Credit card experts say that the new Platinum card and its less expensive sibling, the American Express Gold card, still offer excellent rewards and a more flexible
rewards point transfer program than most.
Even though the Starwood Preferred Guest credit card is primarily a hotel rewards card, it also has a generous 1:1 airline
rewards point transfer program too.
Not exact matches
The card earns Membership
Rewards points, the currency in Amex's loyalty
program, which can be exchanged for statement credits or cash back, used to book travel through Amex's travel website, or, to get the most value,
transferred to any of 17 airline and three hotel
transfer partners (transferable
points are among the best).
Seventy - nine percent of travel credit card holders said they had never
transferred credit card
rewards points to an airline or hotel loyalty
program, despite presumably having those
rewards points.
What makes the Sapphire Preferred even more valuable is the ability to
transfer your Ultimate
Rewards points directly to a frequent flyer
program on a 1:1 basis.
In addition to earning miles when flying with Air France / KLM and their partners, you can
transfer miles into the
program from American Express Membership
Rewards, Chase Ultimate
Rewards, Citi ThankYou
Points, and Starwood Preferred Guest.
Some
rewards programs — such as American Express Membership Rewards and Chase Ultimate Rewards — allow you to transfer points to hotel loyalty pr
rewards programs — such as American Express Membership
Rewards and Chase Ultimate Rewards — allow you to transfer points to hotel loyalty pr
Rewards and Chase Ultimate
Rewards — allow you to transfer points to hotel loyalty pr
Rewards — allow you to
transfer points to hotel loyalty
programs.
Down the road, you may also have miles and
points from specific credit card
reward programs that can
transfer into these
programs.
Ultimate
Rewards (earned from the Sapphire Reserve / Preferred) can be used at a fixed - value when booking through UltimateRewards.com but can also be worth more when
transferring to travel partners like Hyatt or United where you pay a fixed number of
points in those
programs which are not dependent on the cash cost of that room / flight otherwise.
Transferring your
points directly to your travel loyalty
programs is well worth the annual fee because you can easily make your
points worth 2 cents each with these Chase Ultimate
Rewards transfer hacks.
Note: When leveraging travel partners by
transferring Ultimate
Rewards to
programs such as United or Hyatt,
points transfer at a 1:1 ratio in 1,000 -
point increments.
Get a 1:1 rate when
transferring points to partner
programs, or redeem travel directly through the Chase Ultimate
Rewards portal and get 25 % off.
If you also happen to own the Chase Sapphire Preferred or Sapphire Reserve you can
transfer your
rewards points on a 1:1 basis to either
program to enjoy award flights and nights sooner.
But you'll generally get the best return on this card if you instead
transfer the
points from Chase Ultimate
Rewards to another travel rewards p
Rewards to another travel
rewards p
rewards program.
Since Ultimate
Rewards points can be
transferred out to many loyalty
programs at a better value, I have to give the edge to the Sapphire Preferred here.
Some
rewards programs — such as American Express Membership Rewards and Chase Ultimate Rewards — allow you to transfer points to hotel and airline loyalty pr
rewards programs — such as American Express Membership
Rewards and Chase Ultimate Rewards — allow you to transfer points to hotel and airline loyalty pr
Rewards and Chase Ultimate
Rewards — allow you to transfer points to hotel and airline loyalty pr
Rewards — allow you to
transfer points to hotel and airline loyalty
programs.
This is one of our favorite credit card
reward programs, as it allows you to
transfer your
points to some great airline and hotel loyalty
programs.
Some
rewards programs — like Chase's Ultimate Rewards and Amex's Membership Rewards — allow you to transfer your points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
rewards programs — like Chase's Ultimate
Rewards and Amex's Membership Rewards — allow you to transfer your points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
Rewards and Amex's Membership
Rewards — allow you to transfer your points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
Rewards — allow you to
transfer your
points to airline and hotel loyalty
programs.
50,000 Ultimate
Rewards points are worth $ 500 in hard cash, $ 625 in travel booked through the Ultimate
Rewards program, or even more when you
transfer them out to travel partners (more on that later).
Members of Starwood's loyalty
program will have the same status in Marriott's and customers who link their accounts will be able to
transfer three Marriott
Rewards points for each Starwood
point, the company said in a statement on Friday.
Transfer your Chase Ultimate
Rewards ®
points to leading frequent travel
programs at full 1:1 value - that means 1,000 Ultimate
Rewards points equal 1,000 partner miles /
points
You can
transfer points to hotel and airline loyalty
programs through certain
rewards programs like American Express Membership Rewards and Chase Ultimate R
rewards programs like American Express Membership
Rewards and Chase Ultimate R
Rewards and Chase Ultimate
RewardsRewards.
