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Get 30% more Hilton Honors Points when you transfer Membership Rewards® points through 10/14/2026.
Historically, which we can see in our master list of past transfer bonuses from Amex to Hilton, the offers tend to range from 25% – 40% (with 40% being extremely rare and 30% as the best of the regular offers). We have seen a few this year already but at only 20%.
Despite devaluations, Hilton points can be quite valuable, especially using the 5th night free on awards if you have Silver Elite status or higher as that increases your value both by giving the 5th night free and because resort fees and room tax are waived on award stays.
Data point: We just stayed 5 nights in Lake Como at the Grand Hotel Victoria (SLH). It was 130,000 points a night, 5th night free. 520,000 points total and the room was 1,500 Euro a night. That’s about $8,700 in value (and whatever you think of the cash rate, the hotel is impeccable and perfectly located and that is what it costs!) for 520,000 points. So we got 1.7 cents per Hilton point in value in this case. (Note, I believe that particular hotel is now 170,000 points a night.)
Generally, we value an Amex point at 1.7 cents and a Hilton point at 0.5 cents and while those values are an average, with a 5th night free award you can definitely do well transferring 1,000 Amex points for 2,600 Hilton Honors points as I showed you above.
Our advice is to run some sample searches for potential redemptions to see the value you’re likely to get before transferring. Note that Standard Reward night rates can be as high as 250,000 points / night. That said, at the 30% level is where I personally am comfortable transferring at least some speculatively.
Keep in mind that if you have any Free Reward Night Certificates (valid on any Standard Reward night) which can be earned with a Hilton Honors American Express Aspire Card (each anniversary year and after $30,000 and also after $60,000 spent in a calendar year) or the Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card (earned after $15,000 spent in a calendar year), you can add before or after a 5th night free award for a longer stay.
Get 20% bonus Aeroplan® points when you transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards® points between 12:00 AM ET on August 12, 2026 and 11:59 PM ET on September 30, 2026.
Chase Aeroplan Cardmembers can get up to 30% bonus Aeroplan points (20% from the limited time offer and an extra 10% for being a Cardmember). To get the additional 10% bonus, Chase Aeroplan Cardmembers need to transfer a minimum of 50,000 points or more from Chase Ultimate Rewards® to Aeroplan, up to a maximum of 25,000 bonus Aeroplan points per calendar year.
I suggest reviewing historical transfer bonuses from Chase and American Express to Air Canada Aeroplan as you might find that bonuses are more common than you think. 20% is the “standard” offer we see the most, though Chase did offer a flat 30% in late 2022.
Aeroplan sweet spots: No fuel surcharges; just a $39CAD booking fee. Lap infant just $25CAD. Can book Star Alliance flights as well as partners like Etihad and Emirates. Add a stopover for just 5,000 miles! Award pricing is not necessarily the best there is, but is consistently fair.
A business class award on a partner (not on Air Canada metal as that is dynamically priced) from the East Coast to Europe would be 70,000 points (as an example), which would be 56,000 Chase points with this promotion.
It’s worth noting that Blackstone is taking a minority stake in Aeroplan and private equity investments don’t tend to align with what’s best for the customer, so I’d be extra cautious about speculative transfers here.
Until September 30, 2026, 1,000 Capital One Miles gets you 975 JAL miles with this 30% transfer bonus.
Usually, 1,000 Capital One Miles will get you just 750 JAL miles.
Capital One added JAL Mileage Bank as a partner last September. The transfer ratio is sub-optimal at 2:1.5, but with this offer it is *almost* to 1:1. Keep in mind that you can transfer 1:1 to JAL from both Bilt Rewards and from Rove Miles (if you are new and use this link, you’ll get 1,500 Rove Miles just for signing up).
We have a full guide to JAL Mileage Bank.
I absolutely love JAL Mileage Bank. Just two days ago, I had a tweet go pretty viral about how I used just 42,000 JAL miles and paid $285 in tax for an Air France Business Class flight on their newest product from CDG to JFK when Air France Flying Blue wanted over 90,000 miles + $600 in fees. The guide will also point out that you can get great deals on one way flights but *killer* deals on round trip flights. And of course, if you are skilled you can grab First Class or Business Class on JAL itself at 360 days out (you have to be quick, though!)
Importantly, you cannot transfer points into JAL Mileage Bank from Capital One until your Mileage Bank account has been active for 7 days, so create that account right away whether you have a transfer in mind today or not.
Transfers should be instant.
JAL also offers a Round The World award (appealing now that ANA’s RTW is no more), but note that JAL miles “hard expire” 36 months from the date you earn them.
Need more Capital One Miles? We have 5 cards that earn Capital One Miles here.
Remember that with Capital One cards that earn cash back, you can convert the cash back into transferable miles as long as you have any of the Miles-earning cards.
