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35% bonus to convert Marriott points to AA miles

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Convert Your Hotel Points Into AAdvantage® miles
and Earn Up To 35% Bonus Miles Towards Your Next Trip
Now through June 30, 2010 you have a unique opportunity to convert your
hotel points into American Airlines AAdvantage® miles and earn a bonus on
the amount of AAdvantage miles you receive from the conversion.

Earn a bonus of:
When you convert hotel points to:
25%
1,000 - 20,000 AAdvantage miles
35%
More than 20,000 AAdvantage miles

For example, convert your points into 20,000 AAdvantage miles and earn
5,000 bonus miles from American Airlines to have enough for a round-trip
flight award. Convert your points into 40,000 AAdvantage miles and you'll
earn 14,000 bonus miles from American Airlines.
Click to learn which AAdvantage program
participant hotels offer point conversions

I just got the email from AA. It looks like you can't do it with the air/hotel packages. Also bonus miles don't count toward lifetime status. This is being discussed on flyertalk.

I am very upset about the ending of the AA/Marriott relationship. AA is the only airline we have at our airport. I sure hope they will reconsider one day.
 
I hope this isn't a targeted promo as I could really take advantage of this offer. Do they suggest a limit to the amount of extra miles? I have 375k Marriott points. I was going to do the travel package for a cat 8 and 120k miles but for the same I could get 150k miles (50k per 125k MAR points) plus the 35% would be a better value than the travel package in my book.
 
I didn't see anything about a travel package not being eligible for the bonus. I thought Marriott transferred the point to AA and AA doesn't really know whether they are in conjunction with a package or not.
 
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Quick question: if I convert 125,000 Marriott points to AA I figure it as 67,500 miles. Did I do that correctly?

I'm not sure I want to do that since UA to Hawaii and BA to Europe out of Chicago might work better for us especially as a travel package.In any case we can put the miles in BA and then use them for AA.
 
I think this promo is only beneficial to the folks who have more points than the travel packages or those that have no need for the reservation that comes with the travel package.
 
Quick question: if I convert 125,000 Marriott points to AA I figure it as 67,500 miles. Did I do that correctly?

I'm not sure I want to do that since UA to Hawaii and BA to Europe out of Chicago might work better for us especially as a travel package.In any case we can put the miles in BA and then use them for AA.

Calc sounds right.

BTW, another consideration is compare how many miles it takes to get somewhere. For ex (from memory, so exact amts could be a little off) from SFO to LIH (Kauai) in early Nov, AA costs like 40k miles, but UA costs like 45k. To Paris from SFO (in Nov), AA uses 40k; UA uses 50k.
 
Does anyone know how long the miles are good for with American Airlines? Marriott points are good forever, but air miles usually expire in so many years.

Also, how's the financial health of American Airlines? Will some type of disaster cause AA to go belly up? Hate to convert points to miles and be unable to use them....
 
Does anyone know how long the miles are good for with American Airlines? Marriott points are good forever, but air miles usually expire in so many years.

Also, how's the financial health of American Airlines? Will some type of disaster cause AA to go belly up? Hate to convert points to miles and be unable to use them....

They are good for 18 months but you can reset the counter by having some activity in the account, either by flying, dining, rental cars, shopping, etc.

I never make stock recommendations on a public board but I can tell you that when TWA went belly up AA bought them out of bankruptcy and I got AA miles 1 for 1 for my TWA miles.
 
Thanks Winger, but the number of AA miles needed differs depending on the day of the week and the week itself. I just looked at AA, and is better to Kauai than United from Chicago.
 
This promo is being discussed on FlyerTalk, in several forums. There is a thread in the AA forum, the Marriott forum, and the Starwood forum.

The address for the thread in the Marriott forum is:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marr...ld-transfer-aa-up-35-bonus-thru-6-30-a-3.html

Starwood forum:
[/url]http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/starwood-preferred-guest/1095477-promo-move-spg-points-aa-25-35-bonus-thru-june-30-a.html[/url]

AA forum:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...5-35-bonus-miles-hotel-point-transfers-5.html

The AAdvantage rep who posts in the AA forum on FT added this info in post #65:
Several more good questions have been raised – here are the answers:

-The bonus miles only apply to point-to-mile conversions. Hotel stays and travel packages are easily distinguishable when they come to us for posting and they are not eligible for this promotion. And when they come to us for posting it's by "transaction date" not "posting date."

-For all conversions from SPG, the AAdvantage bonus will apply to the total number of miles posted (so, for example, redeem 20,000 SPG points for 25,000 AAdvantage miles, and you will receive AAdvantage bonus miles on the full 25,000 miles credited in the original transaction).

-This bonus is coming from the AAdvantage program, and not our hotel participants, so we don’t expect their representatives to be able to answer any questions about it. The point-to-mile conversion must be initiated through the hotel participant – it’s the bonus piece that’s strictly an AA-based initiative. All bonus miles posted by AA will be in your account approximately 7 business days after the original conversion transaction has posted.

