The list of
airline transfer partners now includes: Aeromexico, Air France / KLM Flying Blue, China Eastern, Etihad, EVA Air, Japan Airlines, Jet Privilege, Malaysia Airlines, and Qantas.
Not exact matches
Additionally, remember you can
now transfer your miles to Alaska
Airlines and make use of Alaska's award chart and
partners.
With new
transfer partners Aer Lingus and Iberia
airlines, Chase Ultimate Rewards cardholders can
now transfer points to nine
airlines and four hotel programs, including Hyatt and Ritz - Carlton.
As you know by
now,
transferring your points to Chase's
airline and hotel
partners is absolutely the best option!
With this update, Amex's Membership Rewards program
now offers the most 1:1
airline transfer partners — 11 in total.
Singapore
Airlines has a pretty good Star Alliance
partner award chart right
now, and Singapore miles are insanely easy to get ahold of considering that they are 1:1
transfer partners of American Express Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Points, and Starwood Preferred Guest Starpoints.
I'll admit that it would be a bit strange to remove American
Airlines as a
transfer partner when (a) Marriott doesn't appear too selective when it comes to picking
airline partners and (b) when there's a 20 %
transfer bonus to American right
now....
Rewards are earned in the Citi ThankYou ® Rewards program which
now has 13 different
airline transfer partners.
Amex has been on a bit of a downward trajectory for a few years and is not enjoying the best of times right
now... but Membership Rewards are still extremely useful and the list of
airline transfer partners is impressive:
This includes news that Hyatt has finally woken up and offered a year - end promotion, details of a new American
Airlines route that I have yet to understand, news that we can
now earn IHG rewards through OpenTable (and other food related bookings) and details of two new
transfer partners for Chase Ultimate Rewards.
So far, in 2017, Citi has added Turkish
Airlines and Jet Airways as ThankYou
transfer partners and
now, with immediate effect, it has added the Avianca LifeMiles program too.
Now that you've narrowed down the
airline programs you'd like to
transfer to based on sweet spots to your destination, you need to look up the alliance
partners for Flying Blue and Singapore
Airlines.
Now, for those of us who love utilizing credit cards to earn miles and points for award travel, the value of this card really rests in the potential of
airline transfer partners.
Now, here's the other thing you should know about
transferring points to
airlines — different banks will have different
airline and hotel
partners.
Citi ThankYou Rewards also
now has 12
transfer partners, including Air France / KLM Flying Blue, Cathay Pacific Asia Miles, Singapore
Airlines KrisFlyer, Virgin Atlantic and Hilton HHonors.
I really like Chase Ultimate Rewards points for their ability to
transfer to (
now eleven) different
airline and hotel
partners.
Certain versions of ThankYou points, including the ones offered with this card, can
now be
transferred to
airline partners at a 1:1 ratio, which gives you more options for aspirational travel.
If you're a Citi customer with a case of wanderlust, we have good news: Eligible Citi cards
now offer the option to
transfer ThankYou Points to select
airline partners» frequent flyer programs.
Apart from hotel redemptions, you can
transfer Starpoints to over 30
airline partners, and
now also
transfer points from Starwood to Marriott Rewards at a 1:3 ratio, opening up even more redemption options.
Some of the information is outdated (i.e. US Airways no longer exists as an
airline), but
now that Air France is an Ultimate Rewards
transfer partner, hopefully Drew will do a follow up post to expand on this topic.