However, you can easily transfer miles to Korean Air from
other loyalty programs like Chase Ultimate Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest, and some awards are cheaper to book through SKYPASS than through competing programs, even for travel on the same airline.
You could also transfer points from
other loyalty programs like Marriott, Hilton etc... Starwood point transfers to Etihad Guest are not eligible for the 25 % bonus from this promotion (you will still get 5,000 bonus miles for every 20,000 star points transferred to Etihad Guest — No option to double dip)
I've already included all of these different prices in my Award Maximizer tool, which will look up award prices using Asia Miles and also compare them to award travel using
other loyalty programs like British Airways or American Airlines.
Not exact matches
While brands
like Starbucks and Marriott have embraced
loyalty programs and demonstrated clear ROI,
others — including Chipotle — have pointedly not implemented such
programs.
But as
loyalty programs are integrated and more consumers rely on their mobile wallets for
other features
like in - app payments, adoption and usage will surge over the next few years.
If none of these deals appeal to you, there are
other ways to cut your diaper costs,
like signing up for diaper brand
loyalty programs.
Which
other loyalty programs are
like this?
In 2017, the Hilton Honors
loyalty program was reconfigured; it no longer uses award charts
like other major hotel
loyalty programs such as World of Hyatt and Marriott Rewards.
All the miles you earn are worth a fixed amount when redeemed for travel, so you can't stretch their value
like you can with
other rewards and
loyalty programs.
My Best Buy works just
like most brand -
loyalty programs we see in
other stores — at the time of purchase, you can present your membership card and earn rewards points.
This comes in handy if you need to redeem for travel that normally wouldn't be covered by
other loyalty programs (
like a rail ticket through Europe or a bed and breakfast in a sleepy beach town), or if you're new to award travel and are having trouble learning the ropes.
Of course, some miles are not eligible for Aeroplan status,
like miles transferred from
other loyalty programs and miles transferred between member accounts.
If you receive an offer for a guaranteed approval credit card, a credit card issuer may have purchased your name on a list of customer contact information from
other brands you have a relationship with —
like rewards or
loyalty programs, catalogs, and magazines.
For super point accumulators
like Lau, bonus point promotions and transfer bonuses that come with converting points to
other loyalty programs pay off big - time, often accounting for as much as 20 % of a credit card churner's annual point total.
You'll get 50 % more than with the Ritz - Carlton card when you dine out or travel, and you can do more with them, transferring them to a variety of
other loyalty programs or using them
like cash with a value of 1.5 cents each to book whatever flight or hotel you want through Chase's reservations portal.
While this may seem
like a large number of points, many
other hotel
loyalty programs offer double the number of bonus points for their premium cards.
Possibly the most valuable benefit of the Chase Ink Cash is that you can pool your rewards points from your
other Chase Ultimate Rewards - earning credit cards
like the Chase Sapphire or Ink Business Preferred to transfer them on a 1:1 basis to airline and hotel
loyalty programs.
All the miles you earn are worth a fixed amount when redeemed for travel, so you can't stretch their value
like you can with
other rewards and
loyalty programs.
Other ways to earn miles include using specific credit cards, transferring from certain
loyalty programs, and taking advantage of special offers
like Refer a Friend.
Of course, some miles are not eligible for Aeroplan status,
like miles transferred from
other loyalty programs and miles transferred between member accounts.
No, just
like today, award travel is not eligible to earn miles with MileagePlus or any
other loyalty program.
Like other loyalty programs, Chase does allow you to pay for all or part of your travel purchase with points.
* It's important to note that
other hotel
loyalty programs like Hilton and IHG are known to deny elite benefits when booking through an OTA (IHG even does this sometimes when you make an award booking).
Join hotel
loyalty programs Join hotel
loyalty programs for access to the club room or
other perks
like free WiFi.
Eligible guests will receive an email alert shortly before their arrival at the hotel asking for information
like their room preferences,
loyalty program number, and any
other comments that may be useful to ensure a great stay.
As someone who values hotel elite status, I often have to book directly with the hotel and lose out on many cash back portals or
other generic
loyalty programs like Expedia Rewards.
IHG Rewards (the rewards
program for the
likes of InterContinental, Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza amongst
others) has been known to offer some of the more interesting and potentially lucrative promotions found in the hotel
loyalty program arena...... and the latest «IHG Accelerate» promotion for summer 2017 is now live.
It's not as good a value as some
other redemption options
like flights or hotels because the
loyalty program has to buy actual merchandise at full price, rather than giving away unused inventory.
Like a few
other loyalty programs, Delta SkyMiles provides the opportunity to book non-stop awards to Tahiti by partnering with Air Tahiti Nui.
It's very similar to any
other online travel agency
loyalty program,
like Expedia Rewards, except for two factors: (1) I think PointsHound is far more generous and (2) it's generally more useful to add miles to a
program you already participate in than to join a new
program.
I swore off Southwest not for bad service but just because I
liked the value I saw in more conventional
loyalty programs that would let me travel in a lie - flat seat to
other countries... not just
other counties.
They are a rule
like any
other, and frequent flyers have a choice when they pick their favorite
loyalty program or earn miles with a credit card.
I'm quite the pessimist when it comes to changes in
loyalty programs — what they give with one hand they often take away with the
other — so I
like to see the small print and make sure that there are no nasty surprises tucked away before breathing too big a sigh of relief
No
other hotel
loyalty program offers anything
like that.
Marriott joins
other brands
like IHG, Kimpton and Fairmont in offering free wi - fi — but only to registered members of their
loyalty programs.
Club Carlson doesn't get quite the attention that
other hotel
loyalty programs like Hilton, Marriott, Hyatt, and SPG but they do have some excellent properties throughout the globe.
This is already a raw deal as many
other loyalty programs charge something
like 1.5 X for business and 2X for first.
Like all
other loyalty programs it is free to sign up for, which you can do here.
Similar to transferring points to airline partners in
other flexible point currencies
like Amex Membership Rewards, you'll need to select the transfer partner and enter your
loyalty program membership details.
Hilton Honors has its pros and cons,
like most
other travel
loyalty programs.
There are
other programs and portals
like Fine Hotels and Resorts
program for American Express Platinum and Business Platinum cardholders which throw in a bunch of added perks and benefits, so that even though you most likely won't earn hotel points or elite status stay credits (since most
loyalty programs make you book directly through their site or corporate travel portals to get points), you can still get lot of extra value and perks out of your booking.
Frequent flyer miles are just
like any
other commodity in the market so there are wide variations and differentiation between the various
loyalty programs offered by the airlines.
Fortunately I have a lot of options — for escalating, for bringing in
others (
like American Express), and for reaching out to executives at the
loyalty program.
Like its extensive partner agreements that let you earn and redeem miles on a dozen domestic and international partners (one reason I call Alaska's Mileage Plan one of the best
loyalty programs for infrequent travelers), they have partnered with
other lounges at airports where they have a major presence.
Other strategic information could include: connected third party application data; comments and
likes on public Facebook pages; internet browsing history through Facebook APIs and scripts; consumer
loyalty programs, mobile app logins; publicly shared photos and profile information that users forget about; and (I'm presuming) more mundane tactics such as harnessing unassuming personality «quizzes» on Facebook that capture invaluable psychometric data people readily share with their friends and families, but not with a psychological voter profiling firm.
Data brokers
like Acxiom — whose stock is almost 20 - percent down following Facebook's move — are companies that harvest consumer data through store
loyalty programs, online and offline surveys, and a wide variety of
other means.