Get 30% more Avios when you transfer Membership Rewards® points through 9/27/2026.
See historical transfer bonuses to British Airways Avios. 30% is the midpoint of the range.Frequent Avios users with large Membership Rewards balances will probably want to use this to top us.
British Airways Avios used to be best for shorthaul flights on Oneworld carriers but recent changes have killed that. Where a flight from New York to Toronto (under 650 miles) used to be as little as 4,500 miles in years past, it’s now 12,000 miles. I mention this as some people may not realize this has all changed.
However, you can still transfer these miles over to Qatar Airways Avios where that same flight would be 6,000 miles as they price those like this: 0–650 miles: 6,000 Avios (Economy) / 12,500 Avios (Business). Note the new restrictions on booking Qatar awards beyond yourself.
And that’s the thing – you can transfer these Avios to any other Avios program airline.
Also – outside of the US, BA still prices flights under 650 miles (i.e. SYD-MEL on Qantas) at 6,000 miles in Economy and only 12,500 miles in Business – hello, sweet spot!
BA does have a very favorable lap infant policy – 10% of the miles paid for the adult fare.
Beware their draconian surcharges on long haul awards.
Advanced Mode: Transfer to Finnair’s Avios program which has sweet spots like 62,500 Avios and less than $200 from the US to Finland on Finnair and, (available only by phone or chat) amazing deals on AA transcons. If you can find JFK-LAX/SFO with an available Saver seat in 3-Cabin First (Z class), it’s yours for just 40,000 Finnair Avios. Traveling within the EU in business class (yes, the standard economy seat with the middle blocked, but premium services) is also a steal on Finnair. Note those AA three cabin transcontinental flights are being phased out.
This is a nearly 2 month long transfer bonus so you have time to decide…
Reminder: We now maintain an incredibly comprehensive Transfer Partner Matrix that tracks not just where every currency transfers but also notes any current transfer bonuses.
Aer Lingus has some sweet spots as well, like the US to Ireland for 13,000 – 16,250 Avios with no surcharges or 50,000 Avios – 62,500 Avios each way in Business Class. This would be if you find space on Aer Lingus metal. The lower pricing is from the East Coast, the higher is West Coast.
Combinable with other Avios programs like BA on the avios.com website.
That said, generally you want to move your points to British Airways first for the most flexibility – since you can move from there to Finnair, which has some great redemptions, or Qatar – (note new restrictions on booking Qatar awards beyond yourself) – or Iberia.
See this post on the transfer bonus to British Airways Avios for more on the Finnair program.
Reminder: We now maintain an incredibly comprehensive Transfer Partner Matrix that tracks not just where every currency transfers but also notes any current transfer bonuses.
There are identical transfer bonuses on now to both British Airways and Aer Lingus Avios and British Airways are the most common / easy to use and link directly with Qatar so there are few people that would want to transfer to Iberia directly.
They ripped out their award charts in May 2025 and replaced them with new higher ones and the biggest Iberia Sweet Spot of US East Coast to Madrid in business class off peak for 34,000 Avios is now 40,500 Avios and at peak times it’s now 50,000 to 59,000 Avios. This is the 3,001–4,000 mileage band.
This still remains about the only award you would book with Iberia (you may find other instances where Iberia remains cheaper on its own metal) but keep in mind the biggest flaw of the Iberia program:
Award travel on partner airlines booked with Iberia Avios is non-refundable!!
That said, generally you want to move your points to British Airways first for the most flexibility – since you can move from there to Finnair, which has some great redemptions, or Qatar (note new restrictions on booking Qatar awards beyond yourself). I just booked an actual Iberia award and I’ll add that the website is full of glitches that can make booking even an Iberia award on Iberia quite painful.
See this post on the transfer bonus to British Airways Avios for more on the Finnair program.
Reminder: We now maintain an incredibly comprehensive Transfer Partner Matrix that tracks not just where every currency transfers but also notes any current transfer bonuses.
Limited Time Offer: Cardholders with eligible Citi cards can transfer ThankYou Points to Leaders Club and receive 25% bonus points. Offer is valid for Point Transfers to Leaders Club completed by 11:59 PM ET September 19, 2026.
A Leaders Club point is generally worth around 7.75 cents each, although that is a rough average as their hotels are dynamically priced. That gives a value of about 1.55 cents per Citi point at normal transfer rates, since you must transfer 5 Citi ThankYou points to receive one Leaders Club point.
With this bonus, Citi Strata Elite®, Citi Strata Premier®, Prestige®, AT&T Access More Cardmembers get 250 Leaders Club points for 1,000 Citi ThankYou – a 25% bump. Or, put another way, you only need to transfer 4 Citi ThankYou points for 1 Leaders Club point.
