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What this site is
- A tool for revealing partnerships among travel rewards programs. It details earning, redemption, and transfer compatibilities of points/miles among popular hotel, airline, and travel credit card rewards programs.
- Focused in purpose - The site simply outputs valid travel rewards results for your specific travel rewards requests concerning the earning, redemption, and transfer/conversion of points and/or miles.
- Thorough and accurate - Although travel rewards program relationships are ever-changing and it is common to find outdated information even on the rewards program websites, the database powering this website has been (and will continue to be) carefully populated and scrutinized. All major airlines and hotels are represented.
What this site is not
- A travel blog, a travel rewards review site, a guide to "travel hacking."
- A site for those new to travel rewards - This website is intended to be a tool for those with at least a cursory knowledge of the earning, redemption, and transfer of points/miles in and between travel rewards programs. Some guidance is provided in the output notes. However, in general, understanding and use of the results is up to you. If you are new to Travel Rewards or seeking advice on travel rewards strategy, I highly recommend the following websites. These continue to be invaluable resources to me.
- Crowded, convoluted, multi-purpose, colorful - I am not a programmer, graphic design artist, writer, or UX expert so the content here looks like, well, the contents of a database. As Leonardo da Vinci said, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Who I am
- A traveler who, upon first entering the chaotic world of travel rewards, could find no single source to use for planning my points/miles accumulation strategy. I had many questions, like:
- Which airline rewards program should be my primary?
- Which hotels permit earning of my primary airlines miles?
- Can I transfer this hotel's points to my primary airline?
- Which airlines are partnered with my travel credit card rewards program?
Finding answers to these and other questions required gathering copious and scattered partnership data, a process I found to be unnecessarily (but, I believe, purposefully) complex and time-intensive. So, I began recording and compiling the data as I did my research with the hope that it would help me and my fellow travelers in their future travel rewards endeavors.
- A rookie web developer - The last real coding I did was applying the fundamentals I learned in my 1992 FORTRAN class toward development of a Visual Basic app in 1996. If any of you real coders out there want a good laugh, check out the source code behind this site.
Notes
- Restrictions apply for many points/miles earning, transfers, and redemptions so always review the travel rewards club website for latest information.
- Rewards club partnerships change fairly frequently so review the rewards club websites for latest information
- Sometimes, the rewards program relationship information on an airline rewards site conflicts with that on the related hotel rewards site. For example, Choice Privileges lists Air New Zealand-Airpoints as an airline partner but the Airpoints hotel partners webpage does not list Choice Privileges as a hotel partner. I point out these discrepancies where found and am continually working on resolving them with the providers, but be aware they exist and always verify at the sources.
- This tool is strict with its definitions of "Redeem" and "Transfer." "Redeem" means to actually spend points/miles for a service, e.g., a flight or a hotel stay, whether directly with the hotel/airline or thorough an associated travel portal. "Transfer" or "Convert" means to move points/miles from one rewards program to another. Some programs label this transfer as a redemption but this tool considers it a transfer. For example, one can redeem American Express Membership Rewards for a flight via the American Express travel portal but can also transfer Membership Rewards points to an airline program where they can then be redeemed for a flight.
- Dropdown selections involving Airlines show the US Airlines at top followed by foreign airlines in alphabetical order. Output tables containing airline info, however, intermix US and foreign airlines, all listed alphabetically.
- Only US Credit Cards that offer travel rewards are included in the database. Foreign travel credit cards, cash-back credit cards, etc. are not included.
- I am always contemplating new queries that I believe will be useful so check back often. I may also soon add in Car Rental Rewards partnership data. If you have a particular query you'd like to see here, drop me a line!
- The database includes the most popular hotel and airlines but I am always adding more content. If you have a suggested addition, whether hotel or airline, drop me a line!
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