Allison Pohle

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · How to Give Frequent-Flier Miles as a Holiday Gift · 1 Dec 2021 podcast

So you would be transferring them into the other person's airline loyalty account. voice-verified

So airlines do have the option to transfer points to someone else, but it usually involves pretty hefty fees. voice-verified

Another way to do this is if you have a travel credit card, they have programs that allow you to use points for a variety of different airline partners. voice-verified

So in this case, you would move your points from your travel credit card portal over to the airline loyalty program. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

So it's often not very easy to transfer credit card points to someone else. voice-verified

Usually you have to share an address with this person or they have to be an authorized user on your credit card. voice-verified

What's a lot easier is for the gift giver to transfer their credit card points into an airline miles account and then use those miles as the gift. voice-verified

Airlines present an option where you can transfer miles from your own loyalty program account to someone else's loyalty program account. voice-verified

to do so there are fees associated so say i wanted to transfer 5 000 miles to someone else i'd have to pay to transfer the miles and then i'd also have to pay a processing fee so airlines charge per the number of miles transferred and then they charge a transaction fee to transfer the miles to someone else instead you can avoid those transfer fees and the processing fee by just booking a ticket directly voice-verified

in someone else's name. voice-verified

So you would use your own miles, but instead of booking the ticket for yourself, you would book it for someone else. voice-verified

And that could still be subject to the carrier fees and taxes that come from booking a ticket with miles, but you would avoid the transfer and processing fees that you would incur if you moved the miles to someone else's account. voice-verified

That's okay. voice-verified

Instead, you can gift them the idea of the flight or make them something that says, hey, I want to get you a flight and then work with them to nail down an itinerary and dates. voice-verified

It could. voice-verified

Sometimes people, you know, give lists to family members and say, voice-verified

this is what I want. voice-verified

And so they're not always a huge surprise with every gift. voice-verified

But in this case, the element of surprise could be that they don't have to pay for the flight, which would be much appreciated in some circumstances. voice-verified

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