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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Dubai
dubai would be fun!
MXP, probably! …or maldives…
Still home for me!
Entebbe, Uganda, for gorilla tracking.
To Milan
Dubai of course~
Maldives over-water bungalows please!
Milan for the fashion week!
I would go to Auckland!
Dubai
The Seychelles!
i’ll throw in a vote for dubai as well.
Dubai for me, Gary. Thanks.
Maybe the Maldives.
Dubai
Perhaps inch closer to MLE.
I’d go to Milan.
Italy!!
I would fly to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – eat from food stalls, ride on the back of a motorbike, and run around in the afternoon rain.
I’d LOVE to go to Dubai and put the miles towards a 1st class redemption as a dream trip!
Dubai is the place to go!
I would go in a westward direction and visit as many cities as I could going in one direction.
Crete!
Athens!!
MLE, baby!!
Maldives… So i can finally learn to swim
Dubai!
dubai of course
Dubai 🙂
Maldives
Maldives
Shanghai
The Maldives would be awesome!
First class suite redemption somewhere they fly.
It’s still Dubai!
Maldives for sure!
Dubai!
I would go to Dubai, many thanks!
I would throw a dart on a map, and if EK flies there -i’ll use to miles towards the booking.
A beach
Milan
I would go to Dubai!
Cape Town would be a great destination.
I’d fly the world’s THIRD longest commercial flight, from my hometown of Los Angeles, to Dubai on the A380. 16 hours and 30 minutes of top notch service!
Round trip to Dubai from PVG
Amman!
I’d go to Dubai!
Dubai
I’d take the kid to Milan.