Note that transfers from Citi’s No annual fee Thank You cards (like the Citi ThankYou® Preferred, Citi Strata℠ Card, Citi Double Cash® Card, Citi Custom Cash®) transfer at a 1:0.7 rate which would be a rate of 1:0.875 with the 25% bonus – or 175 point per 1,000 ThankYou points transferred.
Using the average of 7.75 cents per Leaders Club point, with the transfer bonus you could expect to extract about 1.90 – 2.0 cents per ThankYou point. That’s not bad at all if you have your eye on a hotel that participates in Leading Hotels of the World.
What’s great about this option is that many LHW hotels are not part of any other loyalty program. However, many are and those could have better redemption options. So check other outlets like any other hotel points programs the hotel may be a part of (i.e. SLH’s own rates vs. Hilton rates) as well as programs like Amex’s Fine Hotels and Resorts before making a decision on this transfer.
This is the 4th Transfer Bonus from Citi ThankYou to LHW Leader’s Club since their transfer partnership began.
For September 1st’s Rent Day, you can get up to a 100% transfer bonus, based on tier and if you spend Bilt Cash on a Buy Up
The maximum Bilt Points that can be transferred and receive a bonus is 150,000 total to Virgin Atlantic and/or Virgin Red.
Redeem for flights starting at 6,000 points. We like using points for domestic Delta flights (when there is availability!) as well as for SkyTeam flights including Air France/KLM and, of course, ANA First and Business Class flights. Virgin’s own flight rewards are dynamically priced but with high surcharges. I’d been seeing a lot of Upper Class seats from 29,000 points but that availability comes and goes and always has hefty surcharges.
ANA First and Business class awards:
(Note that you can book one way for half the price of the points price listed. Also you must call to book these. Find availability on United’s site first. If you see it there, Virgin can usually, but not always, book the same for much less. Also, there have been reports that award availability between the US mainland and Japan isn’t bookable through Flying Club within 14 days of departure.)
Early birds get more points! Get 100% Bonus IHG One Rewards points when you transfer Ultimate Rewards points between 12:00 AM ET on July 15, 2026 and 11:59 PM ET on July 30, 2026.
When the Early Bird offer ends, get 70% Bonus IHG One Rewards points when you transfer Ultimate Rewards points between 12:00 AM ET on July 31, 2026 and 11:59 PM ET on August 31, 2026. Bonus points will be awarded by IHG in your IHG One Rewards account after your transfer is complete.
There have been six transfer bonuses from Chase to IHG One Rewards in 2025 early 2026. One was 100%, two were 80%, and three were 70%.
We value IHG Rewards points at 0.4 cents and Chase Ultimate Rewards at 1.75 cents, so this is far from a slam dunk and we’d advise to only transfer if you’ve already found a great redemption. Even at 100%, you are only getting, on average, 0.8 cents for each Ultimate Rewards point!
You may be looking to “top up” an existing IHG Rewards balance for a reward stay and this would be an opportune time.
But as a general rule, we find that one Chase Ultimate Rewards point is at least 4 times more valuable than IHG Rewards points, so, again, do your homework before transferring and make sure you have a deal lined up – ideally using the 4th night free benefit from a co-branded credit card.
Transfers take less than a day (most likely less than a few hours, but not instant), although note that IHG is adding the bonus on their side so there could be a delay.
This bonus begins on August 1st at 12am ET, lasting until August 31st at 11:59 ET, and is posted on the LifeMiles website here.
We see these quite frequently (See all historical transfer bonuses to Avianca LifeMiles) and I’m going to as unenthusiastic here as always when it comes to fairly small. bonuses to LifeMiles.
Avianca has really been messing with its program lately. They’ve devalued twice in the last 9 months, although in the most recent devaluation all sorts of quirks emerged with pricing. For instance a business class ticket from the US to/from Europe could be 69,000 miles or it could be 80,000 miles.
All of the same issues I’ve always had around Lifemiles customer service remain. I don’t want to ever have to deal with a schedule change than needs a ticket reissued with them again, and sometimes the website shows phantom availability and phone agents are often unable to help after incredibly long hold times.
It’s worth knowing that miles transferred do count towards elite status with Avianca, however it’s not as easy as you’d think. At 20 miles per elite qualifying mile, to get to the Star Alliance Gold equivalent level, you’d need to transfer 480,000 miles and earn 12,000 qualifying miles on Avianca metal flights. So, it’s not easy at all. I guess this would cut.the first part by 15%…
Get 40% extra Miles by converting your ThankYou® Points into Miles&Smiles Miles between August 1 – 30, 2026.
Max 50,000 Bonus Miles, miles credited later.
This bonus is entirely sponsored by Turkish Miles&Smiles and won’t show on the Citi ThankYou transfer partners page. See this page on Turkish Airlines’ website for all details.
