TFC answers, how to transfer American Express points (Membership Rewards) to Lufthansa's Miles & More

One of the most frequently asked questions in recent months certainly relates to Lufthansa's Miles & More loyalty program, and it concerns the possibility of transferring points accumulated from daily spending made through the use of American Express cards to Lufthansa's frequent flyer program.

Is it possible to transfer Membership Rewards points to the Miles&More loyalty program?

The answer is yes, but not in a direct way.

In fact, American Express' partner companies do not include the Lufthansa Group, this means that there is no direct transition between the two programs as occurs instead for the other 10 carriers that have a partnership With the Italian branch of the centurion company.

So since you cannot convert directly from MR to M&M you have to do triangulation, that is, move points to a program that in turn allows you to transfer points to other programs.

The best solution is definitely to move the Membership Rewards points towards the Marriott's Bonvoy loyalty program and from here Move them to all those programs, Miles & More included, which do not have a direct link to Amex or to which there is no possibility of direct accumulation.

When does it make sense to take advantage of this possibility?

In 99% of cases it NEVER makes sense, this is because in the double conversion you bleed out and in the end you will find yourself with a handful of points in hand and a flood of wasted points. However, there is one condition when this solution is useful And that is when you need to activate the program. In fact, many FFs have rules that require users, before doing certain actions, to have to have an active account.

Active, however, means not only having been created, but having recorded at least one movement within a given time frame. Here, then, is where transferring a handful of points to the card that is to be "woken up" opens the door to all actions that would otherwise be blocked.

Attention this action does not count toward avoiding expiration of points due to inactivity, so it is not needed to save points with only a few days to go.

Is there an alternative solution?

The answer is YES and it is called Singapore Airlines, the Asian airline is a member of the same alliance as Lufthansa and the other German group airlines. So there is an opportunity to redeem LH award tickets using Krisflyer points.

Of course the inventory will not be the same, but is currently the only way to take advantage of MR points to fly the German group's aircraft.

How to accumulate Miles & More points in Italy

For the past few months there has been on the Italian market a credit card that turns every euro spent into points from the German loyalty program. The Miles & More Gold Mastercard has two incredible benefits the first is to accumulate 1 point for every 2 euros spent with the card, but more importantly it has the advantage that all holders, lacking status, They can sleep soundly by forgetting the expiration of points.

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