The main
domestic airline transfer partner for American Express is Delta.
Not exact matches
Transfers to
airlines generally occur in just a few seconds, however there is no way to share points between other cardholders, including spouses and
domestic partners.
Bottom Line:
Transfer ratios are not stellar, and there is a lack of
domestic airline partners.
Citi Prestige has only one
domestic airline partner, JetBlue, and the
transfer ratio isn't the best — 1,000 ThankYou points to 500 TrueBlue points.
First, Southwest
Airlines Rapid Rewards ® is a great Ultimate Rewards ®
transfer partner for
domestic airfare.
Citi Prestige has only one
domestic airline partner, JetBlue, and the
transfer ratio isn't the best — 1,000 ThankYou points to 500 TrueBlue points.
This can be a good use of your UR points if you want to book a cruise or
domestic flight (when there's no availability on a
transfer partner, or you want to fly an
airline that isn't a
transfer partner).
But all 11 of Citi's
airline transfer partners — including Qantas, Virgin Atlantic, Air France and Qatar Airways — are based overseas, so cardholders who do most of their traveling on
domestic carriers won't benefit.
Thankfully, Membership Rewards has one of the widest selections of point
transfer partners, including members of all three major alliances and a number of non-alliance
airlines, such as
domestic carriers Hawaiian, JetBlue and Virgin America.
Otherwise, you'll have the option to
transfer your points to one of Chase's
airline or hotel
transfer partners, or to another Chase account held by you, your spouse, or your
domestic partner.
That can be
transferred to an
airline partner, and it should be enough to book a
domestic award flight.
Ultimate Rewards outdo American Express Membership Rewards with a 1:1
transfer ratio to British Airways, which can be used to book relatively cheap
domestic short - haul flights on American
Airlines, not to mention other partner airlines all over th
Airlines, not to mention other
partner airlines all over th
airlines all over the world.
Although
transferring points to international
airlines is free, American Express passes excise taxes in the amount of $ 0.0006 per point on to cardholders for all
domestic airline partners.
Also, although there is no
domestic airline besides Virgin America (with a 500 to 1,000
transfer ratio), don't forget that you can always utilize alliance
partners to book on
domestic airlines.
When you
transfer your points to
airline partners, you can score incredibly low - cost
domestic travel through British Airways, which offers 9,000 mile roundtrips on short flights, and Southwest, a perennial favorite for its great service.
The best way to redeem an award is by
transferring points to one of American Express's 16
airline partners, especially if you redeem internationally or need to get an expensive
domestic ticket.
ThankYou Points can be
transferred, usually on a 1 - to - 1 basis, to many travel
partners, but your
domestic airline options are sharply limited.
Chase used to let you
transfer Ultimate Rewards to other members, but recently limited that option along with the ability to
transfer Ultimate Rewards from your account to the
airline or hotel accounts of others (except spouses or
domestic partners).