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Personally, I never speculatively buy/transfer. Devaluations are too common in this game to get stuck with a bad redemption. But to each their own
Always been my philosophy too. But 37k free points made me double take.
So I’m in the same position. I typically use my BILT points for Hyatt and would normally agree with the two posts above on not transferring unless you have a specific flight to book.
But Alaska redemption values are significantly better than the other domestic carriers, except maybe American. And I fly frequently enough to know I’ll have plenty of opportunities to get good use of those points. Worst case scenario - I’ll book a round trip to Tokyo for 40K points total (factoring in platinum transfer bonus).
Also assume you should have plenty of good points redemption availability since DFW is the AA hub and so many oneworld partners fly there