Citi ThankYou points can now be transferred to JetBlue points at a rate of 1,000 Citi ThankYou Points : 500 JetBlue points or 1,000:800 depending on the card you hold. For Citi ThankYou® Premier, Citi Prestige® and Citi Chairman® cardmember point transfers to TrueBlue, 1,000 Points = 800 TrueBlue points. For Citi ThankYou Preferred or Citi Forward cardmember point transfers to TrueBlue, 1,000 Points = 500 TrueBlue points
The only other flexible points that transfer to JetBlue are American Express Membership Rewards, they transfer at a rate of 1,000 : 800. JetBlue points are worth a fixed value of 0.97¢ to 1.89¢ depending on the flights you redeem for. This means that by transferring your Citi ThankYou points you’d be getting less than 1¢ per point on the high end. You’d be better off just using your Citi ThankYou points to book the travel that way. Because of that, this isn’t an attractive transfer partner at all. Sears Shop Your Way Rewards points are also now a transfer partner of Citi ThankYou Points.
Citi ThankYou points can also be transferred to the following partners:
| Emirates | EVA Air Infinity MileageLands | Malaysia Airlines Enrich |
| AirFrance-KLM Flying Blue | Etihad Guest | Qatar Airways Privilege Club |
| Asia Miles | Accor Hotels (1:0.5) | Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer |
| Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus | Virgin Atlantic Flying Club | Qantas |
| JetBlue (1:0.8 rate, 0.5 with Preferred) | Sears SYWRP (1:12) | Jet Airways JetPrivilege |
| Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles | Avianca LifeMiles | Club Premier Aeromexico |
| Choice Hotels (1:2) | Leading Hotels of the World (5:1) |
What’s most interesting about this announcement are the different transfer levels based on what cards you hold. I wonder if Citi is planning on offering something similar on other transfer partners.
Nothing can beat SW companion pass. SW covers almost all the routes of jet blue.
what if I have the TY preferred and prestige card combined. which one will citi pick?
I believe it should pick the higher rate, just like you redeem the points earned from checking through prestige portal.
I was wondering about what bY said as well. It sounds like TY Preferred’s only transfer partner is JB.
I thought you could not transfer to partners with the Citi Preferred alone? Did This change?
In fact, I had to buy some MR at 2.5 cents to transfer at 1000:800 and it was still a savings.
Although it may not happen consistently, there are often times JetBlue points are worth 2 cents or more. The relationship between revenue and award price is certainly inconsistent, with high cash prices sometimes at low award prices and vice versa.
One real life example: a one- way (next day) ticket priced at $488 which I booked for 11,000 points plus $82.
And if you have the JetBlue card, you get 10% of points used rebated.
I know it’s not the prevailing wisdom but it has been my experience.
The rate is actually available at 1000:800 like Amex MR points – if you have an annual fee TY product – but presumably without the dreadful excise tax!
I thought that AMEX lost the Jet Blue contract to Barclays.
If correct, I don’t think that AMEX MR points transfer to Jet Blue any longer.
Couldn’t Amex just buy TrueBlue points from Jet Blue?
It shows pretty clearly on Amex’s website that you can transfer 250 MR points to 200 JetBlue TrueBlue points
They did lose that card partnership, they can still buy miles from JetBlue directly though – obviously Barclaycard didn’t sign an exclusive deal.
Citi ThankYou Points also transfer to jetBlue at a 1,000:800 ratio. I just commented on this post via Facebook with a screenshot.
Depends on what cards you hold: For Citi ThankYou® Premier, Citi Prestige® and Citi Chairman® cardmember point transfers to TrueBlue, 1,000 Points = 800 TrueBlue points. For Citi ThankYou Preferred or Citi Forward cardmember point transfers to TrueBlue, 1,000 Points = 500 TrueBlue points
Sweet thanks for clarifying!
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I didn’t find out about this on Flyertalk, I have alerts set up for that page.