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Just to find out later that you could have saved a quarter of those hard - earned miles if you would have just transferred those points to an airline program instead of booking directly through a credit card booking portal like Chase Sapphire Preferred's Ultimate Rewards.

Not exact matches

For example, if you are short 3,000 miles for an American Airlines AAdvantage award, you can transfer just 3,000 points to your account and book your award flight.

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.

Just like the Chase Freedom, you can transfer the Ultimate Rewards points to the Chase Sapphire Preferred, Chase Ink Bold, Chase Ink Plus or the JP Morgan Select card and from there to airline or hotel partners such as Hyatt, Southwest, British Airways, or United.

A free night starts at just 2,000 Starpoints, and you have options to transfer points to airline loyalty programs.

However, if the points were transferred to Singapore Airline KrisFlyer Miles and then booked with partner airlines Virgin Atlantic, you'd get the same flight for just 50,000 miles, which works out to almost 2 cents a point.

This means you can transfer your Chase points to any of those airlines or hotels, giving you an endless number of options for redeeming these points (vs being stuck with just one airline or hotel).

A free night starts at just 2,000 Starpoints, and you have options to transfer points to airline loyalty programs.

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Transferring points from credit card rewards programs, such as Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou, or American Express Membership Rewards is a great way to fly on their partner airlines, but that's just the beginning.

This is because you can transfer them to a number of different airline and hotel partners, making them extremely valuable (rather than collecting just one type of point, e.g. Hyatt points).

You don't have to be a frequent flyer to earn airline miles; just earn a sign - up bonus from Chase credit card offers and do some everyday spending, then transfer those points to miles!

For that reason, these are almost always the best cards when you are just starting as they allow you to accumulate points that can be used to fly with tons of different airlines thanks to their airline transfer partners.

Yesterday, we mentioned that if you want to end up with United Airlines miles, you'll want to transfer the other direction (READ MORE: 3 SPG transfer partners you do NOT want to use), but for just about any other airline that SPG transfers to you'll want to transfer Marriott points to SPG.

However, if the points were transferred to Singapore Airline KrisFlyer Miles and then booked with partner airlines Virgin Atlantic, you'd get the same flight for just 50,000 miles, which works out to almost 2 cents a point.

However, just as with Chase, the Preferred card won't allow you to transfer points to the Citi airline partners.

Assuming you were allowed to transfer just 1,000 points, this is how many airline miles you would receive.

By transferring your points to KrisFlyer miles, you can redeem miles and fly airlines like United, Swiss, Lufthansa, or Turkish airlines to the Middle East and North Africa in economy for just 37,500.

Just be aware that you generally get a better value by transferring points to an airline or hotel.

SPG points are also very valuable, but much of that value comes from the ability to transfer to a massive network of airlines, so SPG is not just a hotel rewards program.

For example, if you are short 3,000 miles for an American Airlines AAdvantage award, you can transfer just 3,000 points to your account and book your award flight.

Citi ThankYou Rewards points transfer over to 14 different airline loyalty programs and, just like with Chase Ultimate Rewards, ThankYou points transfer over to all of Citi's airline partners at a 1:1 ratio.

When I have a sizeable rewards balance I also transfer over to the Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer program (that's how I booked Joanna and I into Singapore Airlines Suites between Hong Kong and Singapore and the Singapore and London) and I always keep an eye out for American Airlines saver awards just in case there's an opportunity to transfer Membership Rewards points over to Etihad and book American Business or First Class at a favorable rate.

I have transferred quite a few SPG points to American Airlines in the past just because American Airlines miles are otherwise a little challenging to get my hands on since they aren't transfer partners of Chase, American Express, or Citi.

I made the most of a recent Choice points sale when United Airlines was offering a bonus for transfers of hotel points to Mileage Plus and I ended up effectively buying United Miles for just 1.13 cents each.

Free hotel nights start at just 2,000 points, and you also have the ability to transfer your Starpoints ® to one of over 30 airline partners!

«Some cards will give you perks and upgrades just for being a cardholder, while others offer more versatility by allowing you to transfer points to other programs, including airlines,» he explains.

Fortunately, Singapore Airlines is a transfer partner of American Express Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Points, and SPG Starpoints so they are still some of the easier points to earn in the states... you'll just have to use more ofPoints, and SPG Starpoints so they are still some of the easier points to earn in the states... you'll just have to use more ofpoints to earn in the states... you'll just have to use more of them.

It's not just that Starwood has a whopping 36 airline transfer partners, but SPG also offers a 5,000 - mile bonus for every 20,000 points transferred to an airline frequent flyer program.

I've also held the Starwood card long - term as you just can't beat the ability to transfer points to airline miles as necessary.

With the ability to transfer points to over 30 different airlines, you can replicate many of the benefits of multiple cards with just one card.

These are just a few of many great ways you can use Singapore Airlines as a transfer partner to make the most of your Ultimate Rewards points.

If you transfer your Amex points to Delta, you can get a flight to Hawaii for 45,000 miles, and for Hawaiian it's even better — just 40,000 miles between Hawaii and the continental U.S. Bottom line: if you transfer to an airline's program you will save 30,000 - 35,000 miles.

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Starpoints are valuable for SPG stays (with Category 1 properties starting at just 2,000 points per night); Starpoints are valuable when transferred to a myriad of airline partners at 20,000 Starpoints to 25,000 airline miles; Starpoints are valuable when transferred to Marriott at a rate of 1 Starpoint = 3 Marriott Rewards points — really, you almost can't go wrong with Starpoints.

Why We Like It: Starpoints ® are valuable and quite flexible, meaning this hotel - branded card is good for a lot more than just earning free hotel stays — like free flights since you can redeem your points with more than 150 airlines or transfer your points directly to one of about 30 frequent flyer programs (transfer 20,000 Starpoints ® and receive 5,000 bonus points).

I'm inclined to just transfer all of my Wyndham points to airline miles before this is devalued as well.

The Chase Freedom or Sapphire, while they still earn UR points they just don't have the benefit of being able to transfer to airline partners.

Platinum members have no minimum point transfer, they can literally transfer just 1 point to a frequent flyer program, which is a great way to keep an airline mileage account from expiring.

Hi, Just learned that from your great blog about transfering Chase freedom points to Ink plus business card and from there I could covert points to United airline miles.

SPG only has better valuation due its transfer capabilities to other airlines and nothing more... Every Blogger should probably have atleast one post on the Earning and Burning rather than just redemption points and valuations based on that..

Now, I recently helped a client book Singapore Airlines First Class from Moscow (DME) to Houston (IAH) one way for just over 57K Membership Rewards points (MR points transfer 1:1 to KrisFlyer, and there's a 15 % discount when booking online), whereas this will cost 67.5 K United miles, so not every route will offer a savings in miles, especially if you value United miles more than Membership Rewards points, as I do.

What I was saying is that since my WIFE now has an Ink, I feel like I can cancel mine, since if / when we need to transfer, I can just transfer my points to her, and then SHE can transfer them to the airline or hotel chain.

If you use United MileagePlus as your primary airline rewards program, it can even be worth signing up for one of their co-branded credit cards just for access to last - seat «Standard» - level award availability, even if you never spend a dollar on the card, since access to those Standard awards can increase the value of Ultimate Rewards points transferred in from Chase.

If you prefer to travel with loyalty programs outside of the named partners, the Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card may feel limiting to you even though you can use your points to book with any airline — you just can't transfer points to any airline and take advantage of possibly lower redemption rates.