tipsheet.
If you have any questions, be in touch. Good luck!
If you have any questions, be in touch. Good luck!
Apr 13, 2010 | 2:35 pm
#20
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: S Cal
Programs: AA Lifetime Plat, United Silver, Marriott Plat, IHG Plat
Posts: 1,142
Yes. You need to check how transfer works to your preferred airline program, since the transfer ratio differs. For example, 20,000 SPG points transfers to 25,000 American Airlines miles. But I don't think the transfer ratio is nearly so favorable with Continental.