Credit Card Transfer Bonuses for August 2026 (Plus Our Famous Alerts)

Typically, the main use of EVA Air miles are to book business class awards on EVA. These are not released to partners, most of the time, although it’s been flagged by Tim @ Roame.travel that they have recently been making some available to partners 7 days before the flight. Still, if you want to advance plan, you need EVA miles.

It can take up to 36 hours for the transfer to go through, so you can’t find space and then transfer, but there is really good award space for its own members so as long as you have some flexibility, you should be able to find a flight.

They do offer Star Alliance Round the World awards and with ANA no longer offering their really generous RTW award, this could be a nice option. These are 180,000 miles for economy, 325,000 miles for business class, and 480,000 miles in first class, although good luck finding 1st award space for that many segments!

While you can book other Star Alliance awards with EVA (like US to Europe in Business Class for 65,000 miles), the prices aren’t compelling enough to use EVA for them, especially without instant transfers. Surcharges are applied.

The first thing you’ll want to see is the Qantas award chart as prices rose, significantly in some cases, in August of 2024. There are actually multiple charts: One for Qantas, Jetstar, Fiji Airways, Air Vanuatu, and American Airlines and another for Air France, Alaska Airlines, Bangkok Airways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, China Airlines, China Eastern, EL AL, Emirates, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, KLM, LATAM Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Oman Air, Qatar Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Royal Jordanian, SriLankan Airlines and WestJet.

And then there’s yet another for mixed oneworld awards.

The Qantas frequent flyer program tends to have very expensive rates, however, there are often times that they make First and Business Class seats from the US to Australia available with Qantas Frequent Flyer and not with partners. You may also find expanded availability with other partners – you’ll have to search but happily their search interface is pretty easy to use and provides calendar views.

You can also book Emirates Business class flights with Qantas. Compare against the Emirates Skywards program before transferring.

Don’t forget to check surcharges!

We have a full guide to JAL Mileage Bank. Unfortunately the JetBlue partnership ended yesterday and that was a great one. In almost all cases, you will save substantially when booking a round trip on JAL partners / oneworld.

Importantly, you cannot transfer points into JAL Mileage Bank 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 does offer 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.

When Bilt added JAL as a transfer partner back in May, we wrote an extensive guide to JAL. If you aren’t familiar with JAL (and most aren’t), check out that guide to JAL Mileage Bank. I would say the absolute best use of JAL from now until March 31st would be the JetBlue partnership valid until March 31st.

Importantly, you cannot transfer points into JAL Mileage Bank 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 does offer 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.

Avianca is a Star Alliance partner that does not pass along fuel surcharges, however:

Keep in mind that Avianca recently devalued their program. Also see: Downsides of the LifeMiles program.

With frequent website issues, terrible customer support, and change/cancel fees of up to $200 a ticket, it’s just not for me. By comparison, Aeroplan also does not pass along surcharges (nor does United) and both are much easier to deal with.

At a mere 15%, I cannot see a case for the transfer unless you were literally about to make a Lifemiles booking anyway.

One exception might be *possibly* be if you only have Capital One miles and no other transferable points – although the last transfer bonus from Capital One miles to Avianca Lifemiles was just 6 months ago in mid-2025.

See all historical transfer bonuses.

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.

However, you can still transfer these miles over to Qatar Airways Avios where that same flight would be 6,000 miles. 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.

BA does have a very favorable lap infant policy – 10% of the miles paid for the adult fare. But beware of 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.

Avianca is a Star Alliance partner that does not pass along fuel surcharges, however:

Keep in mind that Avianca recently devalued their program. Also see: Downsides of the LifeMiles program.

With frequent website issues, terrible customer support, and change/cancel fees of up to $200 a ticket, it’s just not for me. Aeroplan also does not pass along surcharges (nor does United) and both are much easier to deal with.

At a mere 15%, I cannot see a case for the transfer unless you were literally about to make a Lifemiles booking anyway.

One exception might be *possibly* be if you only have Capital One miles and no other transferable points – as the last transfer bonus from Capital One miles to Avianca Lifemiles was in mid-2023.

See all historical transfer bonuses.