Two salient notes: 1) This bonus is sponsored by Turkish, not Citi, and has a maximum of 50,000 Bonus Miles. 2) The terms state the bonus miles won’t appear until after the promotion ends which is the end of August. So while it’s true that a saver award from the US to Turkey on Turkish metal would only be around 47,000 Citi ThankYou points for 65,000 Turkish, it doesn’t quite work that way unless you can wait until early September to book and acknowledge there might not be any inventory. (Note that alert service Thrifty Traveler did flag a ton of 65,000 mile saver inventory just 3 days ago.)
One strategy could be to wait until Aug 31 to transfer (make sure you are subscribed to our free alerts that can be set to notify you two days before the offer ends).
Remember that Turkish miles “hard expire” after 3 years, so speculative transfers are strongly not advised. And they have devalued hard in the last couple of years. Where you used to be able to fly business class to Hawaii for 7,500 miles, the domestic chart now looks like this:
Contiguous US & Alaska Domestic Awards
Hawaii Domestic Awards (From US Mainland)
You must register for the offer or you won’t get the bonus points.
Eligible US transfer partners are American Express, Brex, Capital One, Citi, Bilt, and Wells Fargo.
But this is not such a great promotion, as it’s limited to a max of 10,000 extra miles and you may not get the miles for up to 12 weeks! See below.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
You must register for the offer or you won’t get the bonus points.
Eligible US transfer partners are American Express, Brex, Capital One, Citi, Bilt, and Wells Fargo.
But this is not such a great promotion, as it’s limited to a max of 10,000 extra miles and you may not get the miles for up to 12 weeks! See below.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
You must register for the offer or you won’t get the bonus points.
Eligible US transfer partners are American Express, Brex, Capital One, Citi, Bilt, and Wells Fargo.
But this is not such a great promotion, as it’s limited to a max of 10,000 extra miles and you may not get the miles for up to 12 weeks! See below.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
You must register for the offer or you won’t get the bonus points.
Eligible US transfer partners are American Express, Brex, Capital One, Citi, Bilt, and Wells Fargo.
But this is not such a great promotion, as it’s limited to a max of 10,000 extra miles and you may not get the miles for up to 12 weeks! See below.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
You must register for the offer or you won’t get the bonus points.
Eligible US transfer partners are American Express, Brex, Capital One, Citi, Bilt, and Wells Fargo.
But this is not such a great promotion, as it’s limited to a max of 10,000 extra miles and you may not get the miles for up to 12 weeks! See below.
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Transfer ThankYou Points to Flying Blue Miles and receive a 20% bonus. Offer is valid for points transfers to Flying Blue Miles completed between 12:01 AM ET July 19, 2026, and 11:59 PM ET August 22, 2026.
These oddly timed transfer bonuses are the best reason to subscribe to our transfer bonus alerts, as who is going to remember that a bonus ends on the 22nd of a month? Yet we’ll send you automated reminders at 7 and 2 days to expiration based on your preferences.
As for the bonus itself, we just saw a 25% transfer bonus to Flying Blue from Amex last month and transfer bonuses are not infrequent. The biggest reason to consider to not transfer, though, might be the rumor about Japan Airlines becoming a Citi transfer partner. It’s completely a rumor for now, but if you log into your ThankYou account and go to your profile, the option to link your JAL Mileage Bank account is there, and why would it be there if it wasn’t a partnership in progress?

JAL is a fantastic program and would be huge win for Citi to add to ThankYou, although since becoming transfer partners with Bilt, Rove, and Capital One (they used to not partner with anyone by Marriott Bonvoy for transfers), we have seen availability dry up just a bit. I’m sure JAL will struggle a bit to toe the line between selling their miles and preserving award space availability. (It’s a difficult balance!) Still, if JAL does become a transfer partner, you may be inclined to save your ThankYou points vs. speculatively transfer for 20% bonus miles.
As for this bonus itself?
Flying Blue has some really good award rates at times, though they often fluctuate into the absurd. 60,000 points for Business class to/from Europe from the US is solid, but the surcharges have gotten way out of control (about $600 one way). Sometimes, the pricing is waaaaay over 60,000 points with the same surcharges, so we’d like to see them get this under control and it does make a speculative transfer harder to justify unless you have consistent personal success. With Tiffany Funk (former One Mile at a Time / Point.me) running the Flying Blue loyalty program since June, things are likely to improve. Those things definitely take some time to come to fruition.
Also, while Flying Blue miles expire, it’s a reasonable 24 months and any activity (such as a simple 1,000 point transfer in) will extend it. They used to have archaic rules where flight activity miles weren’t extended with other activity but they came to their senses a few months ago and it’s now simplified with all miles in one pool and all extended by any activity.