Article: Marriott Ends Bonus Points on Transfers to 3 Airlines

[AFF Editor]

Marriott Ends Bonus Points on Transfers to 3 Airlines is an article written by AFF editorial staff:

Marriott Ends Bonus Points on Transfers to 3 Airlines

From 31 October 2022, the 25% bonus will no longer apply to transfers from Marriott Bonvoy to Delta SkyMiles, American AAdvantage or LifeMiles.

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[Kremmen]

I made transfers to AA back in the SPG days (during bonus offers), but that is apparently insufficient for them to send me this notification email.

 

[NM]

I cannot find any reference to this in recent emails received from Marriott Bonvoy. My last points transfer from Marriott to AAdvantage was over two years ago, so perhaps I was not flagged as being a previous transferee. So I am very glad I saw this mentioned here on AFF. I have been holding points in Marriott for a while, keeping my options open with what to do with them. My intention was always to launder them to AAdvantage, but once they are sent to AAdvantage there they must remain until redeemed. So holding them in Marriott gave me some flexibility just in case a new reason came along to send them elsewhere, or perhaps even to use for Marriott stays.

So yesterday I send the maximum daily transfer limit of 240K from Bonvoy to AAdvantage, and today I sent a further 60K, leaving me a Marriott balance of under 60K. So the total of 300K Marriott points launders to 125K AAdvantage miles with the 5 x 5K bonus miles.

The first batch of 100K AAdvantage miles have already hit my account, and I expect the final 25K will be follow tomorrow. So that will give me just over 400K AAdvantage miles and resets my expiry to October 2024, which I hope will be redeemed for premium cabin flights in the next few years.