From now until September 22nd, you’ll get 1,300 Avios for every 1,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points you transfer.
British Airways Avios are traditionally best used on short haul flights on oneworld carriers like American, (because of high rates and surcharges on long haul premium cabin awards) – however, now that you can use these to book Qatar QSuites via linking your BA and Qatar accounts, you may well find this to be quite worth while if you locate QSuite availability on dates that work for you or know you can be flexible in the future.
Iberia has an East Coast to Madrid (MAD) Sweet Spot) and Aer Lingus has a sweet spot from the Eastern US to DUB.
Thoughts?
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I am highly considering taking advantage of this deal. I know people always say, don’t transfer points unless you have a need for them right way but considering that soon there will be 5 airlines that use Avios I may dump all my Chase points (75k) into Avios and take the 30% bonus now. If I were to do the norm and wait until I need to book something there may not be a transfer bonus at that time plus I don’t stay at Hyatt or fly on United or Southwest. What else would I use the points for, why should I not do it! I have several hundred thousand Amex and Citi points and they transfer to most of the same partners.