[Giacomo]

Hi friends,
I’m seeking help using my AMEX points for airline tickets to Europe. I have 170K AMEX points, and my wife has 130K AMEX points.

We are looking to fly from RDU to VCE and return via CDG to RDU. How do we go about using our points to travel together for a family of three?

It seems like we can’t combine our points today, nor can we transfer them to one airline account.

It is our first time using our AMEX points, and your help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Maite]

With Flying Blue ( AirFrance and KLM) you can make A Flying Blue Family account.

Each family member will have to make separate accounts and then connect them.

You’ll be able to “combine “ points that way.

[Megan]

Put THE TRIP on a a self and focus on THE SKILL. Award Searching is a learned skill and you need to invest the time and focus to learn the skill.

Always start with one way searches not round trips.
Here’s my standard spiel on the first steps you need to take to build your award search muscle:

To build your redemption skills and search literacy, take the following steps.

This building ideally would have started soon after opening your first flexible points earning card.

First step is to know thy transfer partners.
Log into your flexible points accounts and make a list of each partner loyalty program your flexible points transfer to.

This is list is your script. Focus on these programs and only these.

Work down the list and open loyalty accounts with each program. Every single one.

Once you have done that. Work down the list learning to run searches on each program.

Do it systematically. One by one with focus. People often go off the rails when they try to do everything at once.

We are here to help along the way to get you unstuck or check your work.

[Leemay]

If you just want it to be cheap, use Canada Airline Aeroplan, your Amex points can be transferred there, depends on when you are leaving, it’s about 40K points per person.

You’ll have to buy two separate bookings vs round trip for all of you.

[Holly]

We usually use Air France to Europe. They’re an Amex partner. You might want to consider alternate airports for more options.

For example, we live in Indianapolis but frequently fly out of Chicago with points.

[Endri]

Flying to Venice is a bad idea using points, and also out of Raleigh.
You will have connections. Points are best used for direct flights.

Try Raleigh to somewhere else in Europe direct.

And Paris may have direct flights to RDU, though I doubt it, that airport is small.

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