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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Maldives……..
Milan.
I need one way between MLE-CMB so it seems like a good way to use 25,000 Emirates miles.
I would like to go to Dubai
Go to Milan
Dubai
Dubai first, then on to somewhere else.
Dubai!!
Home for Christmas!
Easy answer for me…F class JFK-DXB on the A380 and then continue on to the Maldives.
Maldives
I would be off to Dubai for sure.
I would go to India to see my 96-year-old grandmother!
Definitely Dubai!
Milan 🙂
I would like a head start to Perth.
Dubai
Milan
Dubai
Maldives would be awesome!
Abu Dhabi, for sure!
Always wanted to go to Dubai.
Dubai!!!
JFK-Dubai Suite Please!
I would use them for travel to my next IC stay on Pointbreaks !
I want to head to Dubai
I would go and visit Dubai!
Dubai!
I would use them toward my next trip home to Uganda!
Dubai
Dubai, of course!!
Dubai…
Dubai
Milan
Dubai, and then onto the Maldives!
Would certainly shoot for a trip in Dubai!
NYC-Milan
Milan
Dubai and the Seychelles
Milan!
NYC > Milan
a380 first class!
Dubai. Oh to see the Burj Khalifa!
Milan – JFK to kick off my RTW oneworld ticket ex-JFK in style!
India to visit my family!
I will go to Dubai
Sydney to New Zealand A380 first class
Dubai for sure
Maldives
JFK>MXP