The US Citi ThankYou program has just added a new transfer partner, meaning they have a total of 15 airline transfer partners.
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Its a hit or miss, correct, but sometimes they have very good business class redemption rates, I've seen 40-50k for J in 7879 between the US and Mexico for instance, the website is pretty bad, and you really need to dig in ... By the way, question, AM and USBank deleted all info about their cobranded card, no applications are taken anymore, have you heard of any new card or partnership in the works? Thks
Doesn't Aeromexico have a "decent" Round the World ticket option for points? It was still ridiculous in terms of points but AMEX transfers 1:1.6 to Aeromexico and I think they also had a bonus once where you could transfer it 1:2 and then the Round the World ticket was at a pretty solid price. However, that brings me to the next point. I understand that not all people have AMEX and Citi Points but offering a 1:1 when AMEX is offering a 1:1.6 as a standard is not really very competitive.
Interesting that they added AM as a 1:1 transfer partner when amex is 1000:1600. The AM award charge is garbage either way but I could see possibly using Amex with it somehow. Citi's transfer rate makes it a non-starter.
Lucky I think Aeromexico doesn't think of its points as miles but rather as kilometers, hence the 1.6 Amex transfer ratio. In that case it's 137.5 miles r/t between US and Europe, which won't win any awards but isn't nearly as bad as Delta either. In any case what is "really bad" here is Citi's transfer ratio.
I think Carlos is right, the award chart prices are in KMs, so you need to divide the cost by 1.6 to find the amount that you'd need to transfer over from Citi. Still not a very good deal, but better than what it appears at first glance.
Is Jet Airways still really a transfer partner? The airline went out of business. Or is its loyalty program still in business?
Yes, Jet Privilege is still in business. They are separate from Jet Airways and are part of the Etihad Aviation Group.
Just because all these blogs never talked about it (or anything in South Asia) doesn't mean nothing happened. They blog on what people in USA (their target readers) cares about. Is there a sweet spot using 9W miles? If there is any, bloggers would have miles with them right now. Ajay from LFAL does cover a lot more about South Asia and 9W.
Remember when people hold Aegean airlines top status without ever realizing where the airline existed, or recently in Asia people have AS miles but never even been to America. Those weird things only happen with a sweet spot.
Speaking of which, those with Platinum on 9W gets to keep their benefits indefinitely 'till further notice' or in the bloggers world term, Lifetime Etihad Lounge access!!!!!