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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And I’d try to do a DOH BAH DOH just for fun.
New Delhi and into Rajasthan. India sounds like such a fascinating country and there’s something funnily ironic about flying there in style to then rough it a bit in the places I want to go…
MLE routed through DXB for sure
Maldives
I would go to Dubai
These miles would help with tix to the Maldives.
The Maldives would be a nice destination.
India
India
Any route on Emirates A380 First Class 🙂
Quite useful in getting to MLE one day
South Africa
To Male 🙂
go to HEL*
*place my ex-wifey insists I visit 😉
Dubai sounds awesome!
I would use it to fly to Dubai and then to MLE.
Zimbabwe
Dubai to visit some good friends
The moon, ok well thats not feasible….so Normandy Beach to visit the fellow Soldiers.
Dubai, Mrs Sice was there in the mid 90s, time for her to go back and see how the city has changed!
That’d be a good start on a trip to Australia…
I’d go to India!
Milan
Maldives!
Dubai
Tehran!
Milan. Thanks for the contest!
milan
Still MIlan!
Milan!
Milan sounds the best 😀
Berlin!
Milan for sure
Dubai def.
Milan
Milan!
Maldives
Dubai would be nice
Ethiopia!
i’d use them to go to Kuala Lumpur
Can’t really go anywhere with 25K miles
DXB would be great!
Dubai
Maldives, please!
I’d use 25,000 miles to top up a balance needed for a one-class upgrade DXB-Europe!
Dubai!
NBO!
I would love to cross the Maldives off my bucket list before it disappears into the Indian Ocean.
Dubai