{"id":2480,"date":"2021-09-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:19:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:19:22","slug":"transfer-bonuses-and-how-to-use-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/transfer-bonuses-and-how-to-use-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer Bonuses and How To Use Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/advisor\/credit-cards\/amex-boosts-over-a-dozen-membership-rewards-partner-transfer-ratios\/\">American Express has a transfer bonus<\/a> from Membership Rewards to all of its airline partners, something unheard of until this point. You\u2019ve probably heard this reported elsewhere already, so let\u2019s add to the conversation with a few particular sweet spots:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>40% bonus to Avios with Aer Lingus, British Airways, or Iberia\n<ul>\n<li>Use Iberia for great award space from the US to Europe and avoid fuel surcharges with BA with the same flight access. Look for Madrid trips for extra value. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>30% bonus to Virgin Atlantic, Hilton, Marriott\n<ul>\n<li>Use Virgin Atlantic for really low redemption round-trip tickets in Business or First to Japan and Eastern Asia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>25% bonus to AirFrance\/KLM FlyingBlue, Aeromexico, Hawaiian\n<ul>\n<li>Use FlyingBlue in conjunction with <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyingblue.us\/en\/earn-spend\/flights\/promo-rewards\">rotating promo award specials<\/a> for flights to Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>20% bonus to Air Canada\u2019s Aeroplan or Qantas\n<ul>\n<li>Use Aeroplan for short haul economy flights in the US<\/li>\n<li>Use Aeroplan for business or first class flights from the Central or Eastern US to Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>15% bonus to LifeMiles\n<ul>\n<li>Use LifeMiles for loose definitions of what a region is<\/li>\n<li>Use LifeMiles for economy bookings from the Central or Eastern US to Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/pfpywk\/daily_discussion_thread_september_01_2021\/hb876bq\/?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\">United has a 30% bonus<\/a> when transferring from hotel points to United MileagePlus miles. <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/promo.united.com\/offers\/p2m?utm_source=Solo&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=P2M2021\">You have to register here first<\/a> though.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transfer Marriott Bonvoy points. With the transfer bonus, you\u2019re looking at approximately 1.85 Bonvoy points to 1 MileagePlus mile. I\u2019d say that\u2019s about the best general use case of Bonvoy points I\u2019ve seen in a long time. (This is a terrible idea with most other programs, especially Hyatt.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Thursday!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2483\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/neptune.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/neptune.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/neptune-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/neptune-150x150.jpeg 150w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Bonus: Neptune\u2019s sweet spot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. American Express has a transfer bonus from Membership Rewards to all of its airline partners, something unheard of until this point. You\u2019ve probably heard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-miles","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}