I'm going to show you how to book a mega-award with seven stops to South America with Asia Miles. You already have Asia Miles because they are a transfer partner of Citi ThankYou Points, AMEX Membership Rewards, and SPG Starpoints.

Asia Miles can be used to book any oneworld airline's award space plus space on its partners Aer Lingus and Alaska Airlines.

Asia Miles charges fuel surcharges on award tickets when the equivalent cash tickets would have fuel surcharges.

With the 25% transfer bonus from Citi ThankYou Points to Virgin Atlantic miles, one way

Yesterday, I looked at How to Fly Singapore First Class and Suites Class from the United States to Europe or Asia. Today, I will look at the actual award space for 1-3 people in Suites Class.

The AT&T Access More Card from Citi comes with a $650 credit toward the purchase of a new smartphone after $2,000 in purchases in the first three months and 3x points on online purchases at retail and travel sites.

The $650 credit is enough to get a brand new iPhone 6 for free, and the 3x points on online purchases can turn into 4.8% back toward the purchase of American Airlines flights.
Quick Facts

Sign Up Bonus: A free phone (up to $650) after spending $2,000 in the first three months
Category Bonuses: 3x ThankYou Points on

The Citi ThankYou® Premier Card comes with 40,000 bonus ThankYou Points after $3,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening. Those 40,000 points are now worth $500 toward airfare, hotels, cruises, and car rentals (25% more.)

I went into my thankyou.com account to search for car rentals, and the results showed a 1.25 cents per point valuation.

It's fantastic that Citi made car, hotel, and and cruise redemptions more valuable, but I don't expect to use this new benefit.

The Citi ThankYou® Premier Card changed its 3x categories to gas and travel on April 19. I covered just how broad those categories are in this post at the time.

Gas and travel purchases that earn 3 ThankYou Points per dollar include:

airlines
hotels
car rental agencies
travel agencies
gas stations
commuter transportation
taxi/limousines
passenger railways
cruise lines
bridge and road tolls
parking lots/garages
campgrounds and trailer parks
time shares
bus lines
motor home/RV Rental and boat rentals

At the time of the change, I hoped that Uber fell into the taxi/limousines category.

Citi ThankYou Points transfer 1:1 to 12 types of airline miles. If you transfer your points to miles, they become those miles with all the related rules, restrictions, and award charts. Transferring ThankYou Points to miles is the main alternative to using them like cash toward any flight.

Two weeks ago, several blogs reported that transfers from Citi ThankYou Points to Etihad Guest miles made before May 15, 2015 would have a 25% bonus.

To me, this was huge news because this was the first transfer bonus of Citi ThankYou Points to airline miles.

You can share your Citi ThankYou Points with anyone else who has a ThankYou account completely free of charge. This is way better than Chase Ultimate Rewards and American Express Membership Rewards, which only allow sharing with a spouse.

I've already covered how to combine all your own ThankYou Points into one account. That way if you get both the Citi ThankYou® Premier Card and Citi Prestige® Card, which offers 40,000 bonus points after spending $4,000 in the first three months, you can combine points from both cards into one account. Sharing extends that even further.