which airline would you transfer your points to?

[Yellow]

so basically i have 21,000 points on my starwood AMEX and on my AMEX gold card i have another 27,000 miles.
I'm have mileage accounts with continental and AA, and i cant decide where to transfer them to!
On the one hand, i hear that these transferred points will go towards my lifetime million miler status with AA
But on the other hand, Continental has better award booking options (or so i've been told)
so what would you folks do if you were me?  

[steve2]

 id keep the SPG right where they are and us them for Hotel stay/s

 the Amex MR id put into which ever Carrier youd think you cash them in at , depending where U want to go

AA is great 10/15-5/15 as it takes only 40k for a coach tkt to Europe (I think only on their Metal not 100% sure) this past yr I used 120k and flew 3 x a much better deal IMO then 1 Biz tkt.then depending where you go you can stay for free at *W using those pts

 Now if U arent even close to 1M total in your AA acct, I wouldnt worry about getting it now that the CCs cant be churned any longer, that is unless U live on planes like I do. unless you have have another way to get 100s of 1000s of miles 1-2-3 w/o Status theres a limit to teh amount of miles a person can earn a yr off the CC , its capped for those w/o any status

[Dan]

so basically i have 21,000 points on my starwood AMEX and on my AMEX gold card i have another 27,000 miles.
I'm have mileage accounts with continental and AA, and i cant decide where to transfer them to!
On the one hand, i hear that these transferred points will go towards my lifetime million miler status with AA
But on the other hand, Continental has better award booking options (or so i've been told)
so what would you folks do if you were me? 

AMEX points can't go to AA, so that leaves Continental if those are your 2 options.
SPG points don't go to Continental, so assuming you want miles and not hotel points transfer those to AA.

[steve2]

AMEX points can't go to AA, so that leaves Continental if those are your 2 options.
SPG points don't go to Continental, so assuming you want miles and not hotel points transfer those to AA.

 SPG does go to CO but not at a 1:1 rate but 2 SPG ; 1 CO (or UA)

 didnt know that about AMEX & AA, I knew no UA with MR

 then again SPG to US and if MR can go to US till 7/31 might not be bad but I like using my SPG for exactly that especially once outside the US where hotels are alot of $$$ and for C&P if at all possible, usually a beter bang for the SPG pts then using them for Miles

[Mikeoracle]

SPG does go to CO but not at a 1:1 rate but 2 SPG ; 1 CO (or UA)

 didnt know that about AMEX & AA, I knew no UA with MR

 then again SPG to US and if MR can go to US till 7/31 might not be bad but I like using my SPG for exactly that especially once outside the US where hotels are alot of $$$ and for C&P if at all possible, usually a beter bang for the SPG pts then using them for Miles

MR doesnt transfer to US either- here are their transfer partners and ratios;

MR Transfer partners   Ratio MR=?

Aero Mexico   1000=1000
Air Canada   1000=1000
Air Train   1200=1a+
Alitalia   1000=1000
ANA   1000=1000
British Airways   1000=1000
Continental   1000=1000
Delta   1000=1000
ElAl   1050=50
Flying Blue (KLM/AF)   1000=1000
Frontier   1000=1000
Hawaiian Air   1000=1000
Iberia   1400=100
Jet Blue   250=200
Mexicana   1000=1000
KrisFlyer (Singapore)   1000=1000
Southwest   1500=1
Virgin Atlantic   1000=1000

[steve2]

 ANA wouldnt be bad if a person has a way to keep increasing it so that they could cash out for an Intl tkt but I believe ANA has an expiration to it

thusly CO looks like the best deal especially since they are other ways to add 10s of 1000s of miles to the acct

 FWIW I usually dont carry a reg AMEX and when I ddi I got it for the bonus miles which went straight into CO and was the reason for getting the CC to begin with

[Mikeoracle]

If he transfers to ANA he will be just 7K short for a ticket to Israel and has 3 years to redeem before the miles expire. Thats pretty doable (keeping in mind the possible fees if booked on an intl airline- but if flexible and can get on a US carrier.....)

[YOSEF]

MR doesnt transfer to US either- here are their transfer partners and ratios;

MR Transfer partners   Ratio MR=?

Aero Mexico   1000=1000
Air Canada   1000=1000
Air Train   1200=1a+
Alitalia   1000=1000
ANA   1000=1000
British Airways   1000=1000
Continental   1000=1000
Delta   1000=1000
ElAl   1050=50
Flying Blue (KLM/AF)   1000=1000
Frontier   1000=1000
Hawaiian Air   1000=1000
Iberia   1400=100
Jet Blue   250=200
Mexicana   1000=1000
KrisFlyer (Singapore)   1000=1000
Southwest   1500=1
Virgin Atlantic   1000=1000

i believe that MR only gives 15 elal matmid points per 1050.
If its 50, then that would be an amazing deal to TLV- only 29400 MR for a RT

[steve2]

If he transfers to ANA he will be just 7K short for a ticket to Israel and has 3 years to redeem before the miles expire. Thats pretty doable (keeping in mind the possible fees if booked on an intl airline- but if flexible and can get on a US carrier.....)

I assume thats with transferring both from Amex and SPG and assuming they have other ways to get the extra 7k needed

 if the OP wants to transfer everything so that they dont lose the miles (pts) since they are CXing the CCs then w/o knowing exactly how to get the 7k needed into ANA I wouldnt transfer into ANA. If they plan on trying to churn the CCs or get a different Amex that will earn them the same pts so that could transfer in the shortfall thats something else

[Smirk]

What is the cap for earning miles if you have no status?

[steve2]

What is the cap for earning miles if you have no status?

 on Whom? as each Carrier has its own T&CS

[Smirk]

AA

[Dan]

On ANA you'd be limited to flying on CO/US if you don't want to pay fees for the award.
Best to stick with a CO transfer I think unless you know there's availability on CO/US for an ANA transfer.

[aussiebochur]

AA

What is the cap for earning miles if you have no status?

The maximum number of American Airlines AAdvantage® miles you can earn from purchases using the Citi® Platinum Select® / AAdvantage® World MasterCard® and the Citi Select® / AAdvantage® American Express® card is 100,000 AAdvantage® miles per calendar year and 150,000 AAdvantage® miles per calendar year with CitiBusiness® / AAdvantage® Visa® card. AAdvantage® bonus miles are excluded from this mileage cap. AAdvantage Executive Platinum®, AAdvantage Platinum® and AAdvantage Gold® members are excluded from these limits.

[steve2]

AA

 100k  now thats per Citi CC acct

 Edited since correct what I posted on pg 2

[Dan]

100k I believe that includes the bonus miles for getting the CC, now thats per Citi CC acct

Nope, the signup bonus miles and any double bonus miles promos do not count towards the cap.

[Smirk]

The maximum number of American Airlines AAdvantage® miles you can earn from purchases using the Citi® Platinum Select® / AAdvantage® World MasterCard® and the Citi Select® / AAdvantage® American Express® card is 100,000 AAdvantage® miles per calendar year and 150,000 AAdvantage® miles per calendar year with CitiBusiness® / AAdvantage® Visa® card. AAdvantage® bonus miles are excluded from this mileage cap. AAdvantage Executive Platinum®, AAdvantage Platinum® and AAdvantage Gold® members are excluded from these limits.

oh man! Any way around this???

Is this a citi or AA rule?

[steve2]

On ANA you'd be limited to flying on CO/US if you don't want to pay fees for the award.
Best to stick with a CO transfer I think unless you know there's availability on CO/US for an ANA transfer.

 Dan cant they also cash out for UA to Europe and then LH,LX or vwhomever into TLV thusly reducing the surcharges. But U are correct if  aperson wants a non-stop then its CO from EWR or US from PHL

[steve2]

Nope, the signup bonus miles and any double bonus miles promos do not count towards the cap.

 thanks for correcting me, Ive pretty much have always been a LT Plat due to buyout of TWAs ago, so I never had a limit

[steve2]

oh man! Any way around this???

Is this a citi or AA rule?

 1 way is to fly 25k and become 1st level Elite, I know Plats and EXPs dont have a limit I assume the same for Golds (which is AAs 1st level = Silver on most others

 I believe people with 100k in Citi accts are also exempted

 otherwise you wil have to keep applying for the different CCs and get a new CC# and then charge the 100k, which isnt  atrue churn since you wont get the Bonus sign up but hopefully it will reset your clock to 0 Miles haveb been earned during the yr

 when u arrive late to the party a begger cant be a choser