-You can convert with as many hotels as you want and will get the bonus on each one. We do not allow the combining of transactions in order to reach a certain threshold. If you do one conversion to get 40K AAdvantage miles, then you get a 35% bonus. If you transact twice to get 20K miles each time, you will only get the 25% bonus on each conversion.
 
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error - see below
 
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-You can convert with as many hotels as you want and will get the bonus on each one. We do not allow the combining of transactions in order to reach a certain threshold. If you do one conversion to get 40K AAdvantage miles, then you get a 35% bonus. If you transact twice to get 20K miles each time, you will only get the 25% bonus on each conversion.
Ah, that explains the confusion over whether or not you can transfer multiple times.
 
Doesn't sound like this effects that travel packages- in other words, we should still be able to use our points for travel packages with 120K miles in AA. Am I correct? I would hate to think that we will no longer be able to use the packages for miles at AA. I think AA's program is the best for us.
 
AA miles

I believe both types of program transfers(travel package and purchase of miles only) from Marriott reward pts. to AA miles cease on June 30th.
 
The AA announcement I got specifically says the following:

We would like to provide you with a reminder of an important update to the American Airlines AAdvantage® program. Effective July 1, 2010, the Marriott Rewards program will no longer offer AAdvantage miles for stays at Marriott hotels.

All qualifying stays at participating properties completed by June 30, 2010
will be eligible to earn AAdvantage miles. It is also important to note the final date to convert your Marriott Rewards points to AAdvantage miles will be
June 30, 2010.

As an AAdvantage member you have access to an extensive network of hotels where you can earn AAdvantage miles, including 60 brands in over 100 countries. For a limited time, visit the AAdvantage® ConnectionsSM Web site for a list of our special hotel offers.

We appreciate your loyalty to American Airlines and the AAdvantage program.

This would suggest that it doesn't effect the travel packages (I assumed the pts to miles is a direct transfer, not package related), but I could be wrong. Anyone have anything more definitive?
 
The AA announcement I got specifically says the following:



This would suggest that it doesn't effect the travel packages (I assumed the pts to miles is a direct transfer, not package related), but I could be wrong. Anyone have anything more definitive?

I am pretty sure from posts #4 and #11 above that miles from air/hotel travel packages are NOT eligible for the bonus miles; but, miles from direct MR to AA are eligible.
 
I don't know why travel packages would be excluded as I don't know how they impact AA, but it would appear they are.

My internal struggle is what is more valuable to me, the extra 110.2K miles I can get or a cat 8 cert. I'm leaning towards the cert but I've never used one and don't have an immediate plan for it.
 
I don't know why travel packages would be excluded as I don't know how they impact AA, but it would appear they are.

My internal struggle is what is more valuable to me, the extra 110.2K miles I can get or a cat 8 cert. I'm leaning towards the cert but I've never used one and don't have an immediate plan for it.

I am thinking maybe the $price AA gets for miles from air/hotel travel package is less than for a straight MRP-for-AA miles conversion. Again, in a capitalistic world, often the bottom line drives decisions (even to extreme cases like BP or Enron) .
 
I don't know why travel packages would be excluded as I don't know how they impact AA, but it would appear they are.

My internal struggle is what is more valuable to me, the extra 110.2K miles I can get or a cat 8 cert. I'm leaning towards the cert but I've never used one and don't have an immediate plan for it.

I am struggling with the same right now as I have nearly 450k points. The biggest reason I started holding them is due to the change in policy of no longer being able to extend a hotel week purchased w/a package. Because this needs to be used w/in a 12 month period, I figured I'd just wait. Last year I ended up trading the hotel portion back in because I was able to trade (Grand Vista) into KoOlina.

But now what? So far I have always flown A/A to Hawaii so it's obviously time to cash in. I too am tossed between a cat 6 cert vs. just airline miles.

Just out of curiousity and of course you don't have to answer, but are you planning on visiting one of the less than 10 hotels that are a cat 8? If so, then that's probably the way to go due to cost. I'm looking at cat 6 cause that's what Marriott's Wailea is which will be my 2nd week back-up in Maui in case I can't trade in.

ileneg

I am hopeful that after a year, maybe less, that A/A and Marriott will work it out...:cheer:
 
So confused. OK. I transfer miles to AA and get tickets to Hawaii. I used my Marriott points to get a hotel certificate at a Hawaiian hotel. Two separate transactions with two separate companies. No problem? Right?
 
So confused. OK. I transfer miles to AA and get tickets to Hawaii. I used my Marriott points to get a hotel certificate at a Hawaiian hotel. Two separate transactions with two separate companies. No problem? Right?


Yes and no. I believe you may be missing the piece to the puzzle that Marriott and American Airlines are severing ties as of June 30, 2010.

ileneg
 
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