American Express Membership Rewards has a new partnership with Emirates and indeed through this Friday they are offering a 25% bonus when you convert Membership Rewards points to Emirates Skywards miles.
To highlight this offer, American Express asked if I would give one lucky reader 25,000 Emirates miles. Sounds good to me!
To be clear, I do not receive anything for running this contest and giving away the miles. But American Express is providing the points.
I covered the transfer bonus when it was first announced, along with the launch of the relationship between American Express and Emirates. See this post for more details on the ins and outs of booking awards through Emirates Skywards.
The transfer bonus makes a business class roundtrip New York JFK – Dubai, normally 145,000 points, just 116,000 Membership Rewards points. And it makes a business class roundtrip New York JFK – Milan, normally 90,000 points, just 72,000 Membership Rewards points. Which — even with fuel surcharges — seems quite reasonable.
Here’s how to win
- Leave a comment on this post, answering the question “Where would you go if you had a head start with 25K Emirates Skywards Miles?”
- Enter no more than one time per day (loosely defined, either as 24 hour or calendar day).
- Contest closes 8pm Eastern time on Thursday, so that I can announce the winner on Friday — the same day that the transfer bonus ends.
- All decisions, actions, and interpretations are mine, not subject to appeal, and you agree by entering that I have no liability for the manner in which the contest is run. In other words, don’t give me a hard time when I’m trying to give away miles, thank you!
So.. check out the transfer bonus, and let me know in the comments Where would you go if you had a head start with 25K Emirates Skywards Miles?
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Cape Town, South Africa
LAX-DXB in F
Maldives
Maldives would be nice.
I’d head to Dubai
I’d head straight to Australia! Been wanting to go for so long now!
I’d head to Dubai to visit some good friends who are moving there shortly
I’d check out Dubai
Algiers!
I’d go to the Maldives!
Maldives
Cape Town
South Africa
Dubai!
The Maldives!
I’d love to fly JFK to Milan!
Dubai
Dubai.
Dubai to get on the Regent Seven Seas Voyager
Maldives
amman, jordan.
Dubai, of course. Never been and definitely want to go!
VCE via DXB in F of course.
Entebbe
Stockholm and then off to Russia!
Want to fly in First class to Dubai
Sydney…Is it enough ? 🙂
Milan, then Venice!
I’d head to India to visit my relatives!
My wife wants to go to Italy so I would go to Milan.
Maldives baby!
I would use the miles to fly home to Uganda 🙂
Maldives, Dubai, Seychelles! What a trip of a life that would be!
I would use the 25,000 miles to jump start a trip to Dubai and then to Sydney.
this would def help in getting me to Dubai!
Maldives
Dubai
milan!
Abu Dhabi for next November for Formula One racing!
i think New Zealand – one place i haven’t been yet but would LOVE to go to.
Dubai perhaps.
Could be useful in getting to MLE.
Dubai.
I would go to Dubai
MRU Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport
England.
I would go anywhere on an a3800 1st class to try those showers! How about BKK
Dubai for me
Dubai would be my choice. Thanks, Gary.
Shanghai