Maximize Your Points with Transfer Bonus Alerts

Let’s just get it out of the way – it’s odd that this bonus is starting on the 16th of March and ending on the 12th of April. Luckily, since you are subscribed to Transfer Bonus Alerts, you can get notified 7 and/or 2 days before that odd expiration date!

Next, this bonus is being offered directly by Citi, so you can see it in the usual place in your ThankYou account (I always prefer that to the ones sponsored by the airline directly where the bonus may or may not be instant).

It’s 25%, so it’s not too shabby, although Citi made the same offer back last October (you can see all historical bonuses to Avianca Lifemiles from all issuers here). Many recent transfer bonuses from other credit card currencies have been just 15%.

This transfer bonus is being run on the Qatar side, so you will not see the bonus offer on the Citi ThankYou website. 

This bonus offer is valid for Point Transfers completed between 02/16/25 12:01 AM ET and 03/15/25 11:59 PM ET

Terms and Conditions for Citi Strata Premier™, Citi Prestige®, AT&T Access More Cardholders in the US:

• For the Avios Points promotional offer, you will receive 1.2 Avios for every 1 ThankYou Point transferred during the promotional period listed above. The normal conversion rate is 1 Avios for every 1 ThankYou Point transferred. For example, if you transfer 1,000 ThankYou Points, you will receive a total of 1,200 Avios.

Transfer ThankYou Points to Wyndham Rewards and receive a 20% Bonus in Wyndham Rewards points. Offer is valid for Point Transfers to Wyndham Rewards completed by 11:59 PM ET November 16, 2024.

That means that Citi Strata Premier and Citi Prestige cardholders get a 1,200 Wyndham points for 1,000 Citi while Citi ThankYou^® Preferred, Citi Rewards+^®, Sears Mastercard, Citi Double Cash^®, AT&T Universal Rewards World, AT&T Universal Savings and Rewards, AT&T Universal Rewards, AT&T Points Plus^SM Card from Citi or AT&T Access Card Cardmembers get 960 Wyndham points for every 1,000 Citi points transferred.

(Wyndham is one of the few programs the no fee ThankYou cards can transfer to without having a Premier or Prestige, but note the lackluster transfer ratio.)

Also note that Citi ran the same transfer bonus this summer.

Transfer ThankYou Points to Virgin Flying Club or Virgin Red and receive a 30% Bonus in Virgin Points. Offer is valid for Point Transfers to Virgin Points completed by 11:59 PM ET November 16, 2024.

Note that there is currently a 40% transfer bonus from Chase to Virgin Atlantic until Nov 30,. 2024.

CAVEAT: Beginning October 30th, 2024, Virgin Flying Club will move to a dynamic pricing for awards. Historically this has never been good news as higher priced times that you would get higher value from awards become more expensive with points. If you are transferring during the first two weeks of this bonus, you have time before the switch. We aren’t 100% sure if the dynamic pricing will apply only to Virgin metal awards or a wider swath of awards.

Virgin Atlantic transfer bonuses are fairly frequent between various programs. See historical transfer bonuses to Virgin Atlantic here. Excluding Bilt’s one-day 100% bonus on Sept 1st, other bonuses this year have been 30% except for the current 40% bonus from Chase.

Best Uses of Virgin Flying Club points:

This is on the Qatar website. It’s a 25% bonus plus you earn an extra 10,000 bonus Avios for every 100,000 Avios collected per conversion with participating partners. Citi is the only participating partner in the US.

Remember that Qatar Avios has become competitive and inline with other Avois partners. It’s always worth checking whether one or another Avois partner (i.e. British Airways, Iberia, or Aer Lingus) has a better redemption price since you can freely move between them. You can even connect your British Airways account directly inside Qatar’s website for easy and instant transfer.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Qatar has devalued their own program twice in recent months, first significantly raising the pricing for AA and Alaska awards, then by adding significant new surcharges on long haul premium awards by almost 200%.

How it works:

• Transfer 1000 to 9,999 miles and get 20% Bonus Miles on each transaction
• Transfer 10,000 to 49,999 miles and get 30% Bonus Miles on each transaction
• Transfer 50,000 miles and above and get 40% Bonus Miles on each transaction

This transfer bonus is sponsored by Etihad so you won’t see it on the Citi website.

Read all terms and conditions here:

https://www.etihadguest.com/en/earn-miles/transfer-points-to-miles-global.html

Remember that Etihad Guest recently devalued and miles expire after 1.5 years. We advise against a speculative transfer.

A Leaders Club point is generally worth around 7.75 cents each, although that is a rough average as their hotels are dynamically prices. 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.

(The stated standard transfer ratio is 1,000 Citi ThankYou for 200 Leaders Club points.)

With this bonus, you’ll 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.

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.

Avianca Lifemiles runs VERY frequent transfer bonuses. Want to see a history? Here’s the last NINETEEN transfer bonuses to Avianca Lifemiles since mid-2022. They generally range from 10% to 25%.

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

Keep in mind that Avianca just devalued their program.

Also see: Downsides of LifeMiles program.

Citi Strata Premier and Citi Prestige cardholders (the only cards in the ThankYou program that enable transferable points) can get a 20% bonus when transferring their ThankYou points to Wyndham Rewards.

Wyndham isn’t a super popular program on its own, but there is value to be found.

Flying Blue rates are variable, so run a search before transferring. When you get lucky, business class from the US to Europe can run as low as just 50,000 Flying Blue miles. That would be just 40,000 Citi ThankYou points during this promotion!

Flying Blue is the best way to book Virgin Atlantic Upper Class from the US to Europe and beyond, due to the lowest taxes of any way to book Virgin Atlantic. It can also book Delta, KLM, and other SkyTeam members.

Transfers should be instant.