Current highest hotel points to airline miles promos?
Aug 4, 2005 | 2:05 pm
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Probabaly Delta promos ahead.
Since Delta is now offering a 35% bonus for converting American Express Membership Rewards points to Delta Airlines miles, I suspect that airline might add similar promos for hotel points. The seem to understand that selling miles to points programs is so profitable that they can offer a bonus to get more business.
Aug 6, 2005 | 9:20 pm
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Originally Posted by pgary
Since Delta is now offering a 35% bonus for converting American Express Membership Rewards points to Delta Airlines miles, I suspect that airline might add similar promos for hotel points. The seem to understand that selling miles to points programs is so profitable that they can offer a bonus to get more business.
Aug 8, 2005 | 1:08 pm
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Originally Posted by patrickATX
I doubt that we will see too many more specials for other programs with Delta. I think that this one is more based on the hundreds of millions of dollars of frequent flyer miles that Amex purchased to help Delta stay afloat. Now Amex needs to burn some of them up.
Aug 9, 2005 | 8:14 am
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This is a bit off-topic, but Diners Club offered 30% bonuses for US and UA (expired, I think, but I'm not sure), and it offers a 50% BA bonus each summer. I believe that Amex is offering a 25% bonus for CO, and does from time to time. Several months ago, DL offered a 25% bonus from all of its hotel programs, including Starwood (i.e., 25% + 25%). Starwood recently offered a transfer bonus from Amex (1 for 2 instead of 1 for 3). Has anyone seen transfer bonuses for AA or NW?
Aug 9, 2005 | 8:40 am
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milcrat: thank you for response. What I was thinking about is : Starwood has the 25%, but on top of that nonths ago with BA they offered once 100% premium and an other time 50%. So starting with 20,000 Starwood you could have ended up with 50,000 BA miles one promo an other with 37,500 miles.
Originally Posted by milcrat
best i know of is the *wood 20k->25k
Aug 10, 2005 | 8:36 am
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Originally Posted by Ferdinand Magellan
Has anyone seen transfer bonuses for AA or NW?
I used it for a travel package: used 120,000 MR points and turned them in 144,000 AA miles.
Aug 10, 2005 | 9:23 am
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Originally Posted by BigLar
Earlier this year, AA offered a 20% bonus for transferring MR points to AA miles.
I used it for a travel package: used 120,000 MR points and turned them in 144,000 AA miles.
I used it for a travel package: used 120,000 MR points and turned them in 144,000 AA miles.
What am I missing?
Aug 10, 2005 | 9:38 am
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Originally Posted by Ferdinand Magellan
I'm confused. The Amex MR website doesn't list AA as a partner, and Randy said (two years ago) that MR to AA direct transfers can't be done. http://www.usatoday.com/travel/fligh...krandy65_x.htm
What am I missing?
What am I missing?
Mike
Aug 10, 2005 | 4:18 pm
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Originally Posted by mikeinseattle
In this case MR=Marriott Rewards not membership rewards.
Mike
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Well, the title of the thread was "hotel points to airline miles", so I naturally assumed....
Aug 12, 2005 | 9:14 am
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Originally Posted by pgary
Since Delta is now offering a 35% bonus for converting American Express Membership Rewards points to Delta Airlines miles, I suspect that airline might add similar promos for hotel points. The seem to understand that selling miles to points programs is so profitable that they can offer a bonus to get more business.
