🧭 Points Advisor
Ask where to go. It answers from your vault.
The advisor reads your balances, the transfer partners those points can reach, and every live transfer bonus, then plans the trip. Flights, hotels, cruises, or a full itinerary. It names the program, the award price, and the order to do things in.
It will also tell you when the answer is "not with what you have." That is the point. No card pitches, no affiliate detours.
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Ask the advisor
You
Two of us, business class to Tokyo next April, ten days. I've got 364k Amex and 190k Chase. What's the play?
🧭 Points Advisor
The short version
Amex to ANA for the flights, Chase to Hyatt for the hotel. You land both without touching the Avios or Alaska miles.
Flights: ANA Mileage Club, via Amex
- ANA round-trip business, US East Coast to Tokyo, is about 88,000 miles per person on ANA's own metal. Two seats is 176,000 Amex points, leaving you around 188k.
- Transfers take one to three days, so find the seats first. ANA only sells round trips, so book it as one award.
- Backup: Virgin Atlantic Flying Club books the same ANA business seats for about 90,000 round trip per person, and Amex moves there instantly.
Hotel: Park Hyatt Tokyo, via Chase
- Category 8, 40,000 points a standard night. Four nights is 160,000 Chase points, and your 190k covers it with 30k spare.
- Cash rate those dates is usually over $1,000 a night, so you're getting roughly 2.5¢ a point against the 2.05¢ you value Chase at.
- Heads up: Chase to Hyatt drops to 4:3 on October 1. Transfer before then and the 160k math holds. After, four nights runs about 213k Chase and you're short.
What I'd do this week
- Search ANA space for two in April. If it's there, transfer 176k Amex and book.
- Move 160k Chase to Hyatt before October 1 and hold the Park Hyatt on a refundable rate.
- Leave the Avios and Alaska miles alone. That's your positioning-flight fund.
You
And if ANA has nothing?
🧭 Points Advisor
Try Virgin Atlantic next. It books the same ANA seats and sometimes sees space ANA's own members don't. Third option is Air Canada Aeroplan, also an Amex partner, at about 75,000 one way in business on Star Alliance carriers. Nearly double, so only if the dates are fixed. Skip the Chase portal for this one; 176k points at 1.5¢ is a $2,640 flight and you can do far better.
Sample conversation. Award prices are what the programs charged when this was written, September 2026. The live advisor works from your own balances and today's transfer bonuses, of which there are 6 right now.