Change program
Dec 4, 2003 | 5:01 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: here, there and everywhere
Posts: 160
Change program
If I am not happy with one program, can I request that airline to put all my accrued miles into another program (200 k ). Will any airline accept if that program agrees to do so.
Dec 4, 2003 | 8:45 am
#4
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: MCI
Programs: AA Gold 1MM, AS MVP, UA Silver, WN A-List, Marriott LT Titanium, HH Diamond
Posts: 53,006
You occasionally get rare opportunities to do this for specific airlines. For example, at certain times of the year you can use Diner's Club as an intermediary to near-1:1 into British Airways, provided your source miles will convert to DC. And I think Amtrak can provide some limited 1:1 conversion opportunities.
Other than special cases, conversion rates to push miles around are pretty brutal.
If you have FF miles that you truly feel are useless (even for partner airline award redemptions), your best bet might be to push 'em into a hotel program and stop right there. Use the points for free hotel stays. (Not that I'd personally do that with 200k. I'd try awfully hard to find a use for them in their current form.)
Or redeem 'em for a bazillion magazine subscriptions.
[This message has been edited by pinniped (edited Dec 04, 2003).]
Other than special cases, conversion rates to push miles around are pretty brutal.
If you have FF miles that you truly feel are useless (even for partner airline award redemptions), your best bet might be to push 'em into a hotel program and stop right there. Use the points for free hotel stays. (Not that I'd personally do that with 200k. I'd try awfully hard to find a use for them in their current form.)
Or redeem 'em for a bazillion magazine subscriptions.
[This message has been edited by pinniped (edited Dec 04, 2003).]
Dec 4, 2003 | 9:28 am
#5
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Circumambulatory
Posts: 154
This happened when Qualiflyer was disintegrating. You could stay with the new Swiss, new Brussels Airlines and was it TAP?, OR you could also request transfer to Miles and More with LOT (Polish) accession to the latter.
Even though most my miles in the programme were earned on Swissair and indeed NONE was earned on LOT, I managed to do this latter=better option of combining miles from two programmes, but I did have to send more than half a dozen faxes/letters.
Anyway ... this happens rarely, as programmes like Qualiflyer (where you could earn the very same miles from 3 flag carriers -- Swiss, Belgian, Poruguese -- in one programme) are an oddity rather than a rule and virtually nonexistant today.
(Miles and More with Lufthansa, Austrian, now LOT and small subsidiaries vaguely resembles that, as does Alaska/Horizon.)
Even though most my miles in the programme were earned on Swissair and indeed NONE was earned on LOT, I managed to do this latter=better option of combining miles from two programmes, but I did have to send more than half a dozen faxes/letters.
Anyway ... this happens rarely, as programmes like Qualiflyer (where you could earn the very same miles from 3 flag carriers -- Swiss, Belgian, Poruguese -- in one programme) are an oddity rather than a rule and virtually nonexistant today.
(Miles and More with Lufthansa, Austrian, now LOT and small subsidiaries vaguely resembles that, as does Alaska/Horizon.)