Rove Miles has added another transfer partner. It’s their second one this month. They just keep building the program, which is fantastic.
Rove miles now transfer to Qantas Frequent Flyer at 1:1. Through August 14, 2026 they’re running a 50% transfer bonus to this new partner. Rove even supports live Qantas award availability searches on its website which is super-convenient.
The unique value in Qantas transfers is two-fold:
- Qantas offers better award availability on its own flights to passengers using these miles than they offer to partner programs like American AAdvantage, Alaska Mileage Plan or British Airways Club.
- They have some unique partners you can redeem with like El Al and Aircalin (the latter restricted to Qantas codeshares to Noumea)
On July 1, Rove added Frontier. Last month it was Air Canada Aeroplan. The month before that it was Virgin. The month before that it was SAS. And the month before that they added JAL.
Here are Rove’s transfer partners now:
- Star Alliance: Air India, Lufthnasa, THAI, Turkish, Air Canada
- oneworld: Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Qatar, Japan Airlines, Qantas
- SkyTeam: Aeromexico, Air France KLM, Vietnam Airlines, Scandinavian, Virgin Atlantic (and Virgin Red)
- Non-alliance: Etihad, Hainan Airlines, Frontier Airlines
- Hotel: Accor
As this point they’re the only one with Lufthansa as a transfer partner, and Lufthansa Miles & More has much better premium class availability for its own members than partners (and opens up the possibility of Lufthansa first class redemptions more than a few days prior to flight).
Qantas is more niche for most of you than a game changer but I actually happen to have real success with them – I have family in Australia and they often don’t care which flight they travel on to the States (although Sydney – Dallas or Sydney – Auckland – New York JFK can often be preferred). If nothing is available I set up award availability alerts for all the Qantas flights between Australia and the U.S. over a couple of days. Around 60 days out something invariably opens for at least a couple of seats in business class.
Not really ‘into’ Rove, but am a fan of QF’s program, especially since it’s easy to transfer into it (from, say, Amex, without excise fees); however, it used to be more lucrative when there was availability in long-haul J/F on QF, EK, etc., yet, these days, it’s best for domestic (AU) premium on QF. So, if you enjoy going ‘Down Under’ and like those recliners on a 2-hour ride in their 737 between SYD-ADL/MEL/BNE… yippie.
I was in the USA two weeks ago and saw quite a lot of Qantas biz and first class space to Australia back. Including two passengers.
Almost no fees and low miles using American miles compared to using Qantas points though.
Alas my simply miles stash is about to run out. Any other good ways to get American miles other than cc spend? Their price point to buy them is terrible.
@Mick — Oh, ok, so, wide-open availability, huh. I guess everything is ‘great again’ with Qantas… *throws away entire playbook*
As for AA miles, you probably already know that you can transfer Citi ThankYou points to AA at 1:1. (BILT used to have 1:1, but Citi got exclusivity about a year ago, starting July 2025). That’s the best AA-point-pipeline these days, beyond flying with them/partners, or using a co-branded AA credit card. Do a few Citi Strata Elite, Citi Strata Premier, etc. SUBs, and that’ll get you nearly 200K+ AA points sorta quickly.
@Mick – other than SUBs with Citi, if you have any AA status and any AA credit card, AA Hotels offers a ton of miles, and it’s even better when paired with the AA Exec card for 10x on the spend as well. Simplymiles has been very uncompelling as of late. AA eshopping portal is OK, but no home run deals on there lately either.
Rove sucks. Takes forever for miles to post. If the vendor doesn’t honor the clickthru and purchase, they won’t post the miles as a courtesy unlike Rakuten. Customer service is meh.