The Offer
- American Express is offering a 25% transfer bonus when you transfer your Membership Rewards points to JetBlue. These points usually transfer 250:200. Under this promotion they transfer at 250:250
The Fine Print
- Valid until 11/30/23
Our Verdict
Been a long time since we’ve seen a transfer bonus from AmEx to JetBlue. Previous transfer bonuses were as follows:
- October 21st – December 21st, 2019: 25%
- June 10th – unknown end date, 2019: 40-50% [ymmv]
- August 1st – October 1st, 2018: 25% bonus [targeted]
- February 26th – March 25th, 2018: 10-30% bonus [targeted]
- November 1st – November 31st, 2017: 25% bonus
- May 1st – May 31st, 2017: 25% bonus
- August 15th – September 15th, 2014: 25% bonus
- June 12th, 2012 – June 17th, 2012: 30% bonus
JetBlue award flights are tied to the cash price of a flight. You can view a full list of current and previous American Express bonuses from all travel partners by clicking here.
This “offer” only gets you to a 1 to 1 transfer ratio which American Express should offer all the time. Even then, it’s lower than the Citi Thankyou transfer rate because Amex passes on the 6% excuse fee for domestic airlines that Citi and the other programs don’t. Even if not for the better Amex partners or that you can simply engineer a better transfer using Amex Business plat, this is a hard pass.
Being in NYC JetBlue is my go-to airline and I prefer to use points to fly whenever possible. But since I rarely get more than 1.4x value for my points transfers I find the best way to buy JetBlue flights is using by Biz Platinum to pay with points for 1.54x per point.
Don’t you have to select JetBlue as your preferred airline for this, and then doesn’t it have to be First or Business class? And then it’s a 35% bonus? How are you getting to 1.54x per point?
At 1:1, still not sure if this is a good bonus. I do not think I’ll take this one.
I personally do not think JetBlue mile/point is any higher than other mile/point system.
Flew JetBlue last week for the first time in 10 years. Horrible experience. May have been the worst domestic flight I’ve ever been on. The crew was unbelievably rude to everyone. Antiquated IFE barely worked. PA announcements were inaudible. Amazing how they went from one of the best domestic airlines to one of the worst.
I’m sorry for your bad experience, but if it’s your first JetBlue in 10 years, I’d avoid such sweeping generalizations. I fly the SFO BOS route every now and then, and my experience is the polar opposite of yours — brand new FE + free wifi; friendly crew to the point they were basically shoving drinks/snacks in our faces.
I haven’t flown other airlines enough to say whether JetBlue is the best, but I can confidently say it’s definitely not the worst, if my experiences with United (puke) is anything to go by.
I’m on 30 or 40 flights a year, and jet blue is not bad at all. I mostly fly aa or united due to location considerations. Don’t let one bad flight crew shut you out of an airline for good.
Been waiting for a transfer bonus to Hawaiian for months now. Was really hoping October we’d see it going by historical trends.
Didn’t we JUST have one?
That was with Chase, not Amex.
Being inexperienced with cc vs airline point valuations, I’m unclear as to the verdict on this transfer bonus.