Transfer miles between members?
Aug 1, 2010 | 8:45 pm
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Note also that the Starwood Preferred Guest hotel program -- which allows pts->miles transfers to a wide variety of airline programs -- permits free transfer of SPG points between members of the same household. Thus, Husband's SPG points can readily be coverted to miles in Husband's or Wife's airline account.
Amex Membership Rewards is rumored not to pay much attention, when you convert points to ailrine miles, to whether the target account is in the same name as the Amex MR account. Haven't tried this myself, so cannot confirm.
Aug 2, 2010 | 4:36 am
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You can't transfer miles directly at no cost, but in every airline program I know of you can get an award in someone else's name even if you're not traveling together. That doesn't help with every possible amount one could transfer, but it's often useful for this purpose. If you want to "transfer" a lot of miles, it also gets around the annual limits on direct account-to-account transfers.
Aug 2, 2010 | 8:12 am
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