Points transfer partners: which points reach American, Delta and Alaska

Citi ThankYou Points transfer to American AAdvantage, American Express Membership Rewards to Delta SkyMiles, and Bilt Rewards to Alaska's Atmos Rewards. Find the award seat first and transfer after, because a transfer can't be undone.

Reviewed September 30, 2026.

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Transfers are one way and final. Once bank points become airline miles they can't come back, and the seat you wanted can be gone by the time they land. Confirm the award space is there, then transfer.

Who reaches whom, as of August 2026

Ratios and partnerships change without notice. Treat this as the shape of the market and confirm the number on the program's own transfer page before you move anything.

Transferable currencies that reach American AAdvantage, Delta SkyMiles and Atmos Rewards
Airline program	Bank currency	Hotel currency
American AAdvantage	Citi ThankYou Points, 1:1 from Strata Elite, Strata Premier and Prestige; 1,000 to 700 from no-annual-fee cards	Marriott Bonvoy, 3:1
Delta SkyMiles	American Express Membership Rewards, 1:1	Marriott Bonvoy, 3:1
Atmos Rewards (Alaska)	Bilt Rewards, 1:1; Diners Club Club Rewards	Marriott Bonvoy, 3:1, with a 5,000-point bonus per 60,000 transferred

Three consequences follow from that table, and they're the whole planning problem. American Express reaches Delta and neither of the other two. Citi is the bank route into American. Bilt and Diners Club are the only card currencies Alaska lists for Atmos Rewards, and Marriott Bonvoy is the general-purpose back door into all three.

Chase Ultimate Rewards and Capital One miles are excellent currencies with deep partner lists, but as of August 2026 neither transfers to American, Delta or Atmos. If those are the airlines you fly, that's an argument for where to put spend, not for chasing a transfer that doesn't exist.

The Amex to Hawaiian route into Alaska closed in June 2025, before HawaiianMiles was folded into Atmos Rewards, and no equivalent replaced it. Any guide still describing that path is out of date.

The order that keeps a transfer safe

Speculative transfers are how people end up with 90,000 miles in a program they don't fly. Four steps, in this order.

Step 1

Find the seat

Confirm the award space exists on the exact flight and date, in the cabin you want. Space is the scarce thing; points are not.

Step 2

Price it in the program

Check what that seat costs in miles and cash today, in the program you'd transfer to. Two programs can price the same seat very differently.

Step 3

Check the transfer speed

Some transfers are instant, some take days. A slow transfer against a single open seat is a bet, so treat instant partners and slow ones differently.

Step 4

Transfer the exact amount

Move what the booking needs, not a round number. Leftover miles in a program you rarely use are the most common way value quietly evaporates.

2LNR exists to make step 1 quick: an award matrix across more than 20 airlines, with a calendar per route, plus alerts on Pro when space opens on a route you're watching. See how to check award availability for the workflow, and when award seats open up for the timing.

Transfer bonuses, and when they're worth waiting for

Every so often a bank adds a limited-time bonus on transfers to one airline partner. A bonus is real money, and it's also the most common reason people transfer points they had no booking for.

A bonus doesn't create a seat. A 30 percent bonus into a program with nothing bookable on your dates is a 30 percent discount on a mistake.
Wait only if the seat will wait. Long-haul premium space on a popular date rarely survives a month-long bonus window. Space you can see now beats a better ratio later.
Bonuses favor known plans. If you already have a booking that needs 60,000 miles next quarter, that's exactly the case a bonus is for.
Marriott's bulk rule is its own bonus. Transferring in 60,000-point increments earns 5,000 bonus miles each time on most airline partners, Atmos Rewards included but not American or Delta, which changes the arithmetic of small transfers.

Transfer questions

What points transfer to American Airlines AAdvantage?

As of August 2026 the bank route into AAdvantage is Citi ThankYou Points: 1:1 from Citi's premium cards (Strata Elite, Strata Premier and Prestige) and 1,000 to 700 from its no-annual-fee cards. The hotel route is Marriott Bonvoy at 3:1. American Express Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards and Capital One miles do not transfer to AAdvantage. Confirm the current ratio on the issuer's transfer page before moving points, because these partnerships change without notice.

Can I transfer Amex points to Delta?

Yes. American Express Membership Rewards transfers to Delta SkyMiles at 1:1 and, as of August 2026, Amex is the major bank currency that reaches Delta. Marriott Bonvoy also transfers to SkyMiles at 3:1. What Amex does not reach is American AAdvantage or Atmos Rewards, so an Amex-heavy stash pairs naturally with Delta flying.

Which points transfer to Alaska Atmos Rewards?

Bilt Rewards transfers to Atmos Rewards at 1:1, and as of September 2026 the only other card currency Alaska lists is Diners Club Club Rewards. Marriott Bonvoy transfers at 3:1 with a 5,000-point bonus for every 60,000 points moved. The old workaround of sending Amex points to Hawaiian and onward to Alaska ended in June 2025 when Amex dropped Hawaiian as a partner.

Can I transfer miles between American, Delta and Alaska?

No. These are competing programs, and miles do not move between them in either direction, alliance membership notwithstanding. The only currencies that reach more than one of them are Marriott Bonvoy and, indirectly, whichever bank points you hold. Plan the earning side around the airline you actually fly.

Should I transfer points before or after finding award space?

After, without exception on a specific booking. Transfers are irreversible and often instant in one direction only, so the sequence that protects you is: confirm the seat exists on your flight and date, price it in the program, check how long that transfer takes, then move the exact number of points the booking needs.

Do transferred miles count toward elite status?

Generally no. Transferred miles are redeemable currency; status is earned from flying and, in some programs, from co-branded card spend and partner activity. American's Loyalty Points and Atmos Rewards status points each have their own qualifying rules, so check the program's status page rather than assuming a transfer helps.

Sources

Program facts on this page were checked on August 2, 2026, and the Citi, American Express, Chase, Capital One, Bilt, Marriott and Atmos Rewards transfer facts were checked again on September 30, 2026, on each program's own page where it publishes them. Transfer partners and ratios are set by the issuers and airlines and can change at any time; the issuer's own transfer page is always the authority.

American Airlines: earn on hotel stays American's own conversion table, with 30,000 Marriott Bonvoy points for 10,000 AAdvantage miles. (accessed September 30, 2026)
Citi: Citi Strata Premier Card Citi's own card page, which lists points transfer to American Airlines; the Citi ratios above come from the Upgraded Points report. (accessed September 30, 2026)
Upgraded Points: Citi ThankYou adds AAdvantage transfers for no-fee cards That Citi's no-annual-fee cards transfer to AAdvantage at 1,000 to 700, and the Strata Elite, Strata Premier and Prestige at 1:1. (accessed September 30, 2026)
Delta: convert partner points to miles Delta's own list of the points that convert to SkyMiles: Membership Rewards at up to one mile per point, Marriott Bonvoy at 60,000 points for 20,000 miles, and no Chase, Citi or Capital One card program. (accessed September 30, 2026)
American Express: Membership Rewards transfer partners American Express's own partner list, with Delta SkyMiles at 1,000 points to 1,000 miles and neither AAdvantage nor Atmos Rewards on it. (accessed September 30, 2026)
Alaska Airlines: Atmos Rewards That Atmos Rewards is the loyalty program of both Alaska and Hawaiian. (accessed September 30, 2026)
Bilt Rewards: transfer partners Bilt's own list of its transfer partners, the source for the Bilt to Atmos Rewards row. (accessed September 30, 2026)
Alaska Airlines: Atmos Rewards everyday partners Alaska's own list, where Bilt points transfer 1:1 to Atmos Rewards, Diners Club Club Rewards convert to Atmos Rewards points, and no other card currency appears. (accessed September 30, 2026)
AwardWallet: Amex transfers to Hawaiian ended June 30, 2025 That American Express ended transfers to Hawaiian Airlines on June 30, 2025. (accessed September 30, 2026)
Chase: Sapphire Preferred card Chase's own list of Ultimate Rewards airline and hotel transfer partners, which has no American, Delta or Alaska program on it. (accessed September 30, 2026)
Capital One: miles transfer partners Capital One's own list of its airline and hotel transfer partners, which has no American, Delta or Alaska program on it. (accessed September 30, 2026)
Marriott Bonvoy: convert points to airline miles Marriott's own table: 3:1 to AAdvantage, SkyMiles and Atmos Rewards, and a 5,000-mile bonus per 60,000 points that doesn't apply to AAdvantage or SkyMiles. (accessed September 30, 2026)

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