Some
rewards programs — such as Chase's Ultimate Rewards and Amex's Membership Rewards — are even more flexible and allow you to transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
rewards programs — such as Chase's Ultimate
Rewards and Amex's Membership Rewards — are even more flexible and allow you to transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
Rewards and Amex's Membership
Rewards — are even more flexible and allow you to transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
Rewards — are even more flexible and allow you to
transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty
programs.
While the United miles you earn can only be used to book flights with United and other Star Alliance members, Chase Ultimate
Rewards Points (earned with the Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card) can be
transferred to 11 partnered
programs, including both hotel and airline brands.
You also have the option of
transferring points on a 1:1 basis for valuable miles at frequent travel
program partners such as British Airways, United MileagePlus, and Marriott
Rewards.
Instead, it offers users the ability to
transfer their
rewards points to a number of different partner programs — including Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards ®, Marriott Rewards ®, and United MileagePlus ® to name
rewards points to a number of different partner
programs — including Southwest Airlines Rapid
Rewards ®, Marriott Rewards ®, and United MileagePlus ® to name
Rewards ®, Marriott
Rewards ®, and United MileagePlus ® to name
Rewards ®, and United MileagePlus ® to name a few.
While the most you'll get out of this card is a 2.5 %
rewards rate (compared to the 2.8 % -4.2 % max on the Asiana card), you have the option to directly
transfer your
rewards points to other airline and hotel
programs.
Frequent travelers know airline miles are the key to saving money, and the Chase Sapphire Preferred lets you
transfer the
rewards points to participating frequent travel
programs — at full 1:1 value.
Similar to ANA's
transfer partners, the Korean Air redemption is made easier by the fact that SKYPASS partners with 2 transferable
point programs: Chase Ultimate
Rewards and SPG.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred ® Card earns Chase Ultimate
Rewards points, which can be
transferred to a number of hotel and airline loyalty
programs — including the IHG ®
Rewards Club.
These are Chase Ultimate
Rewards points that can be
transferred to 11 participating airline and hotel
programs.
The Amex EveryDay ® Credit Card from American Express offers
points in the American Express Membership
Rewards program, which features 17 different airline
transfer partners.
Given that Starpoints are worth on average 2.4 cents per
point, you should
transfer points to an airline loyalty
program only if you're able to use the resulting
rewards for better value.
You can also
transfer your
points to hotel loyalty
programs including World of Hyatt, IHG
Rewards Club, Marriott
Rewards and The Ritz - Carlton
Rewards.
Many general
rewards credit cards offer redemption in the form of
transferring points or miles to the loyalty
program they are partners with.
Some
rewards programs — like Chase Ultimate Rewards and American Express Membership Rewards — allow you to transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
rewards programs — like Chase Ultimate
Rewards and American Express Membership Rewards — allow you to transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
Rewards and American Express Membership
Rewards — allow you to transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
Rewards — allow you to
transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty
programs.
It allows you to
transfer points into nine frequent - flyer
programs, including United MileagePlus and Southwest Airlines Rapid
Rewards.
Both these cards allow users to
transfer the
rewards points they earn to a number of different partner
programs — both airline and hotel.
For most of the partners, cardholders can
transfer a Membership
Reward (MR)
point at a 1:1 ratio to the ensuing frequent flyer or hotel loyalty
program to use in an award booking or stay.
You can't use one
program's
points with the other's directly but you can
transfer them between
programs to build up your
Rewards or Starpoints for bigger redemptions!
All other
rewards are only worth 1 % and you can not
transfer the
points to other travel
rewards programs (without also owning the Sapphire Preferred or Sapphire Reserve).
Marriott and Ritz - Carlton basically share a
rewards program, but using your
points with them is likely going to be make it difficult to find good value when compared to all of Chase's other
transfer partners.
One final note worth making is that some
point rewards programs allow you to
transfer your
points to hotel / airline loyalty
programs.
The Visa Black card offers no way of
transferring its
rewards points to other loyalty
programs, limiting their value.
There are now several different credit card
reward programs that let you
transfer your
rewards to frequent flyer miles with the airlines or hotel
points.
Some
rewards programs — like Chase Ultimate Rewards and American Express Membership Rewards — allow you to transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
rewards programs — like Chase Ultimate
Rewards and American Express Membership Rewards — allow you to transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
Rewards and American Express Membership
Rewards — allow you to transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty pr
Rewards — allow you to
transfer points to airline and hotel loyalty
programs.
If you want to
transfer Membership
Rewards points to JetBlue or another airline loyalty
program, including Delta, British Airways or Virgin Atlantic, visit American Express's website.
They are generally not as good as some of the other competing
programs like, for example, Chase Ultimate
Rewards, because it doesn't have as robust of a
point -
transfer program.
The American Express Membership
Rewards program features 16 different airline
transfer options and three hotel options, while the Citi ThankYou
Points program has 11 different carriers plus Hilton HHonors.
The original idea for the
program was to
reward you for all your banking, no matter what type it is, but over the years Citi has added several benefits specifically for travelers, such as airline
point transfers.