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 or Turkey!
Istanbul would be coool
I would take my wife to the Maldives when she graduates with her MBA next Summer.
Dubai
Venice!
I would go to DXB and then head to MLE
Hong Kong!
Dubai
Dubai……. I am coming!
JFK-DXB-MRU in F! Thanks for the new 380 service to MRU!
Maldives
Dubai
Milan
An interesting option to Milan
Definitely Maldives via Dubai
Tehran!!
Milan
Mom is 83 and has always wanted to go to “arabia”. Let’s go to Dubai Mom!
Maldivers
Dubai
Anywhere on an Emirates A380
Dubai or Mumbai
go to HEL*
*place my ex-wife constantly tells me to visit 😉
Athens first choice but anywhere would be wonderful
Athens sounds great!
I’ve been wanting to visit Bangkok.
I’d use it towards my upcoming honeymoon in Asia and Australia!
Hong Kong sounds interesting.
Mumbai
Dubai please!
Milan
Think I’d go for Hong Kong
Rome
Aukland
London
Dubai!
I would go to Dubai on the A380
Dubai por favor 😀
I’ll head to Milan
Yes, Dubai!
Dubai on the A380
I’d still go to the Maldives. 2015?
Dubai would be the place to go of course
Singapore
I would like to travel to Maldives.
Seychelles
HAPPY TO GO ANYWHERE
Always wanted ti visit middle east
Maldives
We would fly to Adelaide to meet our new friends from our last great vacation, and then onto Auckland for several days on the way back. They flew with Emirates and regaled us with stories of the service and showers. Please Please pick us!!!!!