NY Based - should I go with Asia Miles, Velocity or Krisflyer?

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I am a NY-based Australian who is hoping to travel back to Sydney on my vacation (either via LAX or HKG).

I currently have about 90K Amex points from my AMEX explorer card, 20K Krisflyer and have signed up to the US SPG Amex, and am expecting 30k points in the next 6 months.

Traditionally, I have only flown oneworld (I recently cleared by Qantas FF account) and was wondering whether I should:

  1. Transfer my AMEX, Krisflyer and SPG points (noting that the redemptions on velocity do not seem great)

  2. Transfer all my points to Krisflyer and try and redeem Delta/Virgin Australia flights (I am not keen to fly via Frankfurt and Singapore)

  3. Write-off my 20k SG Krisflyer points and convert to Asia Miles and try and claim a Qantas flight or Cathay Pacific/American Airlines flight?

Thank you so much!

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Hi,

I am trying to gather as much info out of what you included in your question here. Apologies if I have mistaken anything.

Having no idea what class of flight you have in mind, I am just going with economy; but the principles are similar in general.

Seeing as you do not want to go via FRA or SIN, you could:

  • Transfer to MRG->SPG-> JAL Mileage Bank (Fly JAL, AA, CX)
  • Transfer to MRG->SPG-> ANA Mileage Club (Fly Air Canada, Hawaiian Air, OZ, United)
Or you could transfer all to Krisflyer and redeem Air Canada, OZ or United Air.

MRG->SPG-> CX works too (fly oneworld airlines similar to JAL above).

Really depends what you are after, how award availabilities look like.

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just as another option… I’m not sure how far your points balance will stretch.
But you can transfer your points MRG & SPG to Virgin Atlantic miles at 1:1 there was a 30% bonus running for MRG.
Have read a few blogs lately apparently is incredible value to use Virgin Atlantic points for redemption with ANA (mainly first class) which can be done JFK-Tokyo-SYD
Here is one blog out of the few I’ve as it helps explain how to do so.

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