You can’t convert Chase points to American Airlines points. AA points are only tied to Citibank credit cards.
What the bolded means is that you can get better value for your points by transferring to airline partners. Particularly so if they go into certain foreign carrier buckets and you’re flying international business class.
An example. Last year we went to Spain. We transferred Amex MR points to Iberia Avios at 1:1.4. Business Class on Iberia from Miami to Madrid was 42000 Avios each way off peak. It only took about 30000 Amex MR points to convert to 42000 Avios. For 120000 Amex MR points we flew to Madrid and back in business class pods. A fantastic redemption that you can’t come close to through the Chase or Amex travel portal.
I will admit to using the Chase portal to book hotels in Europe as I have gotten some really good redemptions at very nice (as in a five star hotel in Malaga for 30k points a night) hotels.
James Vowles was interviewed during FP1 and shared some great information regarding cars, setup and performance. It was interesting to hear him say that downforce is easy to adjust but once you add drag it's very difficult to adjust it out.
It's not looking good for this weekend.
Chris Medland@ChrisMedlandF1Personnel told to evacuate the circuit at Imola due to risk of flooding. Fingers crossed it proves only precautionary and everyone is given the all-clear to resume prep at some stage, but safety has to come first #F1
We live in Naples so our options to get down there are different. We can do a charter round trip for $1800 and leave when we want and just walk out on the tarmac and get on the plane without going through TSA from the Naples airport. $1800 covers up to 5 passengers.
I hear you. Sometimes it makes sense to look into charters and pay more. That’s what we’ll do the next time we go to Key West. We did the ferry from Ft. Myers and it sucked so bad.
Chase UR and Amex MR points are the most versatile out there IMO. A lot of people use Capital One points but I think their points ecosystem doesn't transfer to partners as well as Chase and Amex points.