Good afternoon everyone. I dreamed this up a few days ago and thought it was worth sharing to see if anyone else would find this feature useful. If you guys like this idea, I will share it with my friends Howie and Alexi at Award Wallet (sign up for your free Award Wallet account here). Here is an example use case: I needed to book a Singapore Airlines (SQ) award ticket for travel on United Airlines (UA). I needed 35,000 SQ miles, but only had 744 SQ miles in my account. Luckily, I have plenty of transferable point currencies, so I decided to transfer 25,000 Citi Thank You Points and 10,000 American Express Membership Reward Points to my Singapore Airlines account. As I wrote in July 2015, transfer times from Chase UR, Citi TYP, AMEX MR, and SPG to SQ are not instant – most take ~24 hours to complete.
With that said, I made the transfers from Citi Thank You Points and American Express Membership Reward Points and then occasionally checked Award Wallet to see if the SQ miles posted. Insert cheesy infomercial “THERE HAS GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY!” Here is what the process currently looks like:
