Continental Mile Transfer
 

My son has about 12,000 miles in a CO account, and I have about 40,000. We rarely fly CO anymore and I was wondering what I could do to pull the miles out of his account to one that we do use. I received the CO offer to transfer miles at a rate of $5 per 500 miles, but that's $0.01 per mile, which is not cheap.

Any other options out there?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Buzz?

Amazingly, there are countless threads in the CO forum on what to do with orphan CO miles.

Would you be kind enough to post some links?

You may transfer your Continental miles to the Hilton HHonors program for free hotel stays or other rewards.

Thanks - I may do that as a last option if I can't find a way to combine the miles.

True - and not one of them was any help in my case. The miles I need to move are my son's, not mine.

I would just pay the $120 and transfer the 12K with the account that has 40K, more valuable that way IMO. Then you can utilize a 50K award or maybe even more down the line.

You might want to check if Amtrak allows people to combine Amtrak accounts or hold joint accounts. If so, then you could do:

CO acct1 --> Amtrak --> CO acct2

Amtrak can't go back to CO.

I would just use AMTRAK to take out 10K of your son's account and do what you can with your 40K. I have about 34K in CO and will just leave it there in case it's the only airline that has availability in an emergency. I took out all of my daughter's through AMTRAK, and somehow got those to my Diner's Club card. My husband's were transferred to Hilton, but as I said I left my 34K alone.(for now). At least 40K is enough to get a ticket.

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Ms.DtG