The only change was an increase in the value of Citi ThankYou Rewards thanks to the addition of
new airline transfer partner Flying Blue.
There's
another new airline transfer partner in the Chase Ultimate Rewards program, one that gives you even more opportunities to put the points you're earning with your Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card or Chase Ink Plus ® to great use.
There's
a new airline transfer partner in the Chase Ultimate Rewards program.
There's
another new airline transfer partner in the Chase Ultimate Rewards program, one that gives you even more opportunities to put the points you're earning with your Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card or Chase Ink Plus ® to great use.
The previously lackluster Citi ThankYou Rewards recently added 9
new airline transfer partners to go with its existing hotel partner, Hilton.
June Value: 1.1 cents July Value: 1.5 cents Why it changed: Citi ThankYou Rewards just added 7
new airline transfer partners for Citi ThankYou Premier and Citi ThankYou Prestige cardholders, including Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, and Garuda Indonesia, which gives ThankYou Rewards a transfer partner in all three major airline alliances.
Not exact matches
While several
airlines, including United, Japan Airlines, and All Nippon Airways, offer direct flights between New York and Tokyo, Korean Air offers the most frequent flyer award availability — useful for us, since we only had a little bit of schedule flexibility — and is a transfer partner of Chase, whose points we had already started
airlines, including United, Japan
Airlines, and All Nippon Airways, offer direct flights between New York and Tokyo, Korean Air offers the most frequent flyer award availability — useful for us, since we only had a little bit of schedule flexibility — and is a transfer partner of Chase, whose points we had already started
Airlines, and All Nippon Airways, offer direct flights between
New York and Tokyo, Korean Air offers the most frequent flyer award availability — useful for us, since we only had a little bit of schedule flexibility — and is a
transfer partner of Chase, whose points we had already started to earn.
The rules of the challenge were to spend under our balance of 250k Ultimate Rewards points while reviewing First / Suites Class on two Ultimate Rewards
transfer partner airlines, and checking out at least three
new partner hotels.
Singapore
Airlines is a
new transfer partner in the Chase Ultimate Rewards program.
The
new transfer partners are Turkish
Airlines and Jet Airways.
The Chase Ultimate Rewards program has 9
airline transfer partners — two
new programs, Aer Lingus AerClub and Iberia Plus, were added in November, 2017.
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.
The
newest transfer partner is a SkyTeam
partner similar to Korean Air, but Flying Blue awards are much easier to process online as most award redemptions, including
partner airlines, can be completed online.
Points
transfer at a 1:1 ratio for nearly all
airline partners, with the exception of United, Gol, Air
New Zealand and LATAM
Airlines.
Singapore
Airlines is a bit of a pricey option for getting to
New Zealand but it still makes the list since it's a
transfer partner to the major reward programs (and thus easy to accumulate miles for) and it offers one of the best business class and economy products out of any
airline.
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.
A roundup of some of the
airline news from the past few days including an innovative check - in incentive from Etihad, an opportunity (albeit brief) to fly on Finnair's A350 between Helsinki and
New York, a new transfer partner for the Flying Blue loyalty program and a new route for ANA's 787 Dreamlin
New York, a
new transfer partner for the Flying Blue loyalty program and a new route for ANA's 787 Dreamlin
new transfer partner for the Flying Blue loyalty program and a
new route for ANA's 787 Dreamlin
new route for ANA's 787 Dreamliner.
Pro tip: Don't
transfer Starpoints to
airline partners that offer a less than 1:1 ratio, including United, Air
New Zealand, GOL
Airlines, and LATAM
Airlines.
Amex gift card — $ 500.00 Donate to charity — $ 1000.00
New York City Taxis — $ 1000.00 Reserve flights via Amex Travel — up to $ 2000.00 (with 50 % points refund) Reserve prepaid hotels via Amex — $ 700.00 Shop with MR points — $ 500.00 Shop with Points at Amazon — $ 700.00 Telecharge — $ 500.00 Ticketmaster — $ 500.00 Third - party gift cards — up to $ 500.00
Transfer to
airline / hotel
partners — sky is the limit
Transfer to Plenti — $ 800.00 Uber — $ 1000.00 Use points at Best Buy — $ 700.00 Use points for Airbnb — $ 700.00 Use points for charges — $ 600.00
In addition, the Etihad's separate partnerships with a dozen other
airlines, including American, Air
New Zealand, and Asiana among others, add even more value to the program, and since Etihad is a
transfer airline partner of the Citi ThankYou and SPG programs, you can easily collect Etihad mles in the U.S. with credit card spending.
Though Barclays
partners with quite a few hotel,
airline and other reward programs for co-branded cards, its Barclaycard Arrival reward program, one of the
newest on the travel reward scene, has made a name for itself fast even though it doesn't actually have any travel
transfer partners.
Singapore
Airlines is a
new transfer partner in the Chase Ultimate Rewards program.
The rules of the challenge were to spend under our balance of 250k Ultimate Rewards points while reviewing First / Suites Class on two Ultimate Rewards
transfer partner airlines, and checking out at least three
new partner hotels.
Depending on your carrier, route, and class of service, this
new redemption value can be better than
transferring points to one of Amex's travel
partners and redeeming through that
airline's loyalty program.
If getting 60,000 or 120,000 Ultimate Rewards points wasn't great enough, this week Chase announced Singapore
Airlines as a
new transfer partner in the Ultimate Rewards program.
Citi dramatically improved its ThankYou Rewards program this past year with all -
new airline partners (and occasional
transfer bonuses).
Premium Ultimate Reward Cards — DIRECTLY
transfer to
airline and hotel
partners: • Personal: Chase Sapphire Preferred and Chase Sapphire Reserve • Business: Ink Plus (no longer offered to
new applicants) and Ink Business Preferred
Chase Ultimate Rewards has added a
new transfer partners: Singapore
Airlines KrisFlyer.
September Value: Not listed October Value: 2.1 cents Valuation: Diners Club Rewards offers 22
transfer partners, including my
new airline crush, Alaska
Airlines, and the distance - based Avios program from British Airways.
Review: The
New Barclays Arrival Premier World Elite Mastercard (With
Airline Transfer Partners!)
I'm relatively
new to the
partner airline redemption angle (usually
transfer cc points to needed FF program).