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Choice Points Post – How to Transfer to AA / AS / DL / UA / US / SWA

Choice Transfers

(If you are planning on transferring Choice Privileges Points to Southwest Airlines, you need to read this post.)

Choice Points Post – How to Transfer to American, Alaska, Delta, United, US Airways, and Southwest

This is a follow-up post to my previous post Why did I Buy 144,000 Choice Privileges Points for $550? which is a follow-up post to Today Only!  Buy SWA Points for 1.3 cpm and American / Alaska / United / US Airways / Delta miles for 1.87 cpm.

I purchased the Choice Privileges Points on June 27 and have been waiting patiently for the points to show up in my Choice Privileges account.  After refreshing my Award Wallet balances (read What is Award Wallet?), I was glad to see that the points had finally posted, all 144,000 of them.  BTW, I did not receive an email from the US Travel Association or Choice Hotels alerting me of the point transfer.

Choice 114K

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A Million Thanks to Million Mile Secrets

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A Million Thanks to Million Mile Secrets

I want to thank Daraius from Million Mile Secrets for featuring me on his Friday morning “Big Travel with Small Money” series.  I have been a long time reader of his site and enjoy reading his articles every day.  I have had the pleasure to speak with Emily a few times and get a picture with her at the Frequent Traveler University in Tyson’s Corner, VA a few months back.  I highly recommend you guys check it out.  The next event is in Tampa, FL from September 27-29 (details here).

Emily and Grant

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Vancouver Vacation: Redeem American Airline Miles for Alaska Airline Seats

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The title is a blatant rip-off of the Chevy Chase “Vegas Vacation” movie, but I do love a good alliterative title every now and then.

I was helping my dad find flights from Orange County, CA (SNA) to Vancouver, BC (YVR) sometime in July for our annual family vacation.  Between myself, my mom, and my dad, we have thousands of United Airline miles, American Airline miles, and British Airways Avios.

By using a combination of AA.com and AlaskaAir.com, I was able to find 4 award seats on the same flight.  Since the flights are on Alaska Airlines, I went to AlaskaAir,com first to search for the award seats.  You don’t need to have any Alaska Airline miles to search for award seats.

Alaska Award Flight

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