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Current Amex Transfer Bonuses
We just saw over a dozen Amex transfer bonuses for the month of September, and Amex has extended both Marriott and Choice through October. Note that the Asia Miles promo won’t show up on your Amex account, but is processed on their end once you commence a transfer. I’d make sure you test it out with a 1000 points first to make sure the bonus processes.
Amex Cards I would Recommend
- American Express Platinum
- Lounge access, 5x on flights, Fine Hotels and Resorts, Uber Credits, and one of the best offers we’ve ever seen
- American Express Gold – our most used Amex
- 4x on all dining, 4x on us supermarkets up to $25k a year, $120 a year in uber credits, $120 a year in dining credits, it’s one of my all time fave cards
- American Express Business Platinum
- Lounge access, 1.5x on purchases over 5k, Dell Credits, etc
- American Express Business Gold
- 4x on your top two monthly categories including gas and dining
- American Express Blue Business Plus
- 2x on every single purchase up to $50k a year.
The bonuses currently running
Expires on 1/31/23
- 20% Bonus to Hawaiian
Past transfer bonuses
- 25% tranfser bonus
- Air France/KLM Flying Blue ( 1000 points = 1250 Flying Blue Miles )
- 25% transfer bonus
- Choice Hotels ( 1000 points = 1250 Choice points )
- 20% transfer bonus
- Marriott Bonvoy ( 1000 points = 1200 Bonvoy Points )
- Cathay Pacific Asia Miles
- 10% bonus transferring under 30k miles
- 15% bonus transferring over 30k miles
- 30% transfer bonus
- Hilton Honors ( 1000 points = 2600 Hilton Honors )
- Virgin Atlantic ( 1000 points = 1300 Virgin Points )
- 25% transfer bonus
- Aer Lingus ( 1000 points = 1250 Avios )
- Air France/KLM Flying Blue ( 1000 points = 1250 Flying Blue Miles )
- British Airways Executive Club ( 1000 points = 1250 Avios )
- 20% transfer bonus
- AeroMexico ( 1000 points = 1920 Premier Points )
- Qantas ( 500 points = 600 Qantas Points )
- Hawaiian ( 1000 points = 1200 Hawaiian Miles )
- 15% transfer bonus
- Aeroplan ( 1000 = 1150 Aeroplan Points )
- Avianca LifeMiles ( 1000 points = 1150 LifeMiles )
2021
- 40% bonus
- Aer Lingus
- Iberia
- British Airways
- 30% Bonus
- Hilton
- Marriott
- Virgin Atlantic
- 25% Bonus
- Hawaiian Airlines
- Air France
- AeroMexico
- Qantas
- 20% Bonus
- Aeroplan
- 15%
- Avianca Lifemiles
Don’t forget to check out our Best Uses of Amex Points! Here’s a sneak peek
British Airways Example to Hawaii:
Using British Airways Avios to book Ameircan Airlines or Alaska Airlines flights is a secret weapon of the program especially if you can do it for pricey flights to Hawaii. One thing to keep in mind…search on AA.com and view the results in calendar mode. If you see it in green ( between 20k and 22.5k each way – the odds are it will be bookable with British Airways Avios.
LAX To Honolulu: 2 people would be 26k Avios and $11.20 – with this transfer bonus that’s only 20k Amex points each way FOR TWO PEOPLE!
Pretty much every single day in Feb is avail – this is the calendar view on American, only to be used to look at larger swaths of space, but not 100% that it will be available to British Airways.
Virgin Atlantic Example:
Did you know that you can use Virgin Atlantic miles to book Delta Business Class or even Air France business class? Heck, you could even book ANA to Japan with Virgin Atlantic miles. Most people don’t realize this and think you need to book only Virgin Atlantic. Let’s look at a calendar for JFK to Paris this coming January…quite a bit of space at just 48,500 miles and $250 – that’s just 38k Amex points with this offer.
Here’s a look
You’d be flying like this
Aeroplan example:
You could redeem 70k Aeroplan to fly Business Class from the US to Europe…just 59k with the current transfer bonus
Iberia Example
Iberia is especially sweet – remember that you can merge points between British Airways Avios and Iberia Avios by following our step by step guide.
- NYC and BOS to Madrid for just 34k in business class
- ORD and MIA to Madrid = 42,500
- LAX to MAD = 51k
The list goes on and on…
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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