If I remember correctly, when I transferred my miles from CO to Amtrak, it was via a telephone conversation with a CO representative. I think that my transfer from Amtrak to UA was a via a phone conversation, this part I am not sure.

In other words, to be safe, there's nothing wrong with making a call.

It is funny that Amtrak has not fixed this misleading info (has been there for years!). Just redeem your Amtrak miles on United and they will show up in your United account in less than a week. You will very likely also get a paper letter about this but your miles will probably hit your United account before you get the letter.

That's been my experience. The only phone call was with CO. No big deal and nobody hassles you, although I suspect that laundering miles in this way is going to raise a flag at some point for CO when they see so many miles passing through from people who rarely fly CO. At least I've had a RT in the past year on CO...

And as reported here, the Amtrak - UA exchange is usually about a week or so. Again, no big deal and that is completely done online. Just pay attention to the annual transfer limit.

Just completed transferring 15,000 miles from CO to Amtrak.

It took two service agent and about 25 minutes. The first agent told me that I can't transfer one pass miles to anywhere and refused to check with her supervisor. I said thank you and hang up then I called again. Unfortunately the same agent picked up the phone so hang up again. A few minutes later I called again and another agent picked up the phone. Again the agent told me I can't do that. I told her that my friend just did this a couple of days ago so she put me on hold for 15 minutes. Luckily when she returned she said she was able to do that and had completed the transfer and said I can expect the points in about 10-15 bussiness days. Is this a sign that they are going to discontinue this? The miles were taken off my account immediately with the following transaction:
9/09/2004 AMTRAK MILEAGE TRANSFER 2VX15

Just wondering, where in Amtrak or One Pass program is this transfer thing mentioned? I can't find them on neither program. :confused: :confused:

Thanks fellow flyertalkers! Without you guys I can't be a savvy traveller.

Never had that problem. But it is obscure and not a standard award (I suspect that there aren't a lot of people who would trade airline miles for rail miles).

The only mention I can find is here: http://www.continental.com/company/a...5150F990A8923F

We've been doing this for some time and have never had a problem. And actually we take the transfer further by doing UA into Diners into BA. :p

I requested transfer from CO to Amtrak last Thursday evening(9/9) and the points have been posted into my Amtrak account Sunday everning(9/12). The process only took three days! ^

co to amtrak is fairly quick
amtrak to united will take 6 - 8 weeks

Not true. That is what Amtrak says but my own experience and experiences of others in this thread say it is only a few days. My turn around from beginning to end, Amex MR points to CO to Amtrak to United miles was 6 days total.

Devaluation doing this...
 

Is there any devaluation of the miles during this process? Thanks.

No devaluation in miles through the CO->Amtrak->UAL process.

Each transfer miles at a 1:1 ratio.

Thanks.
 

Thanks very much. Very helpful thread.

i did 2 transactions
first one took 4 weeks
2nd transaction is 6 weeks and counting

Which transaction is the one that seems to be stuck? Also remember you can only transfer 25,000 Amtrak points to United per year unless you are Amtrak Gold (I think that is what it is called) then you can do 50,000 per year. How many did you do the first time around?

i did 5k on each transfer

both times they were immediately deducted from my continental account
i did the transactions about a week apart

just checked my account
both were withdrawn from my co acct in august
1st deposit of 5k to my united acct on 8/13
still waiting for that 2nd deposit

i will call them
after i get my last 20k from the intercontinental-delta promotion
which is supposed to occur on 9/19 